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1. cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 11:42:37 JST cool_boy_mew
   Atari® — one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today the acquisition of more than 100 PC and console titles from the 1980s and 1990s. The collection includes notable games from the Bubsy, Hardball, Demolition Racer series, as well as the 1942: Pacific Air War, F-117A, and F-14 air combat series
   >Bubsy
   >Notable
   
   Bruh, I probably wouldn't even pay for the Bubsy license if I was offered it at very cheap
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 11:51:47 JST xianc78

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     @coolboymew People like AVGN have indirectly revived interests in failed franchises like Bubsy.

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   • ☻ (mrsaturday@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 12:00:30 JST ☻

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     @coolboymew How is Atari still around? They've been making one dumb decision after the next for about 30 years now.
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   • Rocket (rocket@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 12:00:31 JST Rocket

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     @mrsaturday @coolboymew It's not the same company. The current "Atari" bought the Atari name just a few years ago. They have an overpriced console out.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 12:00:59 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Rocket @mrsaturday atari has changed like 3-5 times along the gens
   • [vtuber] All-bones Jones :verified: (all_bonesjones@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 12:08:52 JST [vtuber] All-bones Jones :verified:

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     @coolboymew bