Sabertooth

WOW Thank you @Sabertooth!! Every little bit helps to get the word out and build our community. Thank you for this

You're welcome @Justin ! Happy to help get the word out about the site and these awesome challenges when I can! 🕹️

Loved it.  Spot on.  Nice job @Ballistik

Such a fantastic community! Such a friendly & hard working moderator! Thanks so much for all you do, Sabertooth! We appreciate what you have done with this club! Trying to scream from the rooftops to get all VCS fans to join. It should literally be a no brainer 😉 Thanks again & all the best & continued success! I would love to see more folks participating in the challenges, too!

BCB

Representing the IO like a boss.  We are proud of you.

Thanks @RickR!  I do my best.  I'm waiting for @D.joe to wake up and knock me from the top spot. 😉

I will join in soon!  Too much to do, too little time. 

It will be great to see you in the board. I've improved my score a lot the last week.

For the Hardware section, I think it means the VCS is still in production...just manufactured externally now.  That's how I read it anyway.

The financial numbers are not good.  I hope every gamer here who appreciates the new direction of Atari understands...WE NEED TO SUPPORT THEM as best we can by buying hardware and software.  The games they've been producing have been outstanding. 

You're 💯 @RickR!  The last few years have been the best output from Atari since at least the Hasbro-era, if not the Tramiel-era.  Fans who appreciate the change in direction need to support the company.

The Recharged titles have been excellent and new IP like Kombinera is inventive and in the spirit of old Atari, and the VCS is a great achievement from such a small team. I understand skepticism among old skool fans, the XP debacle and crypto.  That said, credit where credit is due. 

I voted Yars', but they are all good.

I voted Yars' too but Breakout with the Classic is a close second after the recent fix. MCR 2022 is also a really solid entry to the series.

Breaking: Donut Dodo dev Pixel Games will send the winner of this Challenge a signed, sealed copy of their game Sir Lovelot for the Switch. How cool is that!?

Congrats @Joe!! 🙌🕹️

My mom lives in an assisted living facility, and I often think about what those places are going to look like when Gen X lives there.  Lots of arcade games, 80's music, and old consoles I hope. 

That's hilarious!  That could be a great business opportunity if someone designed some tabletop models that people in wheelchairs could use and went to the assisted living and/or nursing homes to sell them.

So awesome. 

One of the things that is markedly different than previous iterations of Atari is that Atari SA under its new CEO, Wade Rosen, seems to have been able to reconnect and work with former Atari programmers like Frye, Robinett & HSW.  I think all of this reflects a change in tone and approach at Atari. 

I ended up buying two.  Breakout and Gravitar Recharged.  I took a long hard look at Tempest 4k, but I don't think that's a good one for me personally. 

Glad that you could take advantage of the sale. Those two Recharged games are a steal at $5.

I think Rampage for the A7800 plays even better than the NES version. At least, it's truer-looking to the arcade with no added intermissions. The NES version has a chart of how much damage is done to the United States, while the arcade version doesn't have that. That is why i think the A7800 looks closer in that respect, plus the sprites do like the Muppet Babies. But that doesn't detract much from the game, at least to me.

Atari were great at making the levels in arcade copies close proximities to the arcade counterparts in most games. That is why I like Atari games so much. Thanks for letting me share. :O)

There is a hack KevinMos3 is making to make A7800 Rampage more arcade-accurate. I am sure you have heard about that. :O)

Super Breakout on the 2600! Or Warlords if that counts.

I stuck to Breakout titles for the video but its hard not to count Warlords, Off the Wall and Arkanoid! Crazy Brix for the 7800 is also amazing!

I didn't pick up on that until you pointed it out but I see it. I don't know if Atari has the rights to Jinks, but that game has a lot of potential if they can make it right. "A Paddle Platformer" where the paddle is like Mario, moving through a side-scrolling world with endless beautiful levels to explore. Admittedly, 7800 Jinks is unique in some ways and lacking in others. Maybe Jinks: Recharged could fulfill this side scrolling paddle potential

Very much so.  Now that you've pointed it out, that's all I see!

Not horrible! FANTASTIC!

I promise an unboxing post if these make it to market.

This is all good news

I am happy Frederic Chesnais left the Atari company. He didn't seem with it to me. Maybe, this Rosen guy has some smarts when it comes to games and gaming. :O)

Those are nice.  I dig the purple color. 

Haha that's @Atari Creep all the way!! 🕷️

Here's a spot on review of the game. (Switch)

https://youtu.be/q3rwx3mX7EM

Cool, thanks for the heads up.

I have read it and loved it.  I bought the Kindle version a few months ago. 

I had his "Once Upon Atari" video series in the 1990s, it was fascinating 

Wow! Would love to hear your thoughts about the classic style joystick

@Justin - So far the controllers are the most interesting thing about the hardware. The Classic Joystick works great as a paddle in 2600 games and as a rotary in Tempest arcade on the Vault. The game Thrustlander implements the rotation function wonderfully. As a normal 🕹️ it is also very nice. I've used it on Antstream for PacMan and Lock N Chase and it's been great. I'll probably do a full blog post once I spend more time with it. 

Congrats ! That's awesome! 😮😎🤘

I got one too about a week ago...but it has yet to arrive.  Exciting! 

Good to know! I'd like a McWill Lynx but the price is 😮 Maybe I'll dabble in Evercade and its Lynx games instead.

I've really enjoyed the Evercade. The collections so far have been pretty good, the screen is nice and HDMI out is a great touch. Also, having the collections on carts is fun and unique for an emulation system. I'm hoping they do a console version that takes the same software. 

P.S. In my humble opinion, The Cars 1979 eponymous debut is as close to a perfect record as exists in rock music. 

Oh man, super cool post. You've definitely got that Atari swagger.

I loved Gex on 3DO, Rayman on Atari Jaguar, and Clockwork Knight on Sega Saturn. I always thought Clockwork Knight had a lot of potential for Sega to do more with it. Knights was amazing.

I hope your surgery went well! 🦷

Awesome to see you posting reviews to your blog again!! Not a great game but a great review :]

Thanks, Justin! I'm glad you liked it. I'm going to try to post more regularly moving forward. There are a lot of Jaguar games yet to go through!

It's been a busy week, awesome to have you back in the forums atarilbc!

Good to see ya!