carlsson Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 they're afraid the handle will snap on camera if they grab it at the top the way a real person would? You mean a seasoned retro gamer like the most of us here on AtariAge. When it comes to younger generations with little or no joystick experience, they tend to nudge lightly on the top of the shaft, sometimes carefully grabbing it with the tips of the fingers. I've seen it several times in the gaming area of the retro gaming expo I'm co-arranging. Both boys and girls, from elementary school up to high school ages. Very few of them grab the joystick shaft like it is supposed to be grabbed. Now I don't know if Atari are making those controllers for old-timers or for Generation X who have little or no previous experience of joysticks. Or for anyone, for that matter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCAT Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 .... Very few of them grab the joystick shaft like it is supposed to be grabbed. Now I don't know if Atari are making those controllers for old-timers or for Generation X who have little or no previous experience of joysticks. Or for anyone, for that matter. ^^HAHA! this gave me chuckles... the part about them "Making those controllers" lol ... "making" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Mea culpa. Should it be "putting their name on those controllers"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 I just looked at the site analytics for my blog. 25% of my page views are from France. France. Holy $#!& Atari is reading my blog. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TwentySixHundred Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 What do you mean? Well the HDMI cable connected to the system would have helped their case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus79001 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 (edited) I'm surprised nobody pointed this out yet: DECEMBER OF 2020? Maybe I'm just not doing the math right in my head... but that's a full 1.5 years away from now?!?! That's almost 2 years after the original projected release date, if I'm not mistaken? They were saying before the end of 2019. When did the december 2020 date come out!? According to the press release linked in the Atari VCS update newsletter from yesterday Indiegogo backers will be receiving their consoles in December 2019 which will be 3 months before the full retail rollout scheduled for March 2020. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EYUjfAfqzBo0d5G1I7qV_T-YpsojRBNiFGLcRIU4Lt8/mobilebasic Edited June 12, 2019 by Tidus79001 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 They have probably just thrown a generic laptop board in the clear case as an attempt to "show" progress. With a fan spreading heat all around the case, so it is equally hot everywhere? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBerel Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 There's a lot of floppy play in the "classic joystick," which is a questionable choice since all of those 2600 games originally used digital controls. 10 a lot of play in the classic controller an odd choice for digitally controlled games.png Yeah, it's almost like it's just a hunk of PVC pipe stuck to the top of a generic XBox thumb stick. Couldn't be though......could it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Now I don't know if Atari are making those controllers for old-timers or for Generation X who have little or no previous experience of joysticks. Or for anyone, for that matter. I'm not sure the Generation Xers would be the problem. Aren't they the ones who were born from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, or thereabouts? If so, they would have been kids when the Atari systems were new—they'd be at least in their 40s by now, the same age group as many of us—so they should still remember how to properly handle a joystick. It's the pod people who came along later who have no clue. With a fan spreading heat all around the case, so it is equally hot everywhere? That's what I'm wondering, too. Are there even any vents cut into the top of that case? I don't see any from the angle shown in the picture. Where is the cool air supposed to come from? And is that fan just blowing the hot air back into the interior of that thin, flimsy, plastic case, which also seems to lack exhaust vents? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Hm, I'm mixing up the notions. I meant Generation Z. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TwentySixHundred Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 With a fan spreading heat all around the case, so it is equally hot everywhere? I doubt the clearcase system even works to be honest and is more of a display. I suspect it's probably used to try and show it's not an empty box because we all keep referring to it as a taco with no filling lol. After all we never really see what system is being used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 After all we never really see what system is being used. Sure we do. This one: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Sure we do. This one: Looks like a Lenovo ThinkStation that they "borrowed" from their secretary's desk, running Stella. Inspiring. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Why is there a wire coming out of the joystick? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomRonn Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Why is there a wire coming out of the joystick? Good catch, I didn't even pick up on that among all the other visual treats on display... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 (edited) Why is there a wire coming out of the joystick? there's a blutoof dongle at the end, most of the time in the industry its called a computer but lets not bash them too hard, its not like a child could buy an ESP32 off a billion places for 5 bucks and have it running a bluetooth dongle using example code within 10 min of getting it (incuding installing the toolchain on the computer, er dongle) oh wait, a child could do exactly that Edited June 12, 2019 by Osgeld 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Some fun on Facebook this morning... I didn't blank out this person's name, because he blocked me soon after he responded to my post calling the VCS a boondoggle... haters.png Then my response to this comparison to ET... ET.png Let's see what happens when posting something similar on my Twitter feed. Mwahahaa! (The avatar of Brian took me a minute to figure out what that was. I thought it was a shadow in front of some larger person with its hands cut off. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Dinner is served! I added sour cream. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 My guess is a modified Jakk's Pacific PnP controller with another 2600 emulator inside and a 5V power USB connected to a hidden power bar. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 LMAO, look at the picture again. "Smoke & Mirror", both present. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 LMAO, look at the picture again. "Smoke & Mirror", both present. Shouldn't that be Smoak & Mirror? Sounds like the title to a comic book. Like Cloak & Dagger. Make it happen Marvel. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) Edited June 13, 2019 by OldSchoolRetroGamer 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Thompson Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) Just watched the CNET video. What the hell is going on with the joystick? Is this the self-centering 5200 joystick everyone dreamed of? It looks like it's going to control like shit. I've never played Pac-Man like I'm holding a chopstick either. Maybe that's how other people play but I like to grip my joystick and actually move it, this definitely looks to be more 5200-styled analog, which I have a deep passionate hatred for. What a shame. As far as the laptop in a clear case? I could definitely see that. The game selection screen looks like a terrible mock up. See Tempest 4000 cut off around the edges or is that supposed to look like... that. Edited June 13, 2019 by Clint Thompson 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thanatos Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Hm, I'm mixing up the notions. I meant Generation Z. Glad you corrected, because after your previous comment I thought "There are a lot of us old-timers here that are Gen-X"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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