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  2. Posted · Edited by JasperAK
    Clarify that I'm thinking of three Amicos.

    I took my Atari Flashback Gold 9 to work about a year ago. Everyone had a good time, even the younger workers. I've taken it back a couple of times and the competitiveness is infectious. I'm already tempted to buy a third Amico (one for the family room, one for the kids alone, and) for work. I just hope games I buy are transferable between potentially three machines.

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    On 6/9/2017 at 9:36 AM, Goochman said:

    Woodgrain is back in style it seems...............

    https://www.ataribox.com/

     

    On 6/9/2017 at 11:34 AM, Sky7 said:

    I was just on the Ataribox.com site. Very vague. What is this going to be? Considering there are several Atari flashback devices out there, what is this "Ataribox" going to be?

    Oh how far we haven't come in over two years.

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  6. Posted

    Received mine this week and my Vader loves it. Even though I have the demos and bins, my daughter still likes using the carts so I'll be buying the homebrews and hacks over the next year or so. So much great work by the community, that I have no problem rewarding. Thanks everyone. AA does what Atari SA could only wish it could do.

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    48 minutes ago, ledzep said:

     

    I really believe that little kids growing up should be exposed to the 2600 first, let them play those games and get into the gameplay and the different controllers.  The games are fun and straightforward.  Then they can move on to something more modern or complex.  But the 2600 is like giving them a history lesson.  Not just of the best of the early 8-bit consoles but also because they'd get an easy way to playing those old late-'70s arcade games that they'll never find and that nobody feels like porting now.  I'd also include the Vectrex since how else will they ever lay eyes on real vector display games?  Of course if possible, get them to a California Extreme or similar arcade game expo (and also pinball machines!) so that they can see what they are missing out on, that would be higher learning video game history lessons.  I mean, a real Tempest or Defender in person is far better than whatever home port they could play.  And then dad (or mom) could show them how it's done, haahaha.

    And last night my daughter and I played Medieval Mayhem for the first time. Holy crap, three fireballs rocketing around. I was the first to go down and then her and we watched the computer duke it out for a few minutes. We started over again with different settings and I lost first again. After the computer had two wins, she one, and I none, I called for bedtime. I felt like a shit heel because she was winning, and after the requisite melt down, she was truly sad because we couldn't keep playing. Never before, even when she won or was winning, had I seen her like that. I think she felt true agency in the game, and it takes simple games like this to develop that feeling. These new mobile games have no agency; they are just glorified hamster balls and Skinner boxes. I think some people get that. She doesn't get it, but I think she will. And all of this from an awesome remake of a forty-year-old game. Fuck yeah the 2600 and retro gaming.

     

    Suck it Fred, Atari Age and all of these awesome programmers have it figured out. Take your shit box and go home.

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    1 hour ago, Tommy Tallarico said:


    Hi!,

     

    Thanks for the question.  It's a great one that doesn't come up too often but something we have thought about a lot.

    I can't really give you the exact answer at this moment because of patents pending HOWEVER I can tell you this.

     

    If you purchased a digital game on your system downstairs... you will be able to play it on other machines in your house very easily.  I wish I could tell you more... but I can't until next June.  Just know that we have you taken care of and it's something we have thought about a lot!  Also... physical media would of course be very easy to take from room to room as well.  But I wanted to ensure that digital games within a household were capable as well.  And the great thing is that it's super easy to do!  Although there are some restrictions (if it's being played in one room... the same game can't be played in another)... but we needed some restrictions like that because of copy protection and potentially opening ourselves up for massive piracy.  

    Hope that helped to answer your question somewhat.  I wish I could tell you more.

    Thanks!

     

     

    Thank you for the quick response.

     

    I don't want to sound like I'm kissing your ass or anything, but your excitement for the Amico is infectious. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this all plays out. Our family is exactly who you are selling too. If you have a 2p Co-op game like Diablo 3, I might even be able to get the wife to play. Fuck, now that I think of it, she'd play something like Zombies Ate My Neighbors. We liked the Wii but after a few months got tired of the Rabids mini games.

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    Quick question here. I have a 5yo and 7yo and as I'm imagining a woodgrain or black Amico in the house for the family proper (red if I get sole pick), I see getting one for them that they can control and play with just each other (one way to foster a bit of independence between them and parental units). The question is this: are the games purchased for a machine or account? Are they shareable between two Amico's in the same house?

     

    The reason I ask is several-fold. I have multiple Wiis because the damn CD loaders kept breaking, so they all have different games and DLC on them. I have half The Beatles Rubber Soul Rockband songs on one and most on the other. Poo. We don't play the Wii any more because of that. Nasty taste in the mouth. Further, while I've introduced them to my Vader, I don't let them play with it unsupervised because they treated it like it was theirs and not mine. Now I realize that with the Amico I'd probably only have to worry about the controllers' durability, I'm still thinking that at the expected price point I'd like to buy two.

