in 50 years: A company called microsoft is releasing a brand new Xbox S game this year.
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The wording is spot-on because it's not the same Atari that made the 2600, but it is in fact a company called Atari.
There's some justification with this, considering how many times Atari has been bought out
I have a feeling we will get Nintendo Wii Games to court what will become "retro nostalgia".
Micro Mages came out a few years ago on Steam and on NES. It’s a short game, but an audiovisual treat. 4-player, all on 40kb. The Atari is quite lower fidelity than an NES. Curious how it will turn out.
Similarly, in 2020 a game called Nox Archaist came out for the Apple ][. If you liked Ultima, you should check it out -- it even has a book sized manual to go with it.
I’m impressed they spent the time and money to make a new 2600 game. I’ve watched a few interviews of the original game developers in the 80’s and the development experience was far from what modern software development is today. A developer had to make sure the game and graphics logic were done in a specific number of cycles and everything is written in 6502 assembly.
Anybody remember the Atari VCS? It was such a total disaster that the developer of the first exclusive game on it wasn't notified that his game was going to be on the console.
I bought one. I just run Ubuntu on it as a htpc. I played with the Atari OS for about an hour. I still think it's a pretty box to run a pc in.
It was before my time. I'm a first was NES generation. How many Atari's were there? They all seem the same to me.
It was released 2 years ago! The fact that nobody's ever heard of it is another testament to modern Atari :^)
I see, I had no idea the old 2600 was called the VCS.
I guess that's yet another example of how confusing modern Atari is
The very fact that there is such a thing as modern Atari is, frankly, confusing. I haven't quite gotten over that revelation yet.
I’m still struck by the realization that, apparently, Hasbro no longer exists. It’s like a part of my childhood just died.
Wait, what happened to Hasbro??
It was renamed to 2600 after the release of the 5200.
I remember hearing about it years ago (four or five maybe) then it got delayed. And delayed again. Then it was released two years ago without me knowing lol.
Reminds me of the "Polaroid Story"
The company that owns the Polaroid brand and IP, PLR IP Holdings, LLC, was just sold by an ownership group led by the Pohlad family to an ownership group led by the Smolokowski family. The Pohlad family, which owns the Minnesota Twins baseball team, purchased its majority stake in Polaroid back in December 2014 for $70 million.
Although its iconic instant film and cameras may be out of production now, Polaroid the brand is still alive and well: through licensing agreements, a huge range of Polaroid products are still being sold in over 100,000 retail stores in over 100 countries around the world.