Atari reentering the video game hardware market

With all these companies trying to capitalise on the retro-gaming craze, this lack of creativity in the industry worries me. They're just trying to make money of games that are 10, 20 years old.

Then again, this isn't new. It's just become a fad with the casual gamer instead of the hardcore. And the plug-and-play ease of these gizmo's makes em easy to hook up for even the dumbest redneck looking for a Pac-man fix.

Oh well. Maybe it's good, maybe it's not.

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Originally Posted by DougDaBroadcasta

With all these companies trying to capitalise on the retro-gaming craze, this lack of creativity in the industry worries me. They're just trying to make money of games that are 10, 20 years old.

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I don't know what you're talking about.

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Originally Posted by Agent X

With regard to the other games, Alien Brigade and Meltdown would've required a light gun

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Alien Brigade is still joystick compatible though and plays well enough with it. I don't remember if Meltdown is.

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It would be Atari's "Agent X", a.k.a. Cloak & Dagger. I liked the Cloak & Dagger movie, which has a truckload of Atari references

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I saw the movie as a kid but I hardly remember it now.

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Originally Posted by DougDaBroadcasta

With all these companies trying to capitalise on the retro-gaming craze, this lack of creativity in the industry worries me. They're just trying to make money of games that are 10, 20 years old.

Then again, this isn't new. It's just become a fad with the casual gamer instead of the hardcore. And the plug-and-play ease of these gizmo's makes em easy to hook up for even the dumbest redneck looking for a Pac-man fix.

Oh well. Maybe it's good, maybe it's not.

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Very true man, with a few notable exceptions the games market these days is flooded with clones. Take a look on any game shelf and it's full of fps, stratagy or racing games all lacking individualality.. The only recent game thats grabbed me suprisingly is an fps game... Doom3 but no suprises there, the orginaters and masters ID software made it... In my view It's cool to make the same kind of game, but it has to add something to its specific genre, not just pack it full of flash graphics and fancy sound.

Either I'm getting older and more choosey, or games are getting more repetetive resulting in games companies rehashing the past...

The 7800 had good games like Ms Pac Man, Xevious, Dug Dug, of course those are Namco titles. Of the Atari stuff Ballblazer (with 5200 Pokey sound chip), Klax and Midnight Mutants would have been excellent choices. Not sure who has the rights to Xenophobe?
Anyway, cool to see something that looks like a 7800/proline controllers back in action.

Klax

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Its not even really Atari. Its just Infogrames trying to make some money because they certainly cant off the shitty videogames theyre publishing now.

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Truth. However...

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

It's not like they don't release new stuff. They publish some quality games. It's too bad no one bought Kya: Dark Lineage.

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This, and isn't Atari linked to Baldur's Gate III? I'm not sure what the game would be like without the original dev.'s involved, but I think this is something to watch.

They're supposed to be involved with Neverwinter Nights 2 as well, but I wasn't very keen on the first at all.

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Originally Posted by DougDaBroadcasta

With all these companies trying to capitalise on the retro-gaming craze, this lack of creativity in the industry worries me. They're just trying to make money of games that are 10, 20 years old.

Then again, this isn't new. It's just become a fad with the casual gamer instead of the hardcore. And the plug-and-play ease of these gizmo's makes em easy to hook up for even the dumbest redneck looking for a Pac-man fix.

Oh well. Maybe it's good, maybe it's not.

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Hollywood has been doing this for years now, so it's nothing new... only a matter of time before it happened with video games.

I never played an 7800, only the 2600, so this means little to me. With all the collections on consoles, this seems a little ridiculous. The 7800 didn't have the following that the 2600 did. And someone asked about Xenophobe, that's one of the games that Midway has now, and they are releasing it in their next Arcade Treasures.

I would rather have a punching bag of Sam Tramiel's face.

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Originally Posted by JefmcC

I would rather have a punching bag of Sam Tramiel's face.

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As would I.

I find it amazing how one man can kill not ONLY Atari, but Commodore as well.

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Originally Posted by Wildkat

As would I.

I find it amazing how one man can kill not ONLY Atari, but Commodore as well.

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Tramiel lost his majority share of the Commodore stock. He was removed from the company board. He then went on to buy into Atari. Commodore went down with the Amiga/ CD-32, Tramiel had nothing to do with that.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

I saw the movie as a kid but I hardly remember it now.

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I had actually played the arcade game, before seeing the movie. The whole concept of the movie, was that the kid (Who played Elliot in E.T.) found an Atari 5200 cartridge with the game Cloak and Dagger. There was a hidden code in the game that revealed something and people were out to get it. Really a lame movie, but I enjoyed the Atari references.