Justin
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🤔 I wonder who the first company will be that creates a mobile app for hiring private security in 24 hours or less
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🤯 PS5 looks like a 2050 maxi pad dispenser. Disappointing!
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You know, I think it looks a lot better in the horizontal position.
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📞 One Friday night as a young man I prank called Jack Tramiel. Had him on the phone for 3 mins. Not my proudest moment, but I should tell that story sometime.
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Did you ask about the SwordQuest sword over his mantle?
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🕹️ We're a champion of original Atari games because we genuinely like these games. We love these games for what they are the way we love Drive-In B-movies
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🖖 Science fiction has always been the frontier for legitimate future predictions. Technology is what changes us more than anything else. Imagining what could be created, and what the effects are on culture and behavior, thats where genuine insight is found.
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🏆 BIG THANKS to @RickR who generously donated a pile of unused Combat cartridges to the site for use on future projects.
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💎 Desert Falcon High Score Squad Challenge is up!
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That's great news @BlackCatz40 I hope you do!
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Get ready! We have Squad Challenges coming up for Atari 7800 and TurboGrafx-16
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Sweet! Looking forward to it.
I see a lot of TG-16-Mini reviews on YouTube, so hopefully we'll get a nice turnout for that system.
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🍄 I think the Mario character looks better in the 2600 version than in the NES. He's bigger, he has more detail. It's a less iconic sprite but he's big and has a larger Bonk-esq head.
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🎈 Working hard to keep the timeline positive lately. Lots of people feeling uncertain, Atari I/O will always be a positive place to escape to
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“We’ll be best friends forever, wont we, Luigi?” The greatest stories always begin with humble beginnings. This is one of the most prized items from my collection. All great adventures have to begin somewhere.
Mario & Luigi started their adventures together here in these socketed EPROMS. Not many people in this world get to say they have a “prototype Mario” anything, for any system. How do I even have this? It should be in the Smithsonian. I count myself among the very fortunate few to have something this special, where it all began.
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🕹 Quarantine’s had me watching a lot of @btbfilms76 on YouTube and finding new reasons to appreciate the Atari 7800. At its heart is the soul of the 2600 and so much untapped potential.
It’s a shame the people who bought Atari just as the 7800 was about to be released didn’t see it as a priority or invest in further development of the system and develop games that would push the boundaries of what this insane machine could really do.
Releasing an updated system bundle by 1987 also would’ve helped, something that included two of the 7800’s D-Pad Controllers, the light gun, and an exciting game or two that would really make Atari shine in the minds of gamers everywhere.
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🤔 TV connections and Control Pads for 2-Players would’ve stepped up the Lynx’s style to a true game system! And Atari would’ve had a true home console to fight in the 16-Bit wars!
I have this theory that most handheld gaming wasn’t done walking around with a portable in your pocket.
I think the best handheld gaming was done at home, lying on the floor with snacks and a movie playing on the tv in the background on a cozy Saturday afternoon. Or on long car rides during summer road trips, chilling out in the back seat with a drink, and holding it comfortably in your lap. So how much did “pocket size” really matter?
Lynx and Switch share a similar take on portable gaming, the idea of a full-blown game system portable enough to stuff into your bag and take with you anywhere.
GameBoy came out at about the same time as Lynx, but they had two different ideas of what a portable game system should be. GameBoy became popular using the WalkMan approach of being tiny, simple, and sorta inexpensive. Lynx couldn’t fit into your pocket as easily, but offered more in terms of graphics and a full-color screen.
