/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4127360
I guess that might be nice - but almost certainly not. Does this guy look like a coder to you? Or even someone who would hire coders? He probably doesn't even know Primal Rage 2 is a thing people want to play.

So...is it another Android based system?

>>4127360
Lol @ primal rage being a selling feature of anything

>>4127380
atari-fags blown the fuck out.

>>4127374
iirc it'll be pc based, think recased unsold alienware alpha

>http://www.eurogamer.net/amp/2017-07-17-first-look-at-ataris-newest-console
“To limit risk taking, this product will initially be launched within the framework of a crowdfunding campaign”
Wow, it's fucking nothing.

>>4127360
Atari ain't Atari, it's infogrames
>>4127430
Ouya 2.0

>>4127437
What if it was the Ouya platform done right?

>>4127437
>Atari ain't Atari, it's infogrames
That gets said a lot here but from a /vr/ perspective it doesn't accurately convey the horrors of the post-/vr/ era. To us, Infogrames is eh pretty cool guy, acquired GT Interactive and doesn't afraid of anything. However, since then it completely went to hell and has become basically a shambling, animated corpse currently inhabiting the body previously known as Atari.

Pic related is one of their four current products. Another is an Alone in the Dark game that was literally-literally the worst game of 2015.

>>4127497
>pridefest
Noahnide Pinko shit.

It is a WIFI router? lol

>>4127360
>Will we finally get an arcade perfect version of primal rage and primal rage 2?

I'd buy it if it came with that, but they'll probably put a dozen or so 2600 romz on it and some sort of Atari-Shop where you can buy more 2600 games for only 5 bucks a rom.

Because just like /vr/ is full of 24 year olds who only know about the NES, Atari is run by guys who only know of the 2600.

>>4127726
There are a few who know about the arcade games and the 7800. Look at the Atari Flashback 1 and some of the Atari collections on DS and PSP.

>>4127380
I remember that being such a hot shit game when it came out. It's a bit surprising how it's not really even remembered anymore.

>>4127360
Because it's just more bullshit without the jaguar case.

>>4128538
except the jag didnt have an arcade perfect port of primal rage

Only reason why I'm excited for it is because it seems like a good console to develop my own little games for.

>>4128582
Maybe Android might be a better choice.

I just have one question: will it include the ET game?

>>4127360
Because everything under the Atari name has been a total fucking disaster since the early 80s.

>>4127497
Hey don't forget about me!

>>4128563
Neither will retro chameleon redouche

>tfw SEGA launches their version of this "mini" nonsense and becomes the best selling console of 2018.

>>4128859
Isn't only the first one actually relevant and Infogrames had little to do with its quality?

>>4128905
I brought that reboot up because it's one of the first games that came out after Infogrames bought Atari.

>>4127497
Whats made this game so bad?
I never played it/ heard of it

Can it even play physical games or just digital? Because if it's digital, then it's basically DOA.

>>4128908
OH GEE I DUNNO YOU DUMB FAGGOT MAYBE BECAUSE IT PANDERS TO FUCKING DEGENERATE SCUM?!

>>4128960
Hi there! I see that are a fan of papercraft & origami. That's great, but this is the retro games board, and I think that you'll be much more at home with fellow papercraft enthusiasts on /po/.

Have a good day!

But will it have V-Rally and Stuntman?

>>4127360
what the fuck does it do?

>>4128975
>calls other people /pol/
>while defending a "game" that does nothing but push a political agenda

>>4129035
I'm not defending shit, but if cool spot can be a good game despite its entire purpose being to sell 7up, who knows? Pridefest could be good.

>>4129041
>I'm not defending shit
Yes you are and if you keep defending it I will have to stop you...

Will the Ataribox have a cartridge slot? Will the Ataribox be able to do what the Coleco Chameleon couldn't? Is it true YouTubers killed the Coleco Chameleon because they were afraid of their cartridge hoards becoming devalued and obsolete?

>>4129061
>Will the Ataribox be able to do what the Coleco Chameleon couldn't?
Have a real prototype?

>>4129054
Why would I defend it? I haven't played it, and judging by the fact that it's a mobile game it's probably shit. But it's not automatically shit just because it's about managing a pride festival. Great games have been created from worse premises than that.

>>4129061
>Is it true YouTubers killed the Coleco Chameleon

It didn't need any help from youtubers.

>>4128893
Sega were doing plug and plays before it was cool, another one won't be a game changer

>>4129072
Because you're nothing but a fucking degenerate now irfjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

>>4128859
I have that game and I thought it was fine, no worse than the contemporary Silent Hill game. There was ANOTHER bankruptcy/hollowing of the company in 2013 though and the AitD game that came out after that is... I mean... Just go look for yourself if you haven't seen it.

>>4128908
I'm sure I have no idea if it's good or bad either because it has absolutely no appeal to me. Way, way back in the 90s I used to be supportive of "pride" when I used to date "bisexual" girls before I discovered that any girl will do anything you like if she likes you enough and counter-intuitively the ones with the most "pride" are the ones most likely to have weird hangups.

