They have a crazy history of buying and selling companies and IPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA#History

When they have good times they buy what they can, then when they hit hard times it all ends up offered in a fire sale.

To add to the confusion Atari announced earlier this year that they would restore the Infogrames brand as a publishing label.

Now we get stuff like this :

Apparently, you can install Windows inside DOSBox, but is that really stable and usable for layman? Are there any other approaches?

I think thats where PCem or 86box becomes more helpful.

I guess that would do it.

At home I’ve got a pihole

How is the pihole from a maintenance perspective?

I have my family using adguard DNS on our mobile devices and it does a great job of killing ads in the mobile games my son plays (and browsers of course).

I unfortunately can’t run adblockers at my job.

Ouch! We have deployed ad blockers on all supported bowsers as a matter of policy to meet our security goals.

I haven’t seen any more than the single tile on my xbox home screen.

I wonder if its regional or just that my ad blockers are working.

Are you looking to run on actual hardware?

If not then you might want to also consider fantasy consoles.

So its the median of the three quarters so far this year?

The Mac Mini product line has been running since 2005.

Is the Retro City Rampage / Shakedown: Hawaii guy working on anything?

Nice!

I much prefer a flat fee monetization model.

The next question is will it actually be a paid premium download, eligible for family sharing, or will they structure it is a free download with a “full game unlock” IAP?

I share my console with my son and at the moment it makes sense for the two of us.

If we split onto seperate consoles as he gets older I don’t see myself paying for two subscriptions.

*ps2

Huh? TIL Monopoly Go exists.

For offline software I wouldn’t consider it a problem, but for something that connects to the internet I would want it to have the latest versions of its dependencies.

It looks like the dev has been updating their funding details recently, hopefully they have an update planned.

https://github.com/TachibanaGeneralLaboratories/download-navi/commits/master/

I think most people playing video games are familiar with the phenomenon.

As a recent example Dragon Ball Sparking Zero has versions for: au$115, au$160, au$180, or au$390.

Odyssey was obscene. I played it and rolled credits but it took 10 times longer than it should have. It was a bloated mess.

When I give a digital game as present I go to the shop to print out the cover art on photo paper and then put it in a card. It gives them something they can immediately look at, handle, and discuss.

Here are a few I’ve used recently, they are more literal than the cartridge era but they are still artworks in their own right:

10s of MB software with the rest of the disc as CD audio was standard for the time.

Even with those constraints PS had noticeable mid-battle lag as it loaded in animationss.

¥ 1 billion equals:

• us$ 6.6 million
• € 6.1 million
• au$ 10 million
• £ 5.1 million