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SpookyMulder

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It may be hard for younger people to understand, but Atari was once a magical, wonderful, era defining brand.

 

The box art, the design of the consoles, the arcade conversions (Space Invaders was ground breaking), were all something from the future.... at least, that’s what it felt like at the end of the 1970s).

 

Its truly sad how far from the tree, the Apple has now fallen :(

 

As SeanR hints at, the hope of a rebirth now lies with Intellivision...

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merman

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Here's the thing.

 

Bally ran casinos.

Namco and Konami are now heavily into casinos and slot machines.

 

So why is it different when Atari do it?

 

And if you say, but Atari founded the industry, let's not forget how dodgy things were back then. Organised crime was heavily involved in pinball routes, and Atari even pretended to be its own competitor Kee Games to sell more cabinets. So any implication that the brand is tarnished by this is wide of the mark anyway.

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Lumpy

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40 minutes ago, merman said:

Here's the thing.

 

Bally ran casinos.

Namco and Konami are now heavily into casinos and slot machines.

 

So why is it different when Atari do it?

 

And if you say, but Atari founded the industry, let's not forget how dodgy things were back then. Organised crime was heavily involved in pinball routes, and Atari even pretended to be its own competitor Kee Games to sell more cabinets. So any implication that the brand is tarnished by this is wide of the mark anyway.

 

But there isn't even a product to point at, before we even think about getting people separated from their cash further with gambling.

 

Get the actual product out first that people paid into the Kickstarter for. It's adding insult to injury.

 

And the less said about Konami's ventures of late, the better.

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23 hours ago, Lumpy said:

 

But there isn't even a product to point at, before we even think about getting people separated from their cash further with gambling.

 

Get the actual product out first that people paid into the Kickstarter for. It's adding insult to injury.

 

And the less said about Konami's ventures of late, the better.

 

I am struggling to see what your point is here.

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Lumpy

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I'll make it a bit clearer then hopefully.

 

What I am saying is I am surprised/appalled that a company which has already taken a load of money from people who backed a project in good faith, has instead chosen to prioritise a gambling system to get more cash from punters, rather than actually produce the system for which they've already had the dough.

 

Still, the irony is sad isn't it, seeing as people were already gambling with their money when they chose to back this.

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Rex Grossman

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On 21/04/2020 at 14:13, merman said:

Here's the thing.

 

Bally ran casinos.

Namco and Konami are now heavily into casinos and slot machines.

 

So why is it different when Atari do it?

 

And if you say, but Atari founded the industry, let's not forget how dodgy things were back then. Organised crime was heavily involved in pinball routes, and Atari even pretended to be its own competitor Kee Games to sell more cabinets. So any implication that the brand is tarnished by this is wide of the mark anyway.

 

Because Atari only exists as a name now. It has become meaningless.

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The new Intellivision Amico video popped up on my YouTube feed the other day and it looks really good. The focus on local multiplayer sounds like a really good selling point, plus some of the games look like a lot of fun. And you know what, there’s actually hardware they’re demonstrating.

 

 

But then it turns out a load of other videos popped up in my feed afterwards with what looks like Atari fans having a massive dig at the Amico.

 

I thought the Spectrum community was messed up....

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