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Adam Ward, Executive Producer of the forthcoming The Power of Glove documentary, has provided us with a nice (never before seen) image of Keith Robinson sitting at his desk at Intellivision Productions. I've assisted in the making of The Power of Glove and helped to arrange an interview with Keith that will appear in their film. The Power of Glove tells the history of Mattel's Power Glove for the NES, and Keith's participation provided a key backstory to Mattel's involvement in the video game industry - and their trepidation of getting back into it after the collapse. Intellivision was fortunate to have Keith, he was a wonderful "keeper of the flame" for Intellivision's legacy and represented Intellivision well wherever he went. I'm sad he's gone.
 

My tribute to Keith Robinson.  Rowsdower70, I hope you don't mind I used your picture at the end of the video...
 

here is my Atari 5200 Stargate prototype for your enjoyment. this is an official original prototype that came out of atari and is not a reproduction game. this is what Stargate would have been had atari put it out in 1984. enjoy,
 
thanks,
 
lance
www.atarisales.com

Yes, it's that time again: episode 13 of The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast is available for your listening needs! Arcade vector graphics come to the Atari 7800 courtesy of the famous Bob DeCrescenzo!
 
http://fab4it.com/homebrew78/media/hbh_episode_013.mp3
 
Show notes at homebrew78.fab4it.com

Sharing this interesting post made today over on Atariage  
 
 
Posted Today, 10:03 AM
 
Hi guys, I'm Andrew Steel from Hyperkin. First I want to thank you all for your support, it means a lot to our company and to me personally. I'm very excited to work on this project, aiming to make it as good as it gets. That's why I'm here to share my thoughts and hear your opinions. We did license Stella and obtained a custom build with a few important improvements. As many of you noticed, there is a 2-seconds loading screen when you hotswap the game. It is actually there only to ensure the hotswap procedure happens smoothly. It is only a prototype for now, and we didn't want any hiccups to occur at E3. In the final version the loading screen will be gone, because I think normally users wouldn't mind hitting Reset if the console occasionally attempts to read the cart earlier than it's fully inserted.
 
It is a very challenging task to cover the vast library of games and homebrews. But I know that supporting certain things is cruicial, so we went an extra mile and developed a way to work with Harmony. I cannot guarantee that this feature will still be present in the final release due to certain potential legal concerns, but we all understand its importance to the scene and will do our best to keep it.
 
Our primary goal is to ensure good compatibility with real cartridges because well, they are awesome, and the 2600 is actually a quite affordable platform to collect for. Please message us with your contact info if you are willing to jump on board and offer your help with testing the system for compatibility. Also, since we officially partner with the scene, I would actually prefer for the system to be open-source. In my envision, it will ship with our own Stella build, hardware-wise prepared to be tinkered with -- just in case if someone out there wants to remove or add any features they want.

We understand that the system has to be affordable, so our target price is 50 USD, give or take. Too early to state it firmly and predict the costs, we are still working on the features. I think it generally would be a bad idea to add some extra hardware just to support a peripheral used in 2-3 games and make the system way too expensive, so we expect to go for a good balance of what it does and what it does not. Again, if you are willing to offer your help with that, even just an opinion, please don't hesitate and message me and our R&D department at developer@hyperkin.com.
 
As it is for now, I can confirm that our newest build has the following working physical buttons that we plan to bring to the front: reset, select, save, load; a few buttons on the back: difficulty, game mode, color/bw/scanlines, aspect ratio, glitch switch. As most of people who came to talk to me and to try to earlier prototype, it plays games in clear HD without any noticeable issues. As for the controller to ship with the system, we expect to stick to the classic design with a paddle wheel on the side or perhaps just around the stick. It's our own design but of course original joysticks will work as well. I'd personally refrain from anything D-pad based because if you want one, you can use a Genesis controller, but please feel free to share your thoughts. Now, the release date, we will try to make it happen before Christmas. It is also a very challenging plan, but we work hard to make it happen. 
 
And for those of you who wonder in the previous posts, your humble servant is 32

Oh, cool!

The Six Flags in NJ has two main themes:  Looney Tunes and DC Comics.  They have a wooden rollercoaster that I underestrimated!  

Our friends at The Retroist posted a nice article on Keith's passing. You can view it here:
 
 
 

 
 
From: The Retroist
Farewell, Keith Robinson – Mr. Intellivision
Believe it or not, he was a better pitchman than George Plimpton
http://www.retroist.com/2017/06/15/farewell-keith-robinson/

I wont be disappointed as my expectations are based in a realistic view of modern "Atari" and the current market, in other words I am not expecting much at all   Atari CEO confirms the company is working on a new game console   "We're back in the hardware business," he said.
 
Chesnais declined to describe a lot of details about the console. But he said it is based on PC technology. He said Atari is still working on the design and will reveal it at a later date.
https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/16/atari-ceo-confirms-the-company-is-working-on-a-new-game-console/
 
Based on PC Technology and able to emulate classic ATARI ? Finally!!!!!!!......oh wait.........been doing that for years........oh that's right, now it will have the "official" license from "Atari" which of course has nothing to do with the Atari we all knew and loved but hey, it's official! Just more whoring of the Atari brand to us desperate for Atari Nostalgia of years gone by. So far the Retron77 seems more interesting imho. 

The Six Flags in NJ has two main themes:  Looney Tunes and DC Comics.  They have a wooden rollercoaster that I underestrimated!  

That's cool.  They don't have that in the NJ park.  That's one cool thing about the Six Flags parks, they are not all the same.  I should go to the one in Georgia at some point.  

Which Six Flags did you go to? These are fun parks.  I have been to the one in New Jersey.  

That's cool.  They don't have that in the NJ park.  That's one cool thing about the Six Flags parks, they are not all the same.  I should go to the one in Georgia at some point.  

Oh i also took a video of this boat ride through a mansion. I wish i wouldnt have stopped the video because all of the animatronics kinda get possessed and all their eyes go red and theh start screaming at you. But there was a drop and i dint want to drop my phone
 

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/118294/microsoft-uses-ai-beat-ms-pac-man

Oh, that is really sad news.    He sure was a nice guy.  I'm glad I got to meet him.  May he rest in peace.

Very nice!  So, worth the wait.  

This thing is in such good shape. It looks like it just came off the shelf.

I got this on email today and I'm curious as to what it is.  Looks like Atari has some new piece of hardware being released.  It's anyone's guess as to what this will be.  I doubt it'll be a console but looks like they are trying to emulate the design of the 2600.
 





https://www.ataribox.com/ 
 

This is a must-buy!

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a screw up by the USPS.  My aunt sent a package to my parents two weeks ago from Miami to Puerto Rico.  The package ended up in Tampa and then it was returned as "undeliverable" to my aunt.  They never even sent it to the right place to begin with!  Worse part, she had to pay a second time to send the package.  I've also had packages returned to sellers because my address was "incomplete" or "address does not exist" despite the fact that my address has been correctly written. 

hi,
 
we might publish it. it depends on what i can do board wise.
 
and you are welcome.
 
lance
www.atarisales.com

(Willie!) so stoked that Venture has come out for the 5200! loved this game in the arcade!

Found at Goodwill.

My finds today. I finally found another 2600 game in the wild and bonus its a game i didnt have already. I have never played the gamecube gamebefore so got that and im a huge beatles fan so picked that up too. Also my favorite sports game ever NFL Blitz 2000!