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Yep. Definitely check out the Super Missile Attack/high score save kit. Well worth the money.

The wife picked one up today. VID_20200917_165358.mp4

Cendejas, I don't care if someone simply lights their money on fire. It's theirs. Tacos and fun aside, the question we've posed from the very initial announcement of the Ataribox was how a company the size of the current Atari planned to design, develop, release, and support a console of any marketplace relevance. We posed it here, we posed it on the Atari and Atari VCS Facebook pages, and we posed it on their Twitter and Reddit feeds. We never got an answer, but we were labeled haters and trolls and generally banned for daring to ask. We're now seeing the obvious answer to that question. I'm glad it's worked out for you, but it's not remotely what was pitched at the beginning. No, I didn't back it, but I'll bet plenty who did are wishing they'd listened to the haters and trolls.

Is this gonna be the hill the most rabid backers have chosen to die on? "Yes, it's looking like the VCS is going to be every bit the marketplace failure everyone predicted, but it fits my needs and I'm still stoked?"

We know three people have them...CJ Melendez and Mario Kroll of UberStrategist, and Shelly Murphy, who apparently got one because she's trying to develop the Atari hotels and whose kid posted a pic on Twitter. The two PR flacks couldn't wait to put theirs through their paces that first weekend, and then we never heard about them again.

I used to check that page out every now and again, but good grief. Most of the people still posting there seem to have enjoyed a healthy appetite for paint chips as kids.

I call it an absolute failure because at least to me, it's an absolutely redundant piece of hardware. There's nothing it does that I can't already do, which is the yardstick by which I buy new hardware.

I'd imagine if Sega released an underpowered pc in a vaguely Genesis shaped case that focused on middling streaming services and crypto without displaying any advanced, exclusive versions of classic properties weeks before shipping, Sega fans would be bitching, too.

Change "Chinese car companies" to "French software publishers" and that's literally what happened.

Let's face it...the VCS is going to need more storage at the bare minimum as well, and more memory should be on the shopping list, too.

It's not that Plex support is a bad thing, it's just the latest in a long line of so what's.

Definitely an odd time to kill the thread. Victories and healthy servings of humble pie are going to be dished out in quantity in just a few weeks.

At this point, the unhinged fans/investors are an even more entertaining spectacle than the VCS train wreck itself. The part where Dubs wonders if he's been shadow banned because so much of his content has been deleted is especially poignant. 😂

Good God. I've now seen what true desperation looks like.

Even more damning, their one year return has been hovering around -30%. Investors are obviously less confident now than they were a year ago. Unless you snapped up a bunch when it tanked a couple of months ago to .17, you're going to have a lot of ground to make up if you've held the stock for a while.

They're partnering with Klarna. A sleazy "videogame company" partnering with and even sleazier credit/financing company. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Looking good! Love me some Gyruss.

From a pure production standpoint, it would cost a hell of a lot more to print specific 400/800/Onyx/Walnut/Collector's/whatever boxes, like this appears to be. That's the kind of stuff usually relegated to an endflap sticker, especially by a tiny company like Atari.

People have been clamoring for the next installments of 3-D Tic Tac Toe and Surround for decades.

And perhaps you missed my entire post. One company is historically, demonstrably, a piece of shit. The other, at least to this point, doesn't appear to be. I'm not having wet dreams about either of these consoles, but your touting of Atari's transparency over this three year process is laughable. This is why you get laughed at. Spend your money how you want. Enjoy your VCS. But spare us your martyrdom tears around here.

Wow. I don't care one way or the other about the Amico. As a Day 1 backer of the VCS though, did you not see the 11 month span where they completely abandoned their Facebook page? That was likely while they were switching PR companies from the ineffective Rain Factory to the equally ineffective UberStrategist. They routinely broke Indiegogo's update frequency rules, and also routinely skirted them with useless "updates" like potential front applique treatments or virtually identical updates spread over two posts a month apart. As far as I know, Tallarico doesn't have a history of deleting posts or banning users for nothing more than inconvenient questions. Tallarico doesn't have a history of non-payment of developers and contractors stretching back far before Fergal Mac or Rob Wyatt. Tallarico doesn't have a history of faking gameplay and quietly adding a disclaimer afterward. The Amico has had a vision from its initial announcement that hasn't wavered in the face of developer disinterest. Get down off your cross. I have no interest in either machine, but if you want to champion a POS organization like Chesnais' "Atari," don't have the temerity to feign indignation at the reactions from those of us who know these guys.

Won't happen...Thunderbird won't let that go. Gotta pony up for a real copy or go pirate on Etsy.

Good news Except for their extended history of non-payment to contractors and vendors, as well as abandonware releases. Yeah, I'd just as soon keep a few of these types aboard. Nothing highlights the complete disconnect from reality of the truly fanatical backer like the old chestnuts of "You're not a fan! You weren't there! Atari WAS gaming! Atari's back!" They aren't seeing the pros and cons of a product. They're defending a religion.

I don't understand your perverse fetish with being wrong, F1JV, but you're as obnoxious here as you are elsewhere. I've found it helps if I read your posts in William Shatner's voice, though.