Crowdfunded Ataribox Reportedly Postponed Until further notice
The crew behind the Ataribox on IndieGoGo (Kickstarter) last Thursday should have started with their crowdfunding campaign, as it seems, that has been postponed until further notice as noted on the kickstarter page. Exactly why that is, the company did not disclose.
The unit is making a lot of oldsters and aficionados hearts beats faster when the initial announcement was made back in the summer. Preorder should have started today with a delivery 'late spring 2018', however, the countdown on the Indiegogo page has stopped and yeah .. nothing. It is mentioned that more information will be posted later, reports tweakers. Unknown is the exact price for the unit, as well as the actual games that would be included. Herein might be the problem, copyright-wise. The Ataribox is estimated to cost somewhere between 249 and 299 dollars.
The Ataribox can be seen a bit as a steam box, you can play a number of classic Atari games. The Ataribox would make use of a custom AMD processor with Radeon graphics. The console should be running a customized version of Linux. The Ataribox would be capable of music and video streaming as well as running apps and web browsing. The device is styled after the Atari 2600 from 1977.
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The re-release of the old-time consoles is neat in theory, but when I try to re-play the games I once played 35 years ago (I guess I'm dating myself there) today, I think to myself "We've come a long way!" and then I quickly discard it and move on to a modern title.
The nostalgia of playing the old title only remains when it's only a memory and not something I experience again. You know?
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Did they have the rights to even do this and use the Atari name to boot?
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Reminds me of people capitalizing and still making money on the Amiga. Way, way back in the wayback machine I used nothing but Amigas for seven years--right up until C= went belly up. In its day, the Amiga was king--unchallenged, unsurpassed--the "god" of computerdom at the time. I owned during that period at least one of every Amiga model manufactured except for the A1000--which I passed on in 1987--to pick up an A500 instead. Stuff you could do with Amigas in those days was incredibly advanced--and often directly contradicted what Bill Gates at the time would proclaim was "possible"...

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The "Ataribox" is apparently being developed by Atari, so I'd assume they have the rights to use their own branding....
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It's not a surprise at least for me, they spent a good amount of money on marketing but...:
- Few to no details on hardware specs
- Games?What games?
- Past fails of the brand
Get the money and run?
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