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  1. The Historian
    I got a 9 gold for Xmas a while back.... I haven't even taken it out of the box. The Kieren interview was good. No surprises in there, but good to hear it from his perspective.
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    I'm very late to the "Homebew" or "Developer" talk, but I wanted to add my thoughts because I'm arrogant enough to think my opinion matters! ? AtariAge and @Albert function as a "Publisher" who produces, packages, and gives royalties for games created by "Developers". No different than what happens in modern gaming. We are way past someone at home doing it all by themselves to produce, as @jaybird3rd said, "a humble 4K game in a plastic baggie—complete with a recycled cartridge board and shell, a scissor-cut label and a folded manual printed on a cheap home printer, and artwork drawn by the programmer on graph paper". Sure AA still uses recycled shells, but I can speak with experience when I say that Albert is very, very selective about what shells he will take in to use. I do not consider the games created and sold here as "Homebrew". You are, in my eyes, all capital D "Developers" and I fully support you and your efforts.
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    I highly recommend this podcast.
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    And the 'SystemSupervisorPW ' isn't visible anymore to the efivar command.
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    Yeah, I feel like I covered that...
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    <soapbox> 1000 times this. They were practically hostile to their potential customers. But that also ties in to your next point which I won't quote here. Don't outsource everything. The "unofficial" reddit community succeeded (and continues to succeed), because it allowed people to voice their opinions, good or bad... so long as they didn't resort to personal attacks on each other. It allowed questions of Atari that were not easy to answer or may not have had good answers. Silencing your critics and/or hiding the tough questions just makes it look like you've got something to hide or that you are unwilling to deal with it. A community will accept "We don't know", "We cannot answer that at this time" and "We do not have firm timelines at this point". Those are not phrases of failure, those are real, human answers to questions without good answers. True Fans will clearly be understanding about anything and the haters are gonna hate no matter what. But it's great masses in the middle that will watch every move you make and decide what they will do. In my opinion, Atari and it's marketing agency mishandled things nearly every step of the way, from a Community and Customer communications perspective. They've lost a lot of good will along the way for products they could internally develop, but they are still finding a lot of success selling the games they still own and their logo to other companies who can bring good products to market. I don't think they will ever try something like this again. I believe they will make enough units to cover preorders and defects, and never mention it (they barely talk about it now) or consider "doing it themselves" ever again. </soapbox>
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    The Activision Decathlon, assuming you can get it on there.
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    It's an elite designation for two forems forums.
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    You guys did a great job with that, and I appreciate that you (or your team) popped into the Arcade1Up subreddit to answer questions when it started reaching people homes.
  11. The Historian
    AtariOS root filesystem wasn't encrypted
  12. The Historian
    Which is why the alternatives, here and elsewhere, have flourished. Atari:
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    To be fair, never before have you been able to play and steam on Atari branded hardware. But that's the armchair lawyer using weasel words in me talking.
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    Exclusive to the Switch? The 1st party games are pretty much on every Nintendo platform since the snes. I mean the first 3 super mario's (plus lost world's) were released on the snes. And while they have a long list of IPs, no one is going to pull out unreal engine for Math Grand Prix. There isn't a lot of quality IP in the list to build with. Sure there's a few but honestly i'd rather a AAA or even a AA developer license it, but there is no way they would do that as an exclusive too the VCS2020 without Atari putting serious money on the table up front..
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    Starting to see ebay auctions. Most are over $900 usd for the 800 plus controlles.
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    Look jamm, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
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    Sure, you take an existing gaming technology, like unique items in an MMO or virtual land and items in Second Life, add an additional layer of unnecessary "blockchain" technology and pull in the idiots who don't know anything about gaming or blockchain... but heard that bitcoin made people a lot of money. Blockchain brings nothing to the table that doesn't already exist in gaming in some form.
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    I volunteered, and was not paid. I was a backer of the Atari Game and and offered to help there... And when the Atari Box was gearing up I jumped over. I do that a lot. I also run unofficial reddit communities for Arcade1Up, AtGames Legends Ultimate, as well as the one for the VCS. I tend to run communities that allow criticism because I believe that you cannot improve if you do not know what is wrong. And fixing the issues should be public too. Far to often employees take these issues personally or see them as a personal attacks and will remove the posts and/or ban the user. This makes it look like the company is trying to hide something or just not address the issue. Addressing the issues publicly shows everyone that you are aware and working to improve. I would not trust a company that tries to hide genuine user complaints, even if the language they use to talk about the issue is "colorful". Ultimately the user is on the company's side, they want things to be better... And that's good for everybody. Putting away my soapbox now...
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    Easy brother.
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    I was wrong about the date it's July 24th, 2021. I have a remind in my calendar for July 7th so I can get prepped and that's what I mistakenly posted.
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    July 7th, 2021
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    Just speaking from Taco experience here, that s*** doesn't work around here.
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    “A foole and his money be soone at debate: which after with sorow repents him too late.” - Thomas Tusser @CPUWIZ I was so tempted to leave that post count as long as I could
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    "Unboxing" https://www.janipenttinen.com/post/unboxing-atari-vcs
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