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  1. pacman000
    Looks like something I designed in 7th or 8th grade. Maybe 4th grade? I don't know; I remember drawing a track ball on it, & I don't think I knew about track ball games in 4th grade.
  2. pacman000
    Everyone copied it. Atari’s success cans from the name; they had the REAL Space Invaders.
  3. pacman000
    They apparently closed a bit over 10 years ago: https://krcgtv.com/news/neighborhood/kiddie-ride-company-closes-doors
  4. pacman000

    My dad came in & said he was beat. So I handed him sunglasses, bongos, & a black beret.

    1. CrazyChris

      CrazyChris

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      Play Beatnik Bert for the Commodore 64.

      Note: Joystick should be in Port 2.

      BeatnikBertv1-2_C64.zip

  5. pacman000
    Tramiel seemed fairly good at moving in the right direction early in his career. From repairing typewriters, to assembling them, to building adding machines, then calculators, then computers. Shoot, the Atari St was finished fairly quickly after he left Commodore too. I think he made a mistep when he bought The Federated Group, & he never really recovered after that. It's kinda hard to innovate when a division of your company is loosing tens of millions each year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Group
  6. pacman000

    With a time machine, I might try to keep a search engine monopoly from forming. Convince excite to buy Google. That way Google would've been shut down when excite@Home went bankrupt, & we'd...have a search engine monopoly owned by Inkomi.

     

    Rats.

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    2. Giles N

      Giles N

      With a time-machine I could send myself back in time to these old, antique or ancient know-nothing-peoples, and contribute to destroying their societies even more by my mere human nature.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      But first ya gotta get on Yahoo and find out how to build a Time Machine.

    4. pacman000

      pacman000

      https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A2KLfR9rLRthOH8A2LRy.9w4;_ylc=X0kDQlprc1lqazRMakZBQjUzdVlSc3RXZ05uTWpZd01BQUFBQUR4eXg5UgRfUwM5NTQwMDYzODYEX3IDMgRhY3RuA2tleWJvYXJkBGNzcmNwdmlkA0Jaa3NZams0TGpGQUI1M3VZUnN0V2dObk1qWXdNQUFBQUFEeHl4OVIEZnIDBGZyMgNzYi10b3AEZ3ByaWQDUXp5M3EwYXNTcWkyYWouTTB5RDYzQQRuX3JzbHQDMARuX3N1Z2cDMTAEb3JpZ2luA3NlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMwBHFzdHJsAzI3BHF1ZXJ5A2hvdyUyMHRvJTIwYnVpbGQlMjBhJTIwdGltZSUyMG1hY2hpbmUEc2VjA3NlYXJjaARzbGsDYnV0dG9uBHQyA3NlYXJjaAR0NANrZXlib2FyZAR0X3N0bXADMTYyOTE3MTA3MAR2dGVzdGlkA0NvY28zMDA-?ei=UTF-8&pvid=BZksYjk4LjFAB53uYRstWgNnMjYwMAAAAADxyx9R&gprid=&fr=sfp&p=how+to+build+a+time+machine&fr2=sb-top

  7. pacman000

    This sounds happy: 

     

  8. pacman000
    I saw this thread title & immediately thought “Oh no!” Used Jag prices are high because of limited supply. They’re being bought by collectors who want multiple weird systems. A mini system won’t satisfy them. You might as well make a mini console based on the Super A’Can or Casio PV-1000.
  9. pacman000
    Seems like a minor question, hardly worth bothering him for.
  10. pacman000
    Sega & Atari SA are not even in the same ballpark. Sega has over 2000 employees, a successful arcade division, a publishing division, development studios etc. Atari has 20 people, who are trying to license their old titles to others.
  11. pacman000
    Now that I've not heard about. Did they actually make any?
  12. pacman000

    I think I found a word that rhymes with orange: 

     

    Flange

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Minge?

    3. joeatari1

      joeatari1

      Porridge.

    4. Giles N

      Giles N

      This thread must surely come to produce some the most sublime poetry in the history of literature…

  13. pacman000
    There are apparently some factual errors Game Over gets wrong: Hardcore Gaming 101: Video Game Book Reviews - Game Over (kontek.net) The pages posted here are interesting; if true it means Nintendo was planning a lock-out chip before the U.S. market crashed, but we'd need another way to verify things.
  14. pacman000
    If I remember right, it was actually "magnetic media rights" (Atari) vs. "cartridge rights" (Coleco.) But I could be mistaken.
  15. pacman000
    Naw, Nintendo would’ve just found some way to double cross them once the system started selling well. And Jack Tramiel wouldn’tve known how to market it anyways.
  16. pacman000
    I thought the ColecoVision's failure had more to do with the Adam's failure, & Coleco's over investment in Cabbage Patch dolls, which proved to be a fad.
  17. pacman000
    I thought the ColecoVision was, initially, a success.
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    Craigslist now requires Jscript. How annoying.

  20. pacman000
    I have trouble believing the “downturn in the video game industry wouldn´t have been as bad“ because every major market seems to have had a near-industry-destroying crash a few years after its inception.
  21. pacman000
    But it still would’ve been profitable to make bad games for whatever replaces the 2600. All those new companies producing bad games were just the natural result of a new market; everyone gets excited; everyone invests, & most loose their money. Atari is the Yahoo of the video game world.
  22. pacman000
    Released the Famicom in Japan; licensed games to U.S. companies.
  23. pacman000
    And robots; you can’t forget about Androbot.
  24. pacman000
    I’d bet on the Osbourne effect; the average consumer wasn’t ready for the yearly upgrade yet.
  25. pacman000
    Voted no. Bushnell's a visionary, but he's not a good business man. Atari needed someone who was both, & I'm not sure they ever got it. Jack Tramiel might've been close, but by the late 80's he seemed to be repeating what he did in the past. That's the opposite of visionary. And he had a tendency to burn bridges, which hurt him on the pure business end of things as well.
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