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🕹️🤯 We now live in a world where Swordquest: Airworld exists. Let that sink in.
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🕹️🤯 We now live in a world where Swordquest: Airworld exists. Let that sink in.
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Anyone know if JUSTIN our site / community creator is OK? Concerned with the chaos of Hurricane Ian in Florida. I attempted to message him here and INSTAGRAM and noticed he had not visited here in a while so just wondering. Hope is is well. 🙁🤷♂️
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Congratulations to @Joe for winning our Yars: Recharged Squad Challenge with an amazing 128,700 points!
October's Recharged Squad Challenge is Donut Dodo! If you haven't played this game, I highly recommend it whether on the VCS, Steam, or iiRcade. If you have it on another platform, feel free to join in as a shadow player.
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We welcomed "Babytooth Retro" into the world this morning just before 6:00 am. Mom and baby girl are healthy and sleeping. I'm taking the time to improve my swaddle. 😅
I may not be as active in the coming weeks but will keep ClubVCS rolling.
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Lots of things happening at Atari 7800 Forever with the help of Silverback, Nikon, Crossbow, and that sexy bastard Dan Boris.
***Deciphering the Atari 50th Anniversary Collection Game List
***Ranking The Upcoming PRGE 9 Games from My Least Anticipated to Most.
***What Makes a "Super Game" Super?
***Silverback reviews Meltdown
***Silverback reviews Sentinel
Ch-ch-ch-check it out.
www.atari7800forever.com
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Lots of things happening at Atari 7800 Forever with the help of Silverback, Nikon, Crossbow, and that sexy bastard Dan Boris.
***Deciphering the Atari 50th Anniversary Collection Game List
***Ranking The Upcoming PRGE 9 Games from My Least Anticipated to Most.
***What Makes a "Super Game" Super?
***Silverback reviews Meltdown
***Silverback reviews Sentinel
Ch-ch-ch-check it out.
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ICYMI: Great conversation on the Atari Weekly Podcast with @BHG_Gaming , @RelicGamer and Dorkzide discussing the current console gen.
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Here's the tweet about the latest Squad Challenge, which has garnered a little attention especially among Atari fans:
https://twitter.com/retrowithmarco/status/1532230941157969921?s=20&t=QxK6D6cNtx0zksrtuN6UAw
I guess I'll have to track my progress as well!
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A new Recharged Squad Challenge is up at ClubVCS! This one really ROCKS!
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Really sad news via Marty Goldberg on Facebook:
It is with great sadness I announced the passing of Atarian Regan Cheng on April 4th after a two year battle with cancer. Regan was 1/2 of the world's first video game industrial design team consisting of him and Pete Takaichi under the leadership of George Faraco. Joining in 1972 while both were still pursuing a degree from San Jose State University, the duo designed Pong-In-A-Barrel as their first project before moving on to work on the infamous Gotcha cabinet. and a slew of others. Ronald Wayne (who would later go on to co-found Apple) went on to manage them after George's departure and by 1975 they were crucial to Atari's coin cabinet designs helping carve out Atari's unique look and feel in the arcades and were joined by Clint Graham, Phil Kearney, and Carl Lepinne. Iconic looking games like Night Driver, Evel Knievel and more.
Back in those days everything was done by hand, no modern CAD or design software. As Regan recalled last year regarding the days when Atari used off the shelf TV's in it's arcade games: "I recall us design guys creating the card board bezels to custom fit to each new TV. Took a while to do. We would trace the final pattern and give to a die cutting shop to make production parts. What a kick. Now we would use 3D CAD and 3D print . It was a kick."
Also in 1975 Regan became involved in Atari's foray into consumer products with Home PONG. By the early 80s he had left the Coin Division and was responsible for helping craft the futuristic look of Atari's home offerings like the Atari 5200 and their XL line of computers and products like the Atari 2600s Star Raiders controller as well as the phone products in Atari's pioneering AtariTel division.
Leaving Atari in 1983, he continued to play a role in Silicon Valley going on to work for such companies as Sigen Corporation, NAMCO, Data East, Global VR and Google (in their Google Fiber group). Regan is survived by his son, sister Donna, and a brother.
All product photos courtesy of the Atari Museum. Read more about Regan's contributions in Atari Inc- Business Is Fun and Tim Lapetino's book Art of Atari.
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NEWSFLASH: Atari terminates it's relationship with ICICB, ends current iteration of Atari Token and revokes licenses on hotels and casinos.
Basically, they continue to de-Chesnais the brand by undoing a lot of his deals and refocusing their energies on gaming. Although, they will be creating an internally managed token.
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Congratulations to @Joe for winning our very first ClubVCS Recharged Squad Challenge! He turned in an incredible score of 23,125 in Missile Command: Recharged to take the win! 💥💥💥
Next up is Centipede: Recharged up now through April 30th at ClubVCS!
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Atari formally sever their last remaining entanglements with former-CEO Fred Chesnais. The shift in direction since his departure has been positive. Hoping this is another step in a positive direction.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cbi-global-agreement-atari-unwind-163000823.html
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Ever since I heard that Popeye was almost the "Jumpman" in what turned out to be Donkey Kong, I always had a little hot thought... What if...
http://www.atari7800forever.com/sailorxplumber.html
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In recent years, I've seen that there has been some confusion and real life tears in regards to Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest. It all stems from Bobby D astutely inventing a "C Button" for the Pro System. Here's how to fix the confusion with the game in the modern age where people use emulation more than consoles.
https://www.atari7800forever.com/bentleybearbacklash.html
