+frankodragon Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 I don't what the badges on Fecalbook are for but this one comes to mind... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCAT Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 (edited) I just made a home made pizza from scratch, I burned my pointing finger when I tried to remove it. I just wanted to say that if I had made Tacos, this would have NEVER happened. When this debacle comes to an end, how will I be able to point and accuse? Learn from my mistake, make the correct choice.. Tacos. Edited November 1, 2019 by OCAT 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 I said quesadillas are better, & generally that's true, but Fuzzy's quesadillas are soggy, so if you go there get Tacos. Their chips are amazing tho. Love that white cheddar. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Dunno what a fuzzy quesadilla is but it sounds dirty 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy the Atarian Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 (edited) "Please don't say a Nintendo or Sega game, please don't say a Nintendo or Sega game, please..." *And it's supposed to be "There's" https://twitter.com/atari/status/1190346595381972992 Edited November 1, 2019 by Shaggy the Atarian Had to fix the tweet, which wasn't embedding right 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBeefy Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 So is this the VCS Twitter mocking the backers, or being self aware? Or am I missing something? It has been a long day. 1 1 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBerel Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 I'm guessing it was Atari paying their usual attention to detail. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Osgeld said: Dunno what a fuzzy quesadilla is but it sounds dirty A quesadilla from Fuzzy's Taco Shops, a regional Tex-Mex chain. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaysWithWolves Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 36 minutes ago, JBerel said: I'm guessing it was Atari paying their usual attention to detail. Have no fear, Uber Strategist is back on the job: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoJoe Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Last I tried, emulating N64 games wasn’t a great experience. How bad could streaming N64 games be? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom_of_Krankor Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Can’t play N64 games on something that doesn’t exist. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Tallarico Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 (edited) On 10/29/2019 at 10:33 AM, Mockduck said: I don't see how a studio will be able to justify releasing on the Amico unless Tommy and company are offsetting things with direct funding. Yes... we are direct funding every project. We are handpicking the best developers in the world and they absolutely love working on the system as it takes them back to a much easier time when the main focus was just doing a simple and great game where gameplay and design was the most important thing. Not the graphics. And to keep this on topic... Atari was initially reaching out to developers to create games for the new machine. That all went away by the beginning of this year. Probably because they didn't have money to fund game development. My understanding is that there are currently no developers working on Atari VCS games. We currently have 40 developers working on over 50 games and are looking to hire 20 more over the next 6 months. The issue you mentioned is exactly the issue they are having (not us). We are doing the exact opposite of them. I knew from the very beginning when we started this over 2 1/2 years ago that the GAMES and GAME DEVELOPERS are the most important things in making a new platform successful. Without that you just have a portable emulator and streaming device. This is also why all of our games are exclusive to our system. If I was going to attempt to just port games from other consoles... we'd be dead. Because ours will never look as good and our controllers aren't meant to play games like other controllers. We are creating to our strengths. I still say that Atari should just market the thing as a STEAM, MAME and INDIE box. Go ALL IN with that. Do a bunch of licensing deals and have a ton of stuff ready to purchase on the dashboard on day one. Edited November 2, 2019 by Tommy Tallarico 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 (I would used the font for the "Genesis Does" but the owner wants $45 for it.) 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoJoe Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 21 minutes ago, ColecoJoe said: What a giant nothing-(cheese)burger of an interview. Nothing can be gained from the words he spoke that couldn't be said as general statements not about Atari as a specific business. Par for the course I guess. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spriggy Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 7 hours ago, MrBeefy said: So is this the VCS Twitter mocking the backers, or being self aware? Or am I missing something? It has been a long day. