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3 minutes ago, Iron-Marine Soldier said:

You weren’t an ATARI fan back then...you weren’t around when ATARI...WAS...video games. 
 

 

Get the fcuk out, dude.

 

On 4/25/2018 at 5:20 PM, racerx said:

 

Usually I just stay in the background here except to interject the occasional bit of snark, but you know what? I'll bite. I see this attitude on the various "Atari" Facebook pages, too.

 

CAUTION: LONG, DOUCHEY, SELF-AGGRANDIZING POST AHEAD

 

I've been on this forum for over 13 years because I like gaming in general and Atari in particular. So much so, that I've forged friendships with many of its original employees and have had the good fortune to indulge in relatively high budget collecting in celebration of the early days of video gaming that I was lucky enough to be part of. I've had the honor of talking about Atari's early years with the likes of Owen Rubin, Howard Scott Warshaw, Dan Kramer, Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel.

 

Steve Ritchie

 

Al Alcorn

 

Joe Decuir (and Ben Heckendorn)

 

Bezerk record holder Joel West, Nibbler Record holder Tim McVey, Walter Day

 

Richie Knucklez and He Who Shall Not Be Named

 

Doc Mack of Galloping Ghost, Qbert designer Jeff Lee

 

Eugene Jarvis

 

I've helped stage Jagfest at the Midwest Gaming Classic for several years, putting rarities on display that many wouldn't have the chance to play otherwise.

 

 

Over half of my 30 arcade machines are from Atari.

 

 

 

My childhood heavy sixer still sees regular use.

 

 

Recognize this building?

 

 

Speaks for itself...

 

 

 

That, Max Who Signed Up In December But Has Only Posted In Ataribox and Gameband Threads, is what I'm doing here. I have other hobbies, but this is what I do. Maybe you just want to support a French company, and I can understand that. For those of us that have been closely tied to this kind of scene for a while though...not only do I expect this piece of crap to fail miserably, I want the whole current ridiculous company and its entire sleazy rogue's gallery to go away. They may own the name, but they're not Atari. They're a joke, what they're doing with the brand is a joke, and the damage they're doing to the reputation of the real company disgusts me.

 

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Iron-Marine Soldier said:

I LOVE my ATARI Jaguar...then & now. You obviously didn’t get to play...at release...Alien vs. Predator...Tempest 2000...Defender 2000...DOOM(first console with DOOM)...Iron Soldier...Iron Soldier II...Hover Strike...Battlemorph...Missile Command 3D...Breakout 2000...etc...

 

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?

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21 minutes ago, Iron-Marine Soldier said:

My ATARI Jaguar was $249 in early 1994...so yeah...2020...$300-$400 is huge money. And I bought my ATARI Jaguar-CD in (late 1995?) early 1996...for $99(I “might” have paid $149...should go look at the box)...so...$348($398) for my ATARI Jaguar+CD in the mid-1990s...wow. And the games were $50-$70 each...

 

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

 

Whodathunkit, indeed.

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59 minutes ago, Shaggy the Atarian said:

Because TRUE ATARI fans don't make such sensible decisions, just us "haters"

 

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

 

Mattell. TT.

 

🌮 Fixed it. 🌮

 

 

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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.

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10 minutes ago, Iron-Marine Soldier said:

What is amazing to me...is people here worried about $300-400 USD...sad. 

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.

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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.

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54 minutes ago, Shaggy the Atarian said:

No one at Atari has a vision for what to do with their IP - there isn't anyone who truly understands these games and what made them fun in the first place. There's no creative or innovative thinking over there to reinvent these games in a way that maintains their core while pushing the IP forward

 

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.

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4 hours ago, AtariLeaf said:

Have any of those 96 units been confirmed to have reached anyone aside from the 1 or 2 people in their own marketing department? It's been what, a month now since they were supposedly shipped?

 

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

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41 minutes ago, joeatari1 said:

Reliable (remains to be seen) wireless joysticks have been a dream of mine for a long time, but now looks like reality!

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

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On 7/9/2019 at 8:14 PM, PowerDubs said:

 

Not sure you guys do.  Atari has had lots of fluctuations..  just in the last few weeks it was down at .30 usd and is now sitting at .43, that is a nice healthy % increase.

 

Even if you round down to .4, factor that as the increase from the .3 for easier math... trying to argue that people aren't making money on the trades is silly.

 

Heck- even if it goes up in the next few days, lets say you buy at .50 and it hits a buck when the console launches.. who complains at doubling their money?

 

But if you bought it at .30 a few weeks ago, and it only hits 90 cents- triple your money.

 

People laughing and making jokes at 'penny stock' amuse me.  Yea most penny stocks I won't touch- but Atari isn't going anywhere.  Their #'s keep improving, and if that continues the share price will follow.

 

"Now, might it shoot up to a full Euro or more after the VCS releases?"  Just for fun- what if it hits $2, $5, $10 in the next few years?  And someone bought in at .50, .30 or less..?

 

They are releasing the financial report on the 11th. 

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.

 

😂

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"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."

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47 minutes ago, The Historian said:

Well it's finally happened. 

 

Not sure why, I've only been posting their announcements and newsletters.

 

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

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2 hours ago, aramis said:

But, Atari did try to offer some prizes afterwards...by going back to distributors and operators asking for donations...)

 

 

 

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

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2 hours ago, Paul Slocum said:

 

- Their attempts at launching gambling games in Kenya (which has been mentioned repeatedly in their company reports) where there is a gambling addiction crisis due to lack of regulation/enforcement:

 

 

 

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

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1 hour ago, KaeruYojimbo said:

 

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

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47 minutes ago, Agillig said:

So, the 400 model has 8 GB of ram.  For those of us who aren't tech savy, how does that compare to the base XBox One and PS4 models?

 

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

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26 minutes ago, Agillig said:

Supporters are happy, and I guess they're getting closer to the finish line.  But I have to imagine most aren't going to think the race was worth the prize.

 

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.

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1 hour ago, Tidus79001 said:

That is what toxic fanboys do.  Disparage anyone who gets affiliated with something that they don't support or agree with.  It's all collateral damage to them.  These indie devs are homebrewers who have have managed to turn their love and passion for this hobby into a job that they get paid for and then reinvest again those profits into this to produce more new games for us.  It isn't fair to hurt them by making them enemy by proxy of your disdain even if you don't agree what that this new company that owns the Atari label is doing now.   Peace.

 

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.

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2 hours ago, bmadgames said:

but I think anything is a win

 

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.

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2 hours ago, Mikebloke said:

Honest to God, if this adaptive lighting is sufficiently modifyable to users as well as developers, I would genuinely consider buying one. For all the bashing I do, I would genuinely consider buying something that lights up in pretty ways. 

 

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.

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39 minutes ago, leech said:

Fanancial challenges??  Doesn't this mean they have no fans in the thing?  😛

 

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

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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.

 

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4 hours ago, Mikebloke said:

 

Have I just summed up the last 6 months of updates correctly.

 

 

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