>>4129270
We must have played totally different games theb because the version of Alone in the Dark I played had me constantly falling through the level during a car sequence at the end of the first chapter however it was done during a camera angle that didn't make it possible for me to notice so I was stuck for days doing the same thing over and over and over again thinking it was MY fault and not the game's shitty programming until I made a new file and redid it. The game had potential to be good and a great soundtrack but god damn was it a buggy mess.

>>4129310
I played the 360 version. I know what part you're talking about and it definitely has some blind corners leading to bottomless pits but I negotiated it on maybe the fourth or fifth try from memorizing where the falls were. I guess you had a glitch. Sometimes games have glitches, especially PC games and some are glitchier than others. Like Morrowind for example was glitchy as fuck but still a great game.

>>4127360
because its a piece of dookie.

>>4128893
Sega's been doing this shit for a decade now and there's a million versions of the Genesis plug-n-Play stuff everywhere.

>>4130690
This new one looks promising though.
HDMI, wireless controllers, and a cartridge slot. If the emulation isn't fucked then I might get one.

>>4130690
Are any of these genesis plug and plays good?

>>4130734
Some have really shit sound.
I looked on youtube a while ago, the one that only has Sonic games seems to have fixed it.

>>4130734
The Radica ones seem to be a bit better than the current AtGames ones, especially in the sound department. The AtGames ones have sound that is unfathomably bad. It's not the emulation either as the sound is still fucked even when playing off a physical game.
Whatever sound chip they've got in it is just horrid.

The ones in that image are from Radica, and they are pretty damned good actually.

If the specs are good enough I'll get for the homebrew. Softmodded Wii is gonna die on me any time now

>>4127360

I loved my 2600 when I was a kid. I'd love a NES or SNES Mini.

This thing does not even slightly excite me for some reason

Probably my PC full of 2600 roms that I've played to death over the last 20 years

Which way can they possibly go with this? They already re-released classic games dozens of times. Everything else plays... everything else.
Literally Ouya 2.0

>>4130876
>Which way can they possibly go with this?

"hey nintendo is making a bunch of money with those classics"
"let's do that too"
"great meeting guys bonuses all around"

>>4127360
>yfw you will never ever get arcade perfect SF Rush games

>>4130876
>Which way can they possibly go with this?
I already said. Primal Rage 1+2. You seriously don't understand how popular they were back in the day

>>4130908
>tfw had Primal Rage for Genesis
>got bored with it after an hour and went back to MK2

>>4130910
genesis port is literally the worst port

>>4130903
Do you live in Pripyat or something
literally what new things can this bring to the table
>>4130908
I was there, dawgg. It was bangin but I honestly have never meet anyone and had them tell me how much they fantasized about playing PR2.

>>4127360
I know most of you will laugh at it but if it is x86 or android and its at least as powerful as the nvdia shield TV im sold. Ill use it for kodi.

>>4130690
I used to own one of these back when they came out and it was the only system I had at the time.

>>4130759
>It's not the emulation either as the sound is still fucked even when playing off a physical game.
It's still emulation, even when played off cartridges. All these AT Games and Retron things just dump the ROM from the cartridge and emulate. That's why the sound sucks.

>>4130952

I'm just telling you what likely happened, bro. I could not be less interested in the thing as described.

>>4128952
who buys physical games? why would that be a selling point?

>>4131657
aren't they just cheap hardware clones? an emulation based clone would be way more expensive.

>>4127360
But Atari games cost like a quarter OP

>>4131657
>>4132860
Up until this year, the AtGames Genesis stuff was cheap hardware clones with bad sound replication.
The new one they're releasing this year is software emulation, presumably Linux on an ARM chip. The sound will probably not suck as much as the hardware clones, though who knows what emulator they're using.

>>4133185
That's what I thought. It's genuinely shocking to me how many people on /vr/ think that the majority of clone consoles are emulation based.

From what ive heard it will be re-branded SteamBox and online connectivity is solved through Amazon Web Services.
There are already small studios that reported they have games ready for the console.

>>4133434
The majority of clone consoles that their moms husband bought them are emulation based.

>>4133586
99% of clone consoles on the earth are hardware clones, it's ludicrous to imply that the Retron 5 and the Retro Freak make up some huge majority of purchases when SOAC hardware clones have been on the market for 20 years.

>>4133586
kek, I guess I keep forgetting it's July.

>>4133460
From what I've heard, that would be a cost-inefficient (read: stupid) thing to do.

>>4133586
>their moms husband
This is as bad as "my wife's son". Don't do it again.

>>4133723
>cost-inefficient (read: stupid)
Its not like steam boxes sold im sure they have piles of it.

>>4133723
>triggered by "my wife's son"
Hits too close to home?

>>4134946
>that's a bad joke anon
>KEK TRIGGERED MUCH LOLOLOL

>>4127360
The amazing thing is how much positive buzz this thing has generated in spite of nobody knowing anything about it, all the rumors sounding bad, and Atari being dead as a door nail

>>4134952
>triggering intensifies