Atari Box sinks to crowdfunding depths

[Badspot]

They say it will use "PC technology", reminds me of the "Phantom" game console.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment

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[Insert Name Here²]

remember when atari was renound for making the first ever video game, Pong? sad they sink this loving low.

The first ever video game was "Tennis for Two" back in 1969, Pong was the first home console and game though. Not the first ever game.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_the_Brain

[Insert Name Here²]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_the_Brain

Oh hell never heard of this one, and 1950 jfc

[Trogtor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PG2mdU_i8k

[Nonnel]

tennis for two is what i always heard was the first

[King Tøny]

It's kinda sickening how far we've come in the gaming industry.

First it was pre-order content. Then it was DLC that should be in the base game.

Now we are down to paid mods and stuffty scamming crowd funding projects

[SeventhSandwich]

OUYA 2.0 should be listed as maximum scam. The entire platform was based on the philosophy of making the cheapest, stufftiest piece of hardware and then putting games on it that are either too small or too mediocre to find their way onto legitimate channels. It was like someone looked at the OfficeMax videogame shovelware bin and said, "Yeah, this has potential."

I remember in the years leading up to its 'launch', I made a post on some Youtube video, explaining why OUYA is a scam and why giving a business tons of free, no-strings revenue before releasing a product is a recipe for stuffty deliverables. The Australian internet pseudo-celebrity Blunty berated me for being 'ignorant about the industry', got his 500k subscribers to brigade my post, and then blocked me for added injury.

But the joke's on him. He bought an OUYA and I didn't. The Atari Box looks no different besides the fact that it's preying on nostalgia.

[The Murderous Cop]

It's kinda sickening how far we've come in the gaming industry.

First it was pre-order content. Then it was DLC that should be in the base game.

Now we are down to paid mods and stuffty scamming crowd funding projects

crowdfunding scams have existed since kickstarter's creation, just search 'crowdfunding scam' or 'kickstarter scam' on youtube and you'll find hundreds of results

but yeah i see what you're talking about. as long as the pre-order content was cosmetic i couldn't really care, but if it's stuff like paid mods or DLC that is basically the base game (for example: dead or alive 5) then forget that

[Verification]

Atari: We have the name of a very old video game pioneer. Support us as we take a huge loving dump every 2 minutes and call it a game!

Consumers: Atari, are you gonna do what I think you're gonna do with that kinda pseudo-nerd fame?

Atari: Here comes the Atari Box, the next competitor to not-xbox and not-playstation! Maybe OUYA, but that thing has about the same cost of manufacturing as the average piece of bread! Who cares, we might release it!

Consumers: Atari stop.

Atari: The Atari Box needs to be crowdfunded! Sorry, you cant play PAC-MAN EXTREME any time soon! I also hope you wont miss this SICK HD REMAKE OF PONG!!!! Virtue signaling that we're not a different company is the way to go!

[beachbum111111]

I remember in the years leading up to its 'launch', I made a post on some Youtube video, explaining why OUYA is a scam and why giving a business tons of free, no-strings revenue before releasing a product is a recipe for stuffty deliverables. The Australian internet pseudo-celebrity Blunty berated me for being 'ignorant about the industry', got his 500k subscribers to brigade my post, and then blocked me for added injury.

Do you know understand why we need to genocide aussies?

[McJob]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_the_Brain

Thank you for not spouting the same bullstuff about "Pong" being first.

Bertie the Brain (Interactive consumer showcase), Tennis for Two (Military hardware), Spacewar (University project). Pong's notable record was being one of the first video games on a home console (the Magnavox Odyssey, Game I).

[Badspot]

OUYA 2.0 should be listed as maximum scam. 

Yeah but is there any hardware kickstarter that isn't a scam by that standard?  The OUYA actually existed and would run android games, there are tons of hardware kickstarters that are physically impossible and will never ship - just straight up fraud. 

[torin²]

JIVE TURKEY

[Conan]

i like the "not a scam - first of its kind" choice, shows how crowdfunding doesnt work for real products