I had an awesome dream last night...

[Gregory DG]

I dreamt I was walking through a Best Buy, or Target, or whatever (some big chain store, it doesn't matter) looking at some music CD's. As I got closer to the video game section, I saw a pallette of brand new Atari Lynx's stacked up about 5 feet high. The best part was the sign said, "Atari Lynx, 4 for $100."

 

[Songbird]

If you're familiar with the (now-defunct) discount chain Venture, they did clear out new Atari Lynx units with 4 games included for $25 back in about 1997. I only bought 2 or 3 at that price! Boy, wish I would have had the foresight to pick up about 50 of them.

[+davidcalgary29]

I think that we're very likely to see new retro handhelds bundled with software in the near future, as it's a great concept, and probably econoically feasible at this point in time. I know that I'd like to have a smaller Lynx-type unit that has some type of menu-driven game selection, and I think that a 10 game/model system would work very well. Wouldn't you love to own a "racing package" with "S.T.U.N. Runner", "Checkered Flag", "Roadblasters", etc?

 

Wish list: a new Lynx with a USB port and flash card storage system. Download new games from the internet!

 

Wish list #2: Atari might be able to address its financial woes if it created a user-pay videogame database system like iTunes for all of its classic systems. Wouldn't you pay .99c to be able to download a legal copy of "Nostradamus" for the A8, and be assured of some tech support/backup?

[+doctorclu]

I think that we're very likely to see new retro handhelds bundled with software in the near future, as it's a great concept, and probably econoically feasible at this point in time. I know that I'd like to have a smaller Lynx-type unit that has some type of menu-driven game selection, and I think that a 10 game/model system would work very well. Wouldn't you love to own a "racing package" with "S.T.U.N. Runner", "Checkered Flag", "Roadblasters", etc?

 

Wish list: a new Lynx with a USB port and flash card storage system. Download new games from the internet!

 

Wish list #2: Atari might be able to address its financial woes if it created a user-pay videogame database system like iTunes for all of its classic systems. Wouldn't you pay .99c to be able to download a legal copy of "Nostradamus" for the A8, and be assured of some tech support/backup?

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Hmmm.. you just might be on to something there.

 

Atari could make a Lynx/Atari 8/Atari 2600 system that could receive downloads. Atari could buy the rights for many games that exist for those platforms, and sell them for like .49 a piece!

 

(Well, they are OLD games afteral).

 

Hmmm... ok, who do we need to talk to at Atari?

 

And is Atari going through hard times right now?

[NE146]

Where's the hot ch1x spreading for joy? What kind of awesome dream is that?

 

On that note.. how much were Lynx's new? I forget how much I paid for my early one.. but it couldn't have been all that much since I bought it in my poor college years. Just curious...

[Gregory DG]

On that note.. how much were Lynx's new?

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I think the MSRP was $179. Games were $39.

 

My best deal was getting my Lynx II on clearance at EB years after they were discontinued for $59 + 4 games. The punk sales droid said, "Man, I thought we'd never sell that thing."

[Grum Lee]

I dream about an expansion for Xenophobe with 2 new characters :

Dana Scully and Fox Mulder (and maybe, why not, the Men In Black )