What went wrong?
>>720784937atari
>>720784948the pricethe lack of cool gamesthe controllerthe jewishness of the company
>>720784986>the priceWrong. $250 and a year later cut down to $150 and not long after $100. It was by far the cheapest console in the 6th gen.>lack of cool gamesWrong. Iron Soldier, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, AvP, Battlemorph, Rayman, Blue Lightning, Syndicate port that runs at an acceptable framerate, these were all good games and aesthetically cool.>the controllerWrong. The d-pad was kind of low quality but the numpad was a great addition >the jewishness of the companyElaborate. Jaguar was the best price to performance console in its generation. How is that jewish?
>>720784937I rented it several weekends from blockbuster. it was the best way I had available to me to play doom. I fucking loved AvP. cant wait to play it again on mister.but the ps1 was the clear console to wait for and I didnt have the money for multiple new consoles so I passed
>>720784937Hard to program for, plus Atari had burned too many bridges by that point, plus plus the PS1 came out immediately afterwards and did everything the Jaguar did better.
>>720784937everythingeven the hardware itself is buggy and developers had to tiptoe around broken shit
>>720784937I bought it so it was doomed
>>720784937man what is Atrai lived.
>>720784937>Make a console 64 but to one up everyone>Fucktardedly expensive>Used bizarre as setup to get TECHNICALLY a 64 bit system but performed only marginally better than 16 but and failed at anything better>Controller was legendarily bad>BATSHIT price tag>Effectively zero library>WHERE DID YOU LEARN TO FLY?
Was watching some documentary stuff with the OG Atari crew. Missile Command was made by a guy who had constant nightmares about nuclear Armageddon. The same guy had nightmares about demons crawling out of a pit from hell to drag him into the inferno, so he made Tempest.The funny shit was when the crew was asked about drug use >Atari had a reputation about using drugs but we didn't do that in my office building we were extremely professional.-t. Upper management>There are lines of code that shouldn't work but do because I was wrote them so high off my ass that I was coding from a higher plane of existence.>I know we had at least one guy whose sole job was to keep the programmers and designers loaded with a steady supply of weed. He seriously had zero other function. >We had a manager complain because the dank weed smoke was so constant from the designer's area. He demanded that Atari adopt a drug free workplace. The higher ups transferred him to a sattelite building instead.-t. Designers and Programmers
>>720787781>The higher ups transferred him to a sattelite building instead.based
>>720786109How fucking old are you?
>>720787781>The same guy had nightmares about demons crawling out of a pit from hell to drag him into the inferno, so he made Tempest.Huh, that's what if was about?
>>720787781>best and most productive days of the company were when employees were free to indulge in their vices>zero DEI hires>probably great benefits and free food all aroundGosh and I wonder why companies are failing with miserable employees
>>720788207Zoomers please die
meI fucked it up guys
>>720784937my grandmother didn't buy me it when I was in middle school and it was 65 dollars (and they were going to give me 3 free games with it)I don't blame her for not knowing its worth on its own and not trusting me to know better than her at literally 12 years old but I do wish it went differently
>>720784937>What went wrong?It launched with 3 games in November, the next game came in March, the next after that in April, the next 2 in August and the next one after that in October. After 5 years on the market it would only accrue 50 cartridge games and 13 more games for the CD add-on.
>>720784937>Atari Games were cranking out great arcade titles>Atari Corp's consoles all suffered from nogaemz
>720785420contrarianism never fails on /v/. you can't make this shit up
>>720788714They crashed and burned pretty hard though
The biggest issue I heard was having to deal with Jack Tramiel and his son. Also, in true Trammel fashion, corners were cut to keep the hardware cost down. The Motorola 68000 was a bit of a detriment to the hardware. Jack Tramiel on his own was quite good at managing computer companies, as he was the founder of Commodore an Atari was doing pretty good as a computer company. But the shift back to being a games and console hardware company was a major downfall.
