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🕹️ GREAT turnout for our Super Mario Land Squad Challenge! Congrats to everyone who played!
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🕹️ Happy #AtariDay!
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🕹️ Happy Atari Day!! Let's make the most of it!
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- Sabertooth and HDN
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That's right! It's the 26th day of the month. Happy Atari Day, Justin. :O)
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🥳 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the legendary @RickR!
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🤔 Has anyone ever gotten around to 3-D Printing an Atari Panther shell?
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3D renderings of the proposed design for the Atari Panther shell have been pretty popular over the past few years, I would be surprised if somebody hasn't "made a Panther" yet.
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🤔 Have you found all the new Badges? More are on the way!!
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- greenween and Sabertooth
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Hi @- Ω -, We have anniversary Badges but I disabled them - There are numerous accounts of people who took 2 mins to sign up and never did anything with them. No posts, no engagement, zero participation. Those inactive accounts shouldn’t be rewarded with Badges every year for merely existing. I want our Badges to reward activity and achievement. We replaced the “Anniversary” Badges with Streaks Badges that reward daily participation, with rewards for 7 Day, 30 Day, 100 Day, and 365 Day login streaks! Can you unlock them all? 😄
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It'll be impossible for me to do 365 days. Life gets in the way.
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@- Ω - That’s what makes it an achievement. If you didn’t have to strive to earn a badge - it would be without meaning. It wouldn’t have value. If it was easy for everybody to have a 365 day badge it would lose its specialness. Only the purest of hearts will achieve the rarest of badges.
It’s not about quantity it’s about rarity. The badges aren’t about “how many you have“ it’s about “what have you done, where have you been?” Badges act as mile markers along our path. They are to chronicle and remind us of the things we’ve done in the site, the events we’ve taken part in, the little “rocks and stones” we’ve turned over along the way. Like writing “Omega was here” on the wall and leaving it behind.
Every time you partake in an event, join in a Squad Challenge, create a new club or blog - it’s another chance to unlock something new. There are even hidden Badges for secret achievements that we haven’t announced! Almost like a scavenger hunt! You never know when the next thing you do will unlock a Badge, or when you'll be recognized for a "good deed". It’s not supposed to be easy or anything short of “nearly impossible”
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🏈 Hope everybody enjoyed the Superbowl! Today is the last day for 10-Yard Fight! Tomorrow we begin a new Squad Challenge for TG16
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🤯 How did WB own Atari, DC comics & Looney Tunes, & not see that games can be cartoons & characters
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It's not even about "capitalizing on existing ip" with games based on Warner franchises, it's simply how they missed the potential of 8-bit gaming as a platform for characters and storytelling that we saw explode with Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Metroid, etc. Atari had all of the components and nobody put the pieces together.
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And another thought on this topic. Atari never followed up properly on the great games they did create. For example, Adventure is one of my all-time favorite games. Most gamers of my vintage also love the game. Yet Atari never followed up on it. It wasn't until Nintendo "Legend of Zelda" for NES that we saw a real continuation on the theme. What a waste.
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I often wondered that myself. There was a LOT they could have done and got something decent out of killing 2 birds with one stone. They could have used a DC comic series and made an adventure game out of them, they could have had some Looney Tunes characters be in some sort of arcade style game. There was lots of opportunities. The only one I seen was the DC comics packed inside some 2600 games but I often wondered why just the 2600 titles? How come the 5200 and Atari home computer people were not included with that? I guess we weren't special enough. 😞
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🤔 How do you say it?: S’ness or S.N.E.S. I’ve always said “Super NES”
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@atarilbc YESS‼️
The "S'ness" thing drives me nuts too! I never once heard that once when Super Nintendo was new or for the first 15 years afterward. It was only when retro gaming became a thing on YouTube that I heard other people say "S'ness" and it was cringe.
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Sneeze...just kidding S.N.E.S.
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🧠 I hope everybody active on here feels like a valued part of a welcoming & active community
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@RickR @MaximumRD @DegasElite @Gianna So glad to hear it! You guys are what make our forums a COMMUNITY! That's the most special quality of Atari I/O, one that cannot be replicated anywhere else ☺️
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The "S'ness" thing drives me nuts too! I never once heard that once when Super Nintendo was new or for the first 15 years afterward. It was only when retro gaming became a thing on YouTube that I heard other people say "S'ness" and it was cringe.