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaysWithWolves Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 11 hours ago, PlaysWithWolves said: Have no fear, Uber Strategist is back on the job: I was being facetious when I posted that, but I'm curious: Do we really know Uber Strategist handles the @TheAtari_VCS account? Atari seems to outsource everything. I'm curious what their twenty employees actually do. Are they all CEOs, assistants, and lawyers? Now, let's talk Blade Runner (some emphasis, mine): BBC News- Blade Runner: How well did the film predict 2019's tech? Quote Atari is another big brand in the film. The video game pioneer was huge in arcades and homes in the 1970s and 1980s. And while it has since ceded ground to PlayStations, Xboxes and Switches, there are plans to breathe fresh life into the brand. A new Atari VCS throwback console attracted more than $2m (£1.54m) in pre-orders last year - but doubts have been raised as to whether it will ship by early 2020 as planned. Australian Broadcasting Corp: Blade Runner was set in November, 2019. Here's what it and other movies got right and wrong about the 'future' Quote Advertising is indeed very … in your face Perhaps the most spot-on element of modern life shown in Blade Runner is the overbearing advertising. Ridley Scott's Los Angeles is awash with obtrusive, vast electronic billboards, long before they became commonplace.auseGIF0.3 MBSettings The movie only gets some of the brands that have stuck around right, though. Yes, the likes of Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Tsingtao are still going strong, but Pan Am and, sadly, Atari are no longer around (the Atari of today is a completely different company). Science 2.0- It's November 2019 - How Close Did We Get To Blade Runner? Quote You can see the Pan Am logo in the screen cap, and the movie had numerous product placements, gaining producers some cash while promoting a corporate marketing future, but it, Atari, and Bell all collapsed afterward.(6) So the movie didn't get those right. [footnote reads: ] (6) Atari and Bell are still with us, though Atari is a shell of its former self ... 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaysWithWolves Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Whoops, double post. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 1 hour ago, PlaysWithWolves said: I was being facetious when I posted that, but I'm curious: Do we really know Uber Strategist handles the @TheAtari_VCS account? Atari seems to outsource everything. I'm curious what their twenty employees actually do. Are they all CEOs, assistants, and lawyers? The "Atari" social media posts are particularly inept, so it seems a shame one of the Atari principals can't take 15 minutes a day to post some blather about Pong. Lizzie Grubman is a bit of a celebrity herself, much more so than anything or anyone at "Atari." This is worth a read: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/fashion/lizzie-grubman-hamptons-publicist.html (even if it was likely written by Lizzie herself) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 46 minutes ago, Flojomojo said: The "Atari" social media posts are particularly inept, so it seems a shame one of the Atari principals can't take 15 minutes a day to post some blather about Pong. Lizzie Grubman is a bit of a celebrity herself, much more so than anything or anyone at "Atari." This is worth a read: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/fashion/lizzie-grubman-hamptons-publicist.html (even if it was likely written by Lizzie herself) Basically, Atari even fails at the part of the job that can literally be done while on the toilet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Historian Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 3 hours ago, PlaysWithWolves said: Now, let's talk Blade Runner (some emphasis, mine): Let's be real real clear. The deal that got the Fuji logo into the movie was made BEFORE Infogrames bought Atari. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 3 hours ago, The Historian said: Let's be real real clear. The deal that got the Fuji logo into the movie was made BEFORE Infogrames bought Atari. Was there even a deal? Blade Runner was produced by Warner Bros, which shared the same corporate parent as Atari at the time. Seems to me it was just obvious cross-promotion, or they couldn't sell all the spots once Coke, Cuisinart, Bell and Pan Am were done. Before they lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Before they discarded it. Before Infogrames dusted it off and took its name. Way before Chesnais fished it out of the trash and started playing silly attention-getting but substance-free games with it. Atari. Blockchain, Casino, Investments ... like never before! So much more than video games. ? NB Pan Am is an empty brand shell, too. https://panambrands.com/ Unrelated: plane crash behind Taco Bell last year. https://www.wsfa.com/story/38495248/plane-crashes-behind-taco-bell-in-alex-city/ 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TankedThomas Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 15 hours ago, ColecoJoe said: After watching this and the last interview posted with Fred, it seems to me that he's a decent businessman. Sure, what he says is fairly elementary, but he seems to understand marketing and such well enough. My point is that I'm having trouble deciding if he's just a con artist or if he's a scammer and an idiot. The latter seems less likely to me, but the state his company is in certainly doesn't look hot, so maybe I'm wrong. I have to wonder, if he had his own startup focused on something that he seems to be more "passionate" about (such as blockchain), would it be in the red like Atari SA or would he actually do a decent job? Or perhaps the question I should be asking is if he's intentionally doing a bad job for some reason or another. Or maybe he's just an idiot. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 1 hour ago, TankedThomas said: My point is that I'm having trouble deciding if he's just a con artist or if he's a scammer and an idiot. I don't think he's actually an idiot. Or a con artist. He just has absolutely no idea how to run Atari. He has no understanding of the video game industry, nor apparently any real interest in learning about it. So he's not an idiot. He's just completely and willfully clueless when it comes to video games. There's a difference. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 On 11/2/2019 at 12:28 PM, Flojomojo said: NB Pan Am is an empty brand shell, too. https://panambrands.com/ Pan Am's fate is sadder that Atari's; Pan Am lasted longer & had more history. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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