ultrazilla
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Please read this first. This explains why the system "looks" like an Atari Jaguar. That's because the molds used to make the Jaguar were bought to make this system. Simple as that.
Please no more derailing the thread regarding Atari Jaguar sucking, etc.
Did a search for "new cartridge based retro console" and got nothing. Blow the dust out of me if old.....
Basically, Mike Kennedy-a major force behind the excellent Retro Video Game Magazine and his team of industry vets will be launching a kickstarter "sometime this summer" on a brand new cartridge based video game system.
Here's a quote:
The system case will be Atari Jaguars!
Bullet points:
-He goes on to say they're aiming for 16 bit era graphics.
-They are talking to Yacht Club regarding Shovel Knight.
-Retro City Rampage is being aimed for launch.
-Highly likely working with Interworks on wired(yes!) controllers
One last awesome quote:
My thoughts? I'm 43 years old and have wondered why someone hasn't attempted this yet. I'll wait for the kickstarter to see what choices we have and what not but I'll probably throw quite a bit of money at this. With the crappy direction the current industry is going in with DLC, game breaking bugs, major patch updates that chew bandwith and memory this would be a welcome system in my home.
Check out the rest of the article below:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/08/t...new-cartridge-based-retro-video-game-console/
Please no more derailing the thread regarding Atari Jaguar sucking, etc.
GamesBeat: Youre using the shells of Atari Jaguar systems and cartridges. I really enjoyed the story about how you came across all of those.
Kennedy: Yeah. Love it or hate it, it saved us a ton of money. Thats the biggest thing. Just the tooling alone the injection mold shop that currently has them I brought them from San Francisco down to Orange County they told me that would have been at least $300,000 in modern-day tooling costs. That doesnt even count the design work that has to be done. If youre paying a design team to come up with a whole new look. Thats probably half a million dollars in the end. Again, with the Jag tooling its really the reason this is possible, at least for me to be able to do it. If it wasnt for that, theres no way this could be done. Like it or dont like it or whatever, if you like this idea this new life for the Jaguar console shell is really whats making it all possible.
Did a search for "new cartridge based retro console" and got nothing. Blow the dust out of me if old.....
Basically, Mike Kennedy-a major force behind the excellent Retro Video Game Magazine and his team of industry vets will be launching a kickstarter "sometime this summer" on a brand new cartridge based video game system.
Here's a quote:
GamesBeat: The magazine is definitely cool, but its kind of a big leap from a publication to making a console.
Kennedy: Well, yeah. When we started this magazine everyone thought we were a little nuts. Actually, before the magazine was even an idea that we had had, Steve Woita and I were kicking around the new console. This goes back probably two and a half years. The timing just wasnt right, I didnt think, at that point, for the console I wanted to bring out, which was going to be a cartridge-based console to play new games on cartridges. Its not like the Retron 5 where you can plug in your old NES carts. There are lots of ways to play your old carts on a variety of other clone systems. What I wanted to do a couple years ago was make a brand-new console that just ran off carts again. Its all solid state technology, right? A cartridge-based system, just like the Atari. You can still find Ataris at the swap meet, cartridges, 30 years later, plug them in and it all works. To me thats the coolest technology out there, with that longevity. A lot of us grew up with it. The kids these days are going to miss out on that.
The system case will be Atari Jaguars!
GamesBeat: Youre using the shells of Atari Jaguar systems and cartridges. I really enjoyed the story about how you came across all of those.
Kennedy: Yeah. Love it or hate it, it saved us a ton of money. Thats the biggest thing. Just the tooling alone the injection mold shop that currently has them I brought them from San Francisco down to Orange County they told me that would have been at least $300,000 in modern-day tooling costs. That doesnt even count the design work that has to be done. If youre paying a design team to come up with a whole new look. Thats probably half a million dollars in the end. Again, with the Jag tooling its really the reason this is possible, at least for me to be able to do it. If it wasnt for that, theres no way this could be done. Like it or dont like it or whatever, if you like this idea this new life for the Jaguar console shell is really whats making it all possible.
Bullet points:
-He goes on to say they're aiming for 16 bit era graphics.
-They are talking to Yacht Club regarding Shovel Knight.
-Retro City Rampage is being aimed for launch.
-Highly likely working with Interworks on wired(yes!) controllers
One last awesome quote:
Kennedy: Were trying to talk to some big-name publishers about bringing back old fan favorites on this thing, or sequels. Thats actually why Im up here in San Francisco, meeting with a third party developer thats done a lot of third-party development work for Sony and Capcom and Konami and Sega. Well be partnering with this group to lead our charge into those types of companies to work out licensing deals for some of these games that they havent monetized in 10-15-20 years. As you know, theres a lot of games out there that people would love to see brought back. A lot of these games wouldnt come back and play real well on mobile. You play retro remakes on mobile, right? The touch screen is horrible. Theres just no way around it. For retro-style games, you need precision control. You dont want any controller lag. You need that zen-like experience that a wired controller can give you. Theres a lot of these games that we think, with the right treatment and the connections involved its possible we might be able to go out and bring back some of your favorite NES-style or Super NES or Sega Genesis games as sequels. Were putting down our wish list of what titles we would like to see brought back.
My thoughts? I'm 43 years old and have wondered why someone hasn't attempted this yet. I'll wait for the kickstarter to see what choices we have and what not but I'll probably throw quite a bit of money at this. With the crappy direction the current industry is going in with DLC, game breaking bugs, major patch updates that chew bandwith and memory this would be a welcome system in my home.
Check out the rest of the article below:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/08/t...new-cartridge-based-retro-video-game-console/