racerx

Get the fcuk out, dude.

I did play it at release. I didn't buy until three years later, when I picked up three consoles at KayBee Toys for $25 each. As I mentioned, I have a complete boxed retail collection virtually all of which I paid pennies on the dollar for, before prices got stupid recently. If you play Rebooteroids or most of the other Reboot titles, check the credits for racerx... I've done tons of testing work. The point that you're absolutely missing is that everyone circa 1995 knew the Jaguar was going to flop, hard. Everyone that paid any attention knew Atari was circling the drain and didn't have the money or resources to properly launch a console or attract major developers. That doesn't mean we hated Atari (which at that time, was at least the tattered remnants of the real Atari). It just meant people weren't fools. No way in hell was I going to pay full retail for that...it was obviously destined for clearance bins. Sound familiar?

So you couldn't spot a DOA system twenty-four years ago, either. Whodathunkit, indeed.

Because..."true" ATARI VCS 400/800 fans...don't make such "sensible" decisions...just us "haters." Mattell. TT. 🌮 Fixed it. 🌮

I was born in '71. I have huge warm fuzzies for Atari. Almost half my arcade machines are Atari. I still have my original heavy sixer. Hell, I've got a complete Jaguar boxed collection. On the other hand, I've got zero nostalgia for Infogrames, no matter what they choose to call themselves, or what IP they purchase. This is all thoroughly dead horse material here, though. If all you need is a meaningless brand name, good for you. Atari SA gets no automatic attention or love from most of us, because they have nothing to do with the Atari that we grew up with.

Worried? No. I've got over $20k in my home arcade. I just picked up a $2000 gun today. I don't typically use money as a pathetic flex, because I'm not a douche. That doesn't mean I just light money on fire.

Excessive use of ellipses, full capitalization of Atari, use of entire ATARI VCS 400/800 moniker, unfounded optimism... I'm guessing F1JV/Tamicos/whatever has joined our illustrious ranks.

Because there's no software people at Atari. Of course, there's no hardware people either. Someone else makes a game that vaguely resembles one of Atari's 40-year-old titles, pays the licensing fee, and out it craps. This is how we get drek like Asteroids: Outpost, Haunted House: Cryptic Graves, or Night Driver. "Atari" doesn't have any creatives in place at all...they only care about collecting those sweet, sweet licensing fees.

I think TXEntertainment, the Payback guys, said they got one.

Everything else aside, I've never had a single problem with any first party wireless controller.

Just felt like quoting this a year later, as Atari SA sits at .27 and Dubs put an order in for more. You're right...Atari isn't going anywhere. 😂

"Once we can track down someone that will pinkie promise to only say nice things about us, we might find an extra VCS laying around somewhere."

Not surprising, considering I got banned simply for quoting their infamous "summer has just begun" games non-announcement last year.

That's certainly one take, but generally Atari's credited with trying to salvage that fiasco, not causing it. https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=272162

They apparently don't bother paying their Kenyan folks either.

Is that the eagerly awaited new issue of Atari Age Magazine™?

Last I knew (and atarivcs.com still says) the 400 has 4 GB and the 800 has 8GB, hence the model numbers.

I think most will be happy (or at least claim to be happy) just having the console with its light up logo in their hands. I've said it before, but what it does or doesn't do is of secondary importance at best. They've got a new Atari console! They win! Atari's back! There are about 10,000 or so of these people. There aren't many more, we saw that with the way the IGG campaign tapered off to nothing. So again, good for them...but there isn't much more market space for a redundant piece of hardware. I can easily be proven wrong, with the announcements of new, compelling, exclusive titles. I think we all know the odds of that happening, though.

I love homebrewers and indie developers and am honored to count quite a few as friends. But I'm not going to get excited that a $2.99, already available mobile game is going to be a launch title on Atari's $300 PC/console hybrid. I'm also not going to get heated over a guy learning to make games. Great for Adam Nickerson, but that isn't a system draw. These are typically the games that clog a console's eShop. I'm not a fanboy, I'm a consumer. But even if I was a rabid homer for Atari SA, their mishandling and dishonesty with the project would've turned me off. If I was a completely neutral consumer, they've done nothing and shown nothing that would convince me to waste money on it. Take off your Atari-colored glasses, and ask why little Tommy is going to ask for a VCS for Christmas. What can he play on this that he can't play on his PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, PC, or phone? That is why this thing is already a failure, regardless of its release date. Gamers want to play games, not spend money to revive dead brands they never had a connection to anyway. As someone with a distaste for Chesnais' brand of sleaze, I'm just enjoying the floundering.

And that pretty much says it all. If someone is excited about a mobile title that will be seven months old at the time of the VCS's probable release, good for them I guess. Tempest 4000 is going on two years old, and people are still asking about it as well. This kind of news may be encouraging for those desperate for encouragement, but it's really just confirming the irrelevance of the console.

How often do you stare at your controller while playing? That feature seemed like an added cost, useless gimmick even over and above the rest of the nonsense.

No, no, no. Fanatical challenges. They're running out of religious zealots that blindly, rabidly believe in this wreck.

🤔

Sony's absolutely crushing it right now in their PS5 reveal. I wonder how many people are watching, but are deeply disappointed there's been no mention whatsoever of crypto, tokens, or open systems...just endless displays of quality software from talented developers eagerly developing for a legitimate console. 🤔

You also have to keep reposting for a couple weeks that you've "flipped the switch" on mass production, "in case anyone missed it."