MarioMan88 Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 3 hours ago, TankedThomas said: Found a couple of videos on YouTube from "pimpmyconsole". I don't believe these have been shared yet. The information conveyed here is... misleading at best. Amusing to watch, just for all the inaccuracies though. "It's essentially a jailbroken console." At least it's actually plugged in though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAdYHWE_vnk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MuRvSaTnTI And Werner, since I know you're reading this thread, here's my parts list again to prove you wrong: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8YghK4 And the other one (which is now cheaper than the first - it was previously more expensive): https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Cmk7vW Suck it. Oh man, those vids were painful to watch. So glad I didn’t back this thing. UI is my unimpressive, controller is wired and NO exclusive games. Why would anyone not nostalgic for Atari buy this? At this point sell us the shell and let the modding and homebrew community have at it...it would be more polished than this train wreck. Thanks for posting those links! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agillig Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Well, everyone can relax. The reason those 35 year old games didn't run right is because the Atari VCS is no where close to being finished. Ummm...yay? 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerx Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Hey, now there's a surprise. 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Agillig said: Well, everyone can relax. The reason those 35 year old games didn't run right is because the Atari VCS is no where close to being finished. Ummm...yay? I had a 120mhz candybar phone with windows CE that could run NES games over a decade ago Edited March 1, 2020 by Osgeld 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TankedThomas Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Agillig said: Well, everyone can relax. The reason those 35 year old games didn't run right is because the Atari VCS is no where close to being finished. Ummm...yay? Too bad we've already established that it's only sheer incompetence which would cause that. Oh, and the Atari guy in the video I posted said it'll probably be out in April. Too bad the social media team didn't get that message! Not that this unfinished travesty will be out then, either. Which reminds me - they had blurred-out FCC numbers in one of the recent Medium posts. Don't know why they'd blur them out, maybe legal reasons, but is it possible to look up the FCC registrar to see if they indeed filed with them, or would we not know for sure (e.g. it's kept secret for X amount of time or we can't search by company/product name)? I'm not entirely sure how the FCC works but it'd be interesting to know if that were a ruse. Surely not at this point, but... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoJoe Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 3 hours ago, racerx said: Hey, now there's a surprise. 3 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikebloke Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Was Stefan really there? Didn't write anything we couldn't have written ourselves. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercylon Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Maybe something was posted many pages back, but has anyone actually met this Stefan Werner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agillig Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 1 hour ago, cybercylon said: Maybe something was posted many pages back, but has anyone actually met this Stefan Werner? I'm sure he's a real person, if that's what you're implying. If Atari was going to make a sock puppet account to spew propaganda, I'd think they'd give it a less toxic personality. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seastalker Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 What I want to know is, how does New Atari justify that the delays are the fault of China when having only an alleged prototype at the live event? If a finalized machine is ready for production (like the initial March release date) in China, there is no reason a FINAL model wouldn't be on display at Dcave. Atari should not be able to have it both ways of blaming China AND marginalizing @accounts' reported review of what was played. The 2020 Atari VCS should be a heavy sixer from ebay, and a Harmony cart. You might even have left over funds to get it video mod upgraded. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agillig Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 So you can't even play Pong on it? Stuart Varney is not going to be happy! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, racerx said: Hey, now there's a surprise. I know I'm not supposed to talk politics but... why do all these backers have to be *!@x?*!$@#?* ??? Edited March 1, 2020 by roots.genoa 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 @roots.genoaOh...I just noticed the FREXIT (above)...(Saying no more, I assure you). I'm glad ColecoJoe posted Werner's review, so I could read it. Strangely, even with nothing but the rosiest of colored glasses, his viewpoint was kind of interesting. And, whether blaming The Virus or not, even he now questions delivery dates, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 2 minutes ago, GoldLeader said: @roots.genoaOh...I just noticed the FREXIT (above)...(Saying no more, I assure you). I'm glad ColecoJoe posted Werner's review, so I could read it. Strangely, even with nothing but the rosiest of colored glasses, it was kind of interesting. And, whether blaming The Virus or not, even he now questions delivery dates, etc. Yeah, even tough "the March deadline isn't very achievable" is quite mild. I mean it's achievable or it's not. I also love the "Everything I saw looked clearer, better, and faster than running Atari Vault on Steam". Maybe he has a shitty PC but I really don't see why it would be clearer and better. