In the early 1990's, I had the opportunity to drive Mr. Minter from an E3 convention back to LAX one evening. During this trip, we had time to talk as we were alone in the "Atari Taxi". He really is quite smart and is very interesting but he has a rather unusual fascination with sheep. Yeah. That's about all I should say about that.
I did get a signed Tempest 2000 Soundtrack CD out of it as I broke several traffic laws to make sure he didn't miss his plane.
It's tough to argue with the Atari 800 having better graphics. Let's face it, having 128 colors on the screen at once in 300x200 resolution in 1980 was nothing short of amazing.
It's something people had to see to believe and a lot of them saw it and still didn't believe it.
Yes, I still have my Atari 800 (48K) with 810 floppy drive.
I'd sign up for this immediately which is really saying something since the prospect of paying a monthly fee for gaming has never appealed to me. I felt Tron 2.0 was a great game. It just sort of felt "right" while looking at all that neon and blocks. Visually faithful to the movie. In fact, I revisit 2.0 at least once a year.
So it took Nintendo all these years to get a portable unit out what's as functional as the Atari Lynx which was released in 1989? "Viewable in the dark" and it's even in color too! Sorry, I had to laugh.
It just proves the old axiom that the greatest technology can be destroyed by inept marketing or a much larger marketing campaign.
I'd just like a version that was stable under Mac OS 9.x. Or, at the very least, an e-mail address where I can send my macsbug stdlog's rather than having to wade through Bugzilla. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for an open source alternative to IE which is why I'm willing to put up with the 4-5 crashes per session. Sometimes I think 'talkback' is getting more CPU time than mozilla.
Imagine my shock at seeing the "magnificent obsession" on Slashdot! You may say I'm into this hobby a bit. For more information, be sure to check out Model Warship Combat, Inc.. Easily the most organized and largest group of model warship combat enthusiasts on the planet. The only organization with a national rule set so people can battle each other under the same rules no matter where they travel from. The MWC even has their own insurance and they're incorporated to boot!
For anyone who is curious, the hobby actually started in Abilene, TX during the summer of 1978 when two bored yokels decided to see if they could sink a plastic model of a ship by taking turns firing at it from shore with a BB gun. Needless to say, shortly after that they were successful in mounting a cannon on a radio controlled ship. The rest is history.
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2008 - Starcraft 2 to introduce new races and storyline.
2010 - Starcraft MMORPG to rake in the next several billion dollars.
Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that.
I did get a signed Tempest 2000 Soundtrack CD out of it as I broke several traffic laws to make sure he didn't miss his plane.
Enough said.
It's tough to argue with the Atari 800 having better graphics. Let's face it, having 128 colors on the screen at once in 300x200 resolution in 1980 was nothing short of amazing.
It's something people had to see to believe and a lot of them saw it and still didn't believe it.
Yes, I still have my Atari 800 (48K) with 810 floppy drive.
I'd sign up for this immediately which is really saying something since the prospect of paying a monthly fee for gaming has never appealed to me. I felt Tron 2.0 was a great game. It just sort of felt "right" while looking at all that neon and blocks. Visually faithful to the movie. In fact, I revisit 2.0 at least once a year.
So it took Nintendo all these years to get a portable unit out what's as functional as the Atari Lynx which was released in 1989? "Viewable in the dark" and it's even in color too! Sorry, I had to laugh.
It just proves the old axiom that the greatest technology can be destroyed by inept marketing or a much larger marketing campaign.
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Imagine my shock at seeing the "magnificent obsession" on Slashdot! You may say I'm into this hobby a bit. For more information, be sure to check out Model Warship Combat, Inc.. Easily the most organized and largest group of model warship combat enthusiasts on the planet. The only organization with a national rule set so people can battle each other under the same rules no matter where they travel from. The MWC even has their own insurance and they're incorporated to boot!
For anyone who is curious, the hobby actually started in Abilene, TX during the summer of 1978 when two bored yokels decided to see if they could sink a plastic model of a ship by taking turns firing at it from shore with a BB gun. Needless to say, shortly after that they were successful in mounting a cannon on a radio controlled ship. The rest is history.
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