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  15. Posted · Edited by JasperAK

    20 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:


    Heck yeah!  For sure.  Every game has a single player and couch co-op mode.  Required for every game we're doing.  It's been a lot of fun updating and turning traditional single player games into couch co-op as well.  Considering this is the Atari thread... our 8 player Missile Command is really fun!  You can play in Versus or Co-Op.  And we even have a 2 player mode where someone is on the top and someone on the bottom and your firing rockets at each other while defending your own.  But of course... a full single player mode as well.

    :)

     

    This may just be what my 7yo, 5yo, and I have been waiting for. We love playing my Vader, but they are also used to Xbox 360 and mobile games. A system that the kids can play together, and can hook up to our real entertainment center, that's gold and badly lacking in the marketplace.

     

    Now my wife isn't too interested in playing with us, but she doesn't mind watching. Shoot, she used to watch her brother play the Intellivision. At one point I thought she used to play with her brother, so I bought her a Flashback Intellivision for Christmas. That's when I learned that she only ever watched him play. So I did what any husband would do. I played with her ding-dong brother for hours while she watched and talked smack to both of us. That was one of the best Christmas's we as an extended family had together.

     

    I also found the D&D games on there and they were fantastic, so if you found a way to get them on there (even without the branding), that'd be aces.

     

    I have to say if you can deliver all of this, this might just be a day one purchase for us. I think we're your target market. Sell it to me. :)

     

    UPDATE: Continued reading the thread; sorry for the derail. Back to your F*ing tacos kids.

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  17. Posted

    5 hours ago, GrizzLee said:

    Now at home and playing my new games.  Galagon, Wizard of Wor... what can i say.... better than sex !!

    I totally forgot Wizard of Wor was getting the awesome treatment as well. Looks like I'm getting both when they show up on the store.

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    I'm not much of a fan of the aesthetics, although I admit some of these original games are beautiful and some of the homebrews are amazing. It's the gameplay that I love. When I started collecting a little more than a year ago, Berserk was one of the first games I got. Within three weeks or so I had 25k points. Tonight, I slapped it in for about 5 minutes and got nearly 8k. I had a blast as the difficulty ramped up with every completed board. If I played for a couple of hours straight, I'd probably hit the 25k again. These Atari games you can pick up and play for a few minutes, lose, start right over; get into a rhythym and start racking up the score. Many 8-bit and some 16-bit are like that for me, but most of the Atari 2600 games are like that. I've not played too many games from other generations that are as pick-up-and-play. That's what I think of when I think Atari. So yes, Atari has a visual style that some programmers really nail, but its play style is why I've spent about $400 over the past year building a collection.

     

    Plus it uses joysticks (or paddles which my kids love--Warlords I'm looking at you). If they are not playing games where swipe with their index fingers, they are playing games with a much more tactile feel. When my kids and I play the NES, we use two advantages. Now don't get me wrong, they like playing LEGO and Skylander games on the 360, but its the Atari they continuously ask to play.

     

    Obligatory Rant: So screw Atari SA for f*cking up the Aretardbox. If they took what we already have and built on that, I would have bought it on release. I'm anxiously awaiting a modern day system to hook up to my HD TV that my kids and I (and maybe even mom) can play. I'm sure someone on this board is going to chime in and let me know something is coming in about a year. I wish my Atari 2600 had the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game from Intellivison. Man I love that game.

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    This was one of the first games I bought when I started my recollection about year ago. It never bothered me that you couldn't win; it was always about getting a better score than everyone else. I have such fond memories of this game and today the game play is still fun if short.

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    My 7yo daughter and 5yo son like playing my Vader over the Xbox 360. She loves playing Haunted House. I've even seen her shake when the ghost appeared on the screen. I'm sure she'd shake at Resident Evil on the 360, but maybe after being bombarded with zombies, she'd become numb to them. But seriously, Haunted House on the Atari 2600, that ghost gets her every time.

     

    It is also a great system for competitive play. Wizard of Wor, Warlords, Combat, and Ice Hockey are our favorites, and I think it's because the games are relatively short. We can play three Spads v. one German Bomber and I can lose, but in two-and-a-half minutes we are playing again and I'm crushing her. She loves it. And she's pretty good at sh!t-talking too. It's hilarious to see her brother mimic her whenever I bite it. But the real fun is Ice Hockey. I can woop her butt in Ice Hockey, but three minutes later she comes right back for more. She's getting better and I'm almost done pulling my punches on diff-A, so one day I'm sure she will beat me at Ice Hockey. But not today.

     

    The one deficiency though are the cooperative games. Space Invaders, Wizard of Wor, and ...

     

    She turns Wizard of Wor into a competitive game by chasing me down to shoot me. One day she'll realize she can corner me with the monsters.

     

    I'd love to see Galaxian for 2pCoop.

     

    For two player fun, the 2600 is where it is at, the NES is a close second (I have two NES advantages), and the Xbox 360 a very distant third.

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