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I thought that was about ET
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Submitted 7 months ago by atomicpoet@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You speak as though Atari is known for making sound business decisions…
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Internet points aren’t real but nice try at juicing yours upward
jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was big into gaming and computers back then and this is the first time I’ve heard of this.
On paper, it sounds great… A 5200 with more memory and no shitty joysticks?
Compatible with the Atari 400/800 software?
Shit, I would have bought one just for Star Raiders. Of course this was also 2 years after the Amiga and Atari ST battles as well. Why would anyone want an 8 bit experience in that era?
Linktank@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Jesus, how old are you?
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ok
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 7 months ago
69 yo. And the sleep issue is more prostate related than Atari business model.
troed@fedia.io 7 months ago
IIRC when Tramiel bought Atari their vision was all about the 16/32 bit computers but did quite a few things to bring in cash based on the existing Atari designs - and chips. That's the Atari 65 and 130XE too just being rehashes of older 8 bit Bushnell computers.
I'm all Tramiel-Atari era myself so never even reflected on the 8 bit re-releases though so I might be misremembering something.
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 7 months ago
Sixteen kilobytes on the 5200. Sixty-four on the XEGS
Actually, RAM was the most limiting factor back then. Everyone wanted more, so Atari delivered
Eheran@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wrong community?
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Users: Doesn’t matter, had Xegs.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I love the shitpost energy you brought to this community.
nawa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
wtf is this post
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
At least half of it sounds chatgpt.
“Its not;it is” pattern being repeated all over is one of its signatures.
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
I was gonna say it reads it reads like one of those obnoxious LinkedIn posts
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 7 months ago
Post is post. It is made of post. Wtf is this question?
rikudou@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Question is question. It’s made of question. Wtf is this comment?
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
That RAM upgrade must have been significant back then for game developers to store game state.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Right? Quadrupling the RAM isn’t a minor upgrade. I’m not sure what OP is ranting about.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They seem used to current gigabyte memory values without knowing historically RAM was Kb and, in the 70s, it wasn’t cheap.
Transform2942@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Did ChatGPT write this post?