Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery Atari may finally hit one of its deadlines – its fourth – over its retro VCS games console, three years after the project was launched. Having blown past deadlines on December 2017, July 2019, and March 2020, Atari this week posted a series of pictures of boxes on its Indiegogo fundraising page, Twitter profile, and Medium …
Some companies just need to be put out of their misery and get it over with. Atari is one of those companies. They had a good run in the 1980s with consoles, and in the 1990s with games and such. But now they are just pathetic. Who's writing/porting games for it anyways? What games does it have?
Just saying.
I miss my Atari. Cohen and Ceelow.
Ah, they'll never, never reach the moon
At least the one that we are after
It's out there on the broken sea
And it carries no survivors.
Yeah I'm sorry, I can't afford a Ferrari,
But that don't mean I can't get you there.
I guess he's an Xbox and I'm more Atari,
About the way you play your game ain't fair.
Atari was put out of its misery a long time ago. The problem is that once a company is dead, there's nothing to stop someone else running a company with the same name. In this case, the name had basically no value so whoever happened to own the corpse once it stopped twitching was happy to sell it off for peanuts. The current Atari has nothing to do with the old one, it's just some random who scribbled the word "Atari" on their name badge in green felt tip.
Photo as proof. Like a well-known courier offering a picture of a parcel on a doorstep as proof that they'd delivered something to me. Only snag - sufficient detail to show it wasn't my doorstep but insufficient to show whose doorstep it was. Odd coincidence - in the middle of reading these comments I had to go and receive an equally heavy parcel from the same vendor, despatched yesterday but delivered by a different courier.
Pointless, underpowered device.
It could have been so much more, but the company has misfired at every step. There was a lack of vision and the delays never made sense. The cost is astronomical for what you get - a very low-end embedded system.
They should have made a nice Atari-styled case for an off-the-shelf small form factor motherboard, and provided a matching styled controller.
They'd probably get more positive vibes selling the case and controller as a Raspberry Pi 4 enclosure, and including RetroPi in the box.
Perhaps you were under the impression that this was a scrappy and creative bunch getting ready to open on Broadway with a Hamilton-beater.
Cast your thoughts more in the direction of "Springtime for [redacted lest moderators ban me]".
As for empty boxes, I recall in the 1970s a semiconductor company shipping empty (ceramic) packages in places of Chips, on a contract with harsh penalties for delayed delivery but none for QA rejects.
At least they weren't shipping (briefly) working chips with corrosive contaminants that ate the bond wires after a month or so powered on. If you transpose that tale to the current subject, I hope the eager recipients have a venomous snake handler handy for the unboxing.
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