TrogdarRobusto

I think this would more likely be a peripheral ... but I hear you.

I saw an article yesterday saying Evercade's Atari carts were discontinue and they would sell down inventory. As for Evercade compatibility with the 2600+ that is a question best answered by Al or Ben. Our goal with hardware is usually maximizing compatibility while maintaining a reasonable cost.

The number of times it was called vaporware ... the VCS has its weak points, I could point them out all day long. But it has some strengths.

I bet those order numbers are just Shopify sequential orders, not actual 2600+ inventory counts. I mean, you can keep trying ... but I doubt Atari is going to be giving out that information any time soon. Sorry ..

I can attest to this. Powerdubs is not shy about pointing out things he is not happy with. Especially to me Right Powerdubs? How are you doing in this rain by the way? It is nuts up by me. Huge puddles in the backyard, and my wife is trapped in the city because the trains are shut down.

Yes.

Gonna be funny to see Intellivision as a rank for an Atari employee ... but I guess I'm down for it. I did own an Intellivision as a kid.

Powerdubs !!!!! The sponsorships are nice, but I want to visit an Atari Hotel. One would imagine I would get some perks !

What rank comes after chopper commander? I like that title, I might have to stop posting when I get close to the threshold to the next level.

Yeah ... I hear you it is word soup sometimes. I mean, a few of the articles that came out in April came to the same conclusion. But one is the hotel licensing deal with a company that actually is in the hotel business. I don't really know as much about the ICICB piece. There may have been a lot in that agreement that they just never actually did. There were physical Atari Casinos in Africa, I didn't think those were related to ICICB. A lot of the ICICB casino references were to virtual casinos. It was a use case for the token ... but as noted the execution issues ... Our blockchain/web3 interests at this point are so far removed from all of that ...

As I understand it, the hotel and token licenses are not at all related. Token was a licensing deal with ICICB. New leadership did not like how they executed, cancelled the deal. Full stop. Hotel is also a licensing deal, with a different entity, GSD Group. Don't know where they are at the moment, the pandemic blew up their timeline. Some articles conflated the ICICB termination with the hotel license. It was confusing. There were some virtual casinos, and other metaverse projects I believe within the ICICB umbrella. Those are all terminated.

and a video ... WhatsApp Video 2022-03-16 at 10.10.51.mp4

At one point we were discussing Brazil ... the thread is 72 pages long and I couldn't find what I was looking for with search. My apologies. But, I said one of our partners had done a cool activation in a mall in Brazil. Here are some photos.

If your mission is a good one, a mission that has a strong community, sense of purpose, makes sense in the marketplace ... one would imagine that it would also be profitable. that is what I am rooting for ...

100% ... we are all good... he is an actual gamer. I don't know how he finds the time, but I am very grateful that he does.

I really don't want to wade into the conjecture about our Chairman and CEO (nice pun right?). But, I will say from personal experience and some understanding of his background that he is both a businessman and a gamer.

I actually said something like that in an interview, I think Wade did too. You might be referencing that? I mentioned it in the context of Wade soldering RCA cables to his original 2600 ... funny

I came in at the end of that era and the beginning of the Rosen era ... the change in how we interact with the Atari community was palpable, welcome and long overdue.

Atari has some strong licensing partners in Brazil, but I don't know if there is a distributor for the 2600+ in country yet.

I am absorbing all of this discussion ... Ben is better pled to answer these questions re compatibility, etc. but I am taking nots for sure.

@Defender_2600 one more note, we are testing every cart we can find and noting down any issues we see related to color, controls, and more. As we identify things we can evaluate potential remedies. The work is ongoing.

@Defender_2600 you have asked a lot of really good questions here. I have already shared them ack with the team and we will work on answers. It might take a bit, but we will address the whole PAL compatibility topic. We also have a lot of open questions about 7800 functionality that need to be addressed. As for the question "does HDMI output a clear image" .. in my experience yes indeed. I had an Atari 2600+ at Gamescom hooked up via HDMI to a monitor I purchased at a local electronics store in Cologne, and it looked amazing. Crisp graphics.

Thanks for your suggestions

I'll ask

Interesting question.