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 I support Eaexit… I wanna leave the planet Earth... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 What a butt-kissing shill. Around 0:20 you can hear someone yelling an f-bomb. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supa_g Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Has anyone seen this video yet? It's not in english, but it's from about a month ago.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 52 minutes ago, frankodragon said: What a butt-kissing shill. Around 0:20 you can hear someone yelling an f-bomb. Unfortunately he stopped short of asking The Question...He said (something to the effect of) Are These Games specific to this console? IMO, What he Needed to say is "What Games ARE specific to this console?" The Silence would have been deafening. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agillig Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 46 minutes ago, GoldLeader said: Unfortunately he stopped short of asking The Question...He said (something to the effect of) Are These Games specific to this console? IMO, What he Needed to say is "What Games ARE specific to this console?" The Silence would have been deafening. I think they've pretty much given up on having exclusive games. They're probably going to go full bore "PC for your tv" at this point. Honestly, if you made me president of Atari and told me to salvage this turd, that's what I would do. They don't have big IP's of their own to draw mainstream audiences. AAA Third party developers aren't going to develop exclusives for a system that has 11,000 users. What's ironic, is that we've been complaining that Atari hasn't let anyone play the VCS. This weekend they did that, and that may have been a fatal mistake. As a reminder, the Atari VCS prototype can't even play Pong. Pong, for crying out loud! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarioMan88 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Agillig said: I think they've pretty much given up on having exclusive games. They're probably going to go full bore "PC for your tv" at this point. Honestly, if you made me president of Atari and told me to salvage this turd, that's what I would do. They don't have big IP's of their own to draw mainstream audiences. AAA Third party developers aren't going to develop exclusives for a system that has 11,000 users. What's ironic, is that we've been complaining that Atari hasn't let anyone play the VCS. This weekend they did that, and that may have been a fatal mistake. As a reminder, the Atari VCS prototype can't even play Pong. Pong, for crying out loud! I honestly don’t believe this iteration of Atari can produce the 11,000+ units for the backers. I feel for those that forked over their money for this debacle... like you so eloquently stated...it can’t even play pong ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agillig Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 1 hour ago, MarioMan88 said: I honestly don’t believe this iteration of Atari can produce the 11,000+ units for the backers. I feel for those that forked over their money for this debacle... like you so eloquently stated...it can’t even play pong ? I guess the 3 million dollar question is whether they have enough money to get those consoles paid for. The problem is they aren't going to bring in any new revenue for shipping consoles to backers. They already have that money, and probably wasted it. One solution, and one that's bound to infuriate backers is to make a small batch of consoles and ship them to retailers. Then use the profit from those consoles to pay for consoles to send backers. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 7 minutes ago, Agillig said: I guess the 3 million dollar question is whether they have enough money to get those consoles paid for. The problem is they aren't going to bring in any new revenue for shipping consoles to backers. They already have that money, and probably wasted it. One solution, and one that's bound to infuriate backers is to make a small batch of consoles and ship them to retailers. Then use the profit from those consoles to pay for consoles to send backers. They are going to be SOL when no one buys the VCS at retail stores and they get blown out at 1/4th of their price on clearance... lol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I just saw something, none of you have seen before. My best friend was here over the weekend and we chatted with our friend at Atari, he showed me his system, sitting on top of another system, which was a system testing hardware box. Stress testing, I guess. I will ask him, if it is cool to share the pic some time. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TankedThomas Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) Werner is a goober - not very sharp, and technically inept. He's impressed with things that can't even be proven, and things that you can do on any old PC but he doesn't know how to do. "Shill" is probably too nice a name for him. Definitely sounds like he's got a crap PC, and the equivalent skills to boot. Dude's comparing a cheap Logitech controller to a more expensive one. No surprise the more expensive one is better. Buy an Xbox One controller for your PC, Werner - it'll blow your mind. But enough ragging on him. I got Atari Vault from the Fanatical bundle the other day, but it's a good thing I wanted the other three games because wow, what a crappy, half-assed compilation. If it weren't for the arcade games, I'd probably say my original Flashback is better, and it certainly made me want to pick up my 2600 and play that instead (but it needs repairs first, unfortunately). But at least I could play Pong. And it ran on Linux. So much for being the VCS' killer app. Edited March 2, 2020 by TankedThomas 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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