moycon

Reaperman is my hero.

Steam is awesome!! That's all I have to add. That and wongojack just raised the bar. 711 games!!?? I thought I was cool with 345 game. Now I know better.

Thursday is when my wife gets paid. My SS package is going out Thursday! Now I hate the fact that I addressed and sealed it about a week ago. I found more to add!!

Still not available? Weird. Wish I had bought it when I first noticed it.

I usually wait until Xmas to open mine, but the anticipation is overwhelming, kinda like being a kid again!! I also don't reveal who sent the gifts, although I think one year I wrote a little letter where every line began with the letters of my AA username. MOYCON, I doubt the person caught on though.

Not if you don't have a player base! I hope they abandoned this trend soon!

Just seeing this, after reading pretty dismal reviews about this game. Why do these companies keep trying to turn awesome single player games into MMORPGs? The epic experience is ruined when you have real life trash talking twits in place of story driving NPCs. Was Oblivion Online a hit? I kind of felt like it got mediocre reviews as well. I don't get it.

Mines ready to do, but I think I'll wait a week or so so it doesn't arrive too soon. (If there is such a thing)

I'm hoping to re-new soon I hate not having access to the awesome SUBSCRIBERS forums!! Now that I'm no longer working, I have to budget $$....What a bummer that is.

Is it wrong that like 70% of my SS package are toys? Would it help if I said most are video game related?

I've got most of my stuff together, gonna wait till Dec to send it out though. One thing I was wondering about. Do people announce who they are when sending the Secret Santa package? Like sign a note or card with their Atari Age username? I usually do not because, you know....secret, but not everyone is me so I was curious.

That is rad!

Ho ho ho!!

*fixed!*

150 games? I'm guessing that's all 3 volumes rolled into one package.

Yes, at least right now, none of your avatar purchases or awards carry over. There is a handful of free stuff you can customize the new ones with, and even some you can purchase, but it's pretty basic, no props or anything like that. I suspect they will be coming eventually, but my question is why? They were barely supporting the avatars towards the end. Have the fans been demanding more avatar attention? Are they planning on making avatars part of the Xbox experience again?

So apparently MS found it necessary to update avatars, has anyone else got the message that you can now get SUPER DUPER AVATARS? LOL The avatars originally showing up were a sign of the beginning of the end for the Xbox dashboard. That's when they got rid of the clean blades dash and stuck everyone with their Mii knockoffs. I honestly didn't mind it too much at first after getting used to it. It was kind of OK to see all your friends lined up and you could see who was online and active very easily. Plus you could customize the hell out of the avatars, with cool or obscure items, some of which could only be unlocked via achievements. (At one time I had the Atari Adventure dragon following me around.) Over time though it seemed like MS was pushing avatars to the background, on the Xbox Box One you barely saw them. Where as on the Xbox you saw your friends avatars lined up with whatever customization they had done and whatever "props" they had set up, later on the One you had to actually click on the avatar to see the props. So if you did happen to want a cool prop, the chances of anyone seeing it seemed pretty slim. Looking now I don't even see how you can get to the avatars line up anymore so I guess at some point they did away with it. That said, if they are barely used I wonder why they decided to update at all? Are they going to bring them back and make them more pertinent or something? Having switched to a new avatar the first thing I noticed was your purchased outfits and props do not follow over so I just switched right back. I'm not giving up my classic Tron suit and Adventure dragon!!

Seems to be a lot of sports titles in this one. Oh how I loath sports titles. Although I do remember getting into M Networks Football with my father back in the day.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/atari-flashback-classics-vol-3/bqzxbczxhhmp?ocid=periscope&activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab Found it in the store online, but when I tried to search from the Xbox One itself it didn't pull up anything except for Vol 1 and 2. Weird.

That's me, but truthfully I don't mind. To me VR is best enjoyed in small doses. Even after just watching immersive trailers and videos for 10 minutes, or playing through short VR scenarios like Spiderman Homecoming, I'm a bit sweaty around the edges, and ready for a break. Can't imagine spending an hour or more in a VR helmet.

Oh I'm not trying to be negative. I think it's great that you guys are interested in Atari. I'm a big fan of lots of different things that are outside the "norm" For instance I love silent films, or more specifically silent horror films. It stems from an intense interest in all things horror, and I was genuinely interested in the dawn of horror films. I've collected 16mm films, for no other reason than I wanted to experience films the way they used to be shown to people prior to the age of VHS.I've got 78 rpm records which I still listen to occasionally and I've even bought up books from the turn of the century before the past one (late 1800s) Don't mistake that I'm saying there is no one that will have interest in outdated media, I'm living proof that's not true, and I have no doubt there will always be people like me long after I'm dead. Was just stating an opinion. My guess that in 30 years, finding old Atari games sitting in thrift and antique stores will be extremely common, similar to the masses of cheap 78 rpm records you see now. Hopefully they still work at that time!

A friend of mine sent me the news on Facebook. I literally JUST bought the PS4 version like a week ago, and am only at like level 16. Oh well, I guess I'll be buying it once again if the VR version is any good. Sounds like it might be worth it!

You have to remember you and your two buddies are a squirt of pee in the ocean of gamers. To counter your experience, I have many nieces and nephews and none of them are seriously into retro games. The ones that game, as expected, are way more into games like Fortnight and Minecraft. This in spite of having opportunity to check out the classic when they visit me. Still, tell your friends about this site, if they are truly into retro Atari games maybe they'll join? I wouldn't hold my breath they'd even do that. Hopefully you'll continue to like these types of game, slowly over the next 30 years the market will be flooded with them when all us old folks die off and our collections are dropped off at Goodwill.

It's safer to say 99% of today's youth don't care a bit about Atari, and the incredibly small handful that do are on this forum because it's one of the very few active sites any person can go to to discuss anything Atari.

Silent movies and music from the 30s and 40s are the first thing I thought of when reading through this topic title. Wildly popular at their time, they are all but ignored for the most part today. Not unlike those forms of media, once the people who were kids during the Atari launch generation are dead and buried, the interest will basically be diminished to curious people who are interested in the history of video games, and experiencing them from the beginning, and a tiny percentage of kids who'd parents sat and played with them when they were growing up. In other words, next to nobody. People love to reminisce about "The good old days" when life was better than it is now. (Basically the period of time they were 6 to 26) Music was better, movies were better, video games were better. Of course the young people don't see it like that because their own time period if "the best of times" Atari systems will be sitting next to forgotten in antique stores and museums and the now grown up kids will be singing the praises of Playstation and Xbox.