Justin

Did you see the sweet prize that we're giving away for this series of the Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge?  It might seem silly, but the Atari Speaker Hats are surprisingly functional! 😉
A winner will be announced between now and mid-August! Series Four kicks off tomorrow and runs through December 31st!

Some news coming out of this weekend's BIG Festival in Brazil: Atari to demo two previously announced titles...
A new Haunted House and Quantum Recharged!
Quantum: Recharged should be amazing if its anything like the arcade. I love Atari's willingness to mine deep cuts for the Recharged series.
Looking forward to a new Haunted House too!  I wonder if it will be an expansion on Haunted Houses from Atari50 or a whole new game?

PSA: AtariAge "last chance" sale. Get 'em while you can.
 

The retro setup in my office is coming along--not quite as far as I had hoped to be but still made a lot of progress the past few days. I'm very happy that my Atari consoles are all hooked up for easy access. Only the Jaguar (inside a drawer), Dreamcast, and Core Grafx are not connected. I think I might be able to stack the Jag on top of the PS2.
I even set up the 1702 I picked up a few months ago from the same TV tech that I got my Sony TV from last month. The 800XL setup is in the same corner location where my consoles used to live. Now I need to set up the FujiNet and SD Max that I bought a while ago. I am so close to being able to start typing in code from Compute! and other magazines like I did as a kid.

Happy Father's Day!
Take some time off, daddy dudes and play a new game for an old system and win some cool prizes! Attack of the Retscii Robots is available for over 15 classic systems, including the Genesis, NES, Atari 7800, Amiga, Commodore 64 and beyond. Bounties are available at Twin Galaxies (dot) com. Get into the game! #attackofthepetsciirobots #the8bitguy #atari7800

https://youtu.be/q1ZKyHCxW8Y

Happy Father’s Day 2023 to my fellow dads and men who are mentoring and bringing up the next generation.

A tale from the suburbs
My wife and I were driving to church yesterday for early morning prayer. We saw a group of crows on road which is not an uncommon scene. As we approached them, all flew away as expected except for one. I'm not sure if it was eating something on the road, but at the last minute after all its buddies had already fled, it raised its head and saw us.
Maybe I've watched too many Looney Tunes, but I swear it's expression was like, "What's going on? Where did everybody go? Oh!" BAM! I heard a loud thunk as we passed over the spot where the crow was. I looked back and saw the crow looking plastered on the road with one wing up twitching. Another crow came back and was like "Are you ok, bruh?"
When we returned to the scene three hours later, there was nothing on the road. The crow must have survived somehow and flew away. It was hit very hard if the sound of the impact was any indicator, so it was shocking to see that it must have survived.
My wife was a bit shaken as she was the driver, and it was the first time that she had run into an animal. Suffice to say, she also survived and is doing well.
I've heard that crows are very intelligent birds. But of course, there's always an exception to any rule. 

Time just flies by. I can't believe it's already been a week since my birthday. This year, I celebrated it with gifts, family dinner, and lunch with former coworkers. It was a fun one, so I wanted to share.
Family dinner at the restaurant of my choosing. Son 2's girlfriend joined us.

My wife forgot to bring the cake to the dinner, so we had it when we returned home 😂 My family isn't much into cakes, so that's why it's small.

My former co-workers from my Amazon days. Mathias' (guy on the far left) birthday is in a couple of weeks. We had this thing going for a few years where I bought him lunch on his birthday and he bought me lunch on my birthday. This year, we broke tradition. Although he wanted to pay, I beat him to the machine with my card. It's been a few years since we got together, so I wanted to buy. He's going to buy me lunch later this month. These guys were my engineers when I managed the Fire tablet localization.

Gift from my son and his girlfriend. My son was very surprised when I told him that I didn't have the NES. Well, I fixed that a few days later. I bought a NES top loader. It's been sent to get the RGB mod, so I'll show it off when I get it back in a few weeks.

Home-made candles were gifted to me from a church friend. I don't think my photo does it justice--it's very beautiful and very fragrant.

WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE REVIEW OF E.X.O. Muddyfunster has allowed Atari7800Forever.com to get the first crack at reviewing the maze shooter/ adventure E.X.O. This review exhibits gameplay footage from all 5 worlds and has images never seen before online.
Muddy has some exciting news about this game coming soon, and Funkmaster V goes over the highlights and the lowlights of this much anticipated 7800 Homebrew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQGVdCmR7Ec

Sitting at the mall waiting for my wife to pick me up, just finished diabetic blood work I do every three months, I’d walk but having problems with my Achilles tendon again dammit. Limping like a mofo 😜🤷🏼‍♂️. 

Warming up this week, hope we can resist turning on the A/C. 🤷🏼‍♂️😎I tend to worry more for the Desktop staying cool 🖥️

ICYMI: Folks, please check out the amazing overview of ClubVCS & Atari I/O that our friend@Ballistik put out today!
We appreciate the kind words & your participation in the club! Atari I/O is all about community & love of retro.
Thanks so much for helping to get the word out about our corner of Atari fandom &  ClubVCS!
 

Happy Atari Day!  Why not celebrate by buying a VCS console/bundle or other merch from Atari this weekend.  Great sale going on now.
 

🕹️ Join us this month for a CAVERNS OF MARS High Score Double Feature on Atari VCS & Atari 8-Bit Computers! 
 

Happy Atari Day! 

Well, April is shaping up to be a decent month for VCS releases.  Heroes of Loot 2 dropped on 4/21, Escape from PoPo is expected 4/26 and Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence is due out 4/28.  Not bad for a system that was reportedly DOA two years ago.
 

Interesting article on modern day Atari and its turnaround efforts. 
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/17/atari-wade-rosen-interview
 

Happy Easter folks. 🐰
 

A new game for the JaguarVR from Atari!: 
Basic Math: 7 ATE 9
https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari-goes-all-in-on-horror-with-basic-math-seven-ate-nine
 

🏴‍☠️ Our hosting platform experienced a bit of downtime overnight. If you were unable to get into the Forums, it wasn't anything specific to Atari I/O, just some general maintenance on our platform's end.

🏴‍☠️ Our hosting platform experienced a bit of downtime overnight. If you were unable to get into the Forums, it wasn't anything specific to Atari I/O, just some general maintenance on our platform's end.

🏴‍☠️ Our hosting platform experienced a bit of downtime overnight. If you were unable to get into the Forums, it wasn't anything specific to Atari I/O, just some general maintenance on our platform's end.

🏴‍☠️ Our hosting platform experienced a bit of downtime overnight. If you were unable to get into the Forums, it wasn't anything specific to Atari I/O, just some general maintenance on our platform's end.

When is E.T.: Recharged coming out for VCS??

 

Here's a new interview with Atari CEO, Wade Rosen. Worth a look if you're interested in modern day Atari.  The VCS gets a mention too at the end...
https://venturebeat.com/games/how-atari-is-leveraging-50-years-of-nostalgia-wade-rosen-interview/