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Definitely a bootleg, not even a particularly nice design. I have one I bought at Target like ten years ago that’s mostly faded but still has the logo on it. Good official Atari merch is luckily easier than ever to find these days so fret not, there are better shirts out there.

Nolan Bushnell tried to start Atari Japan in the early 1970’s when Atari was not terribly well organized. It was another one of his boondoggles that was papered over by success elsewhere in the company. Atari Japan ended up being sold to Namco for less than a million dollars and they handled everything from there. I think it’s less that they were an American company and more so that Atari’s executives were too high to really follow through on a workable international business strategy.

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I’ve been playing the Danganronpa 1 and 2 ports. They’re pretty faithful, the performance isn’t great but it wasn’t any better on the Vita. Next up is Phoenix Wright. I’m tryin’ to work through my recommendations backlog

Since Apple will probably never make something like a Mac mini in the way we talk about it, the best I could ever hope for is to get a Jackintosh mini for myself. I’d personally find it a real hoot and go out of my way to get it if they included something like a faux (or real!) reproduction of the CRT monitor.

It’s a great way to become a martyr to copyright law but unless that’s your lifestyle it would be sort of a waste.

I don’t think graded games have much of a positive point right now when they only further turn this hobby into a commodity…

Genuinely happy the Lynx has people like you who love and support it despite its shortcomings. I am a big enough Atari fan to permanently etch their logo into my skin and even I don’t have a lot of enthusiasm for the machine but it’s still a deserving one to be played and enjoyed.

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rip to a real one, hopefully future generations of Atari podcasters can come take the baton.

Given that the VCS is charitably treading water and the most success they’ve had lately has been with stuff like Atari 50 I would deduce that’s probably what we’re more likely to see in the future with maybe a mini console like the 400 here and there. Software is how Atari is gonna keep the lights on.

I have the 1040f. I taught myself some Atari Basic on my ST for fun using a code book I got with it, right now I’m separated from it by geography but I’m hopeful that can be reconciled this year and I can maybe start my lifelong notion of dabbling with homebrew. I can make the screen display some fun colors but I would love to make it do some more complicated tasks. IMG_1466.mov I’ve also got a lot of other games and random pieces of software that I play with as anyone else owning an ST would.

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I find Klax to be a rather tedious puzzling experience and observe that it is the calling card of weak games libraries, when the best that can be said is complimenting ports since it came to everything and was basically the same everywhere.

Taboos against necroposting do not make sense to me I would much prefer threads dedicated to a topic get new posts rather than a string of the same OP over and over again.

I bought an Atari ST from a quadriplegic man living in a trailer park outside Tampa in 2013 and the next computer I bought with my own money was the M1 Mac Mini in 2020. My only other computer, a gift, was a 2008 iMac I got for Christmas.

Atari did nothing worth being awarded for they're not exactly pushing the envelope these days as much as they might want you to believe otherwise with their present gimmicky offeringslooking at you, Atari VCS. The only deserving thing I can think of note that they've produced recently is Atari 50 but I don't think the game awards have a compilation category and that game actually came out in late 2022.

a) Everyone who cares to know already does, there’s not a lot of growth beyond people who grew up with it and a small number of people who got into it by retro means. Of the latter Atari is going to get the smallest slice of any major brand after Nintendo, Sega, and Sony. b) They do this with flashbacks so yeah that would work but it doesn’t really scratch the “new hardware” itch c) This would be nice but if they had the opportunity to buy back these licenses they would done so already, there’s no money for Atari there d) and e) why would they go through the trouble of making all this when they can skip it and sell digital copies with no overhead on existing stores instead of trying to muscle in on territory pretty well dominated by Valve and the other aforementioned big boys I would love for there to be new Atari hardware that isn’t a grift trading on nostalgia to sucker people like us in but the reality is we are a small subculture(Atari fans) of a subculture(retro nerds) of a subculture(gamers) and unless all of us win the lottery or inherit money from our long lost uncle Nolan we’re not gonna see new Atari hardware in our lifetime. The best we can expect is more like Atari 50, which is enough for me personally. e: also this is even before we consider how bad most Atari consoles would look blown up on a modern television chunky soup graphics are not what popular media is made from these days.

That's actually not as bad as I expected it to be I would pay that sum for such an object.

I think the market of people who a. own such cartridges and b. don't already own devices to play them on is probably infinitesimally tiny and I don't see how they would be able to make any money following that path. There's a reason that aftermarket consoles usually go for reproducing Nintendo/Sega before anything else, us Atari fanatics are a small minority of a minority group of consumers. This is not to say I don't want such a thing to exist, only that I think capitalism would never allow us such delights since they would not be profitable ventures.

What a wild machine, I thought Atari got out of the music business after that one box in the 70's I had no idea it had this sorta spiritual successor thing. How cool! I guess it makes sense considering how widespread the ST was in the music production scene of the late 80's and early-to-mid 90's.

I would love to have a version of the rainbow badge with trans pride colors, that would be dopesauce. I'd probably have to buy a new Atari 7800 to use it if I ever purchased or made such a thing, I want to keep the one I have now as stock as possible for as long as possible.

I don't think I want Atari doing anything more than releasing compilations of their best old stuff on modern hardware, every move we see with these legacy brands (intellivision amico, atari VCS) seems really grifty so I hope they steer clear of hardware to salvage whatever reputation they have left to the wider gaming public.

A better version of Double Dragon than what we got on the 2600 would have been nice, maybe some enhanced versions of Pitfall! and other classic 2600 games. Maybe port Miner 2049er. There are also some games like the flight sims that I wish hadn't come out for the 7800 but that's a conversation for another thread...

I tried looking up topics for this, the only thread I could find was from almost ten years ago so in the interest of not necroposting I thought I would start a new thread. Does anyone else have any Atari tats, or gaming tats in general? I've got one, it's my first tattoo and I'm looking forward to getting more!