Exclusive to all press: Atari launches world's best ever games console

I'll keep my upright arcade version of Space Invaders.

With it's sideways screen.

The reason no-one could get the same "look" to their space-invader knock-offs (or is that "knocks-off?) is that to get the resolution right they turned the screen 90 degrees in the cabinet. You were actually playing the game sideways.

Of for such neato headslap solutions in this day and age. Now there would be huge investment and cost overruns trying to put more lines in a TV.

Can I just say to all the Atari haters that Pong Tanks is the greatest post-pub head-to-head mano-y-mano needlematch-grudgefest game ever invented since the Big Bang, and always will be.

Re: new ways for old days: Star Wars

I didn't bother at the cinema, so only just seen it. Bloody hell.

Re: Nostalgia ain't what I thought it would be

The high score? just below "Error checking TLS connection: Host is not running"

I guess it is how many dockers are under your command...

Re: Nostalgia ain't what I thought it would be

Immersion. The baddie that's shooting at me in,"Call of Honour: Operation Rogue Strike Attack 11," or whichever the hell it is that I have been assured that *this* one is different, looks quite real but inspires no emotion whatsoever. Whereas, a couple of distinctly not-real red glowing dots in the trees when I've just made it out of the Nether alive...that gets the juices going.

Also agree with the,"intro sequences," comment; I quite enjoy playing Forza but every time I think of firing it up I remember how long it takes to get to the actual game, and go do something else instead.

Re: Top article

An industrial design copied by Kempston, just with a knob on top and bigger buttons.

You must have had different Joysticks then. Back in the States My Atari Joystick would snap their Rings (That pressed the little foil coverd clickers), almost immediately as soon as you pluged the ruddy thing in. at least the Kempston, actually had Micro Switches built into the thing. IIRC. Maiking it 1,000x bettter then the thing Atari deciced to pack in with the 2600 VCS.

Re: Top article

In the late eighties, I actually acquired a set of two wireless joysticks for the 2600. They worked by radio, having metal antennas on like FM radio sets. Sadly they were next to useless for use on my MSX due to the single button, as most games required two buttons.

Joust you listen to me! This type of talk belongs in a Circus! Trolling like this will turn this thread into a Battlezone, I usually Dodge'Em but I as an original player of the 2600, I wanted to stop this chatter going on the Rampage!

Cmon guys, do the Basic Maths, this new Atari has a Stellar Track record ..they just need to sort out the Gremlins. Waiting for this console is no Picnic, but speculation is Out of Control! Hopefully we will all see Atari isn't Mr Don't...and is in fact Mr Do!

Ok,ok... I'm getting my coat..

Re: ET

So how long do you think till the SJWs get 'round to ruining ET as well?

No need. Seanbaby took care of that over a decade ago. Shame, really. I can think of many Atari 2600 games that were far worse than ET.

I'm looking at you, Pac-Man. Talk about a regressive game! It literally harms body positivity by thwarting the player's desire to eat as much as they wish. It's hurtful and disgusting. Oh, and it looked and played like a dumpster fire, too.

Re: ET

I do hope the world gets better for you white men soon, it's just been so hard on you all this time.

Re: Quite the sales pitch.

For maximum controller awfulness, you need to pass via an Intellivision. The Atari joysticks weren't great, and neither were the controllers for the Colecovision, but the Intellivision ones were infinitely worse.

Re: Quite the sales pitch.

"..get a Speccy or Vic20 in first."

I'd fit a ZX81 in there too, so they can learn patience (loading from cassette) and dealing with frustration (RAMPack wobble at line 398 - for the 2nd time).

Nothing like an early introduction to the harshness of life.

Re: C=64

20mins loading for non 'turbo' games.

Ha, yeah, as the lame-ass disk copy protection scheme forced the floppy drive to knock the head positioner into the plastic case over and over again. Gave new meaning to "head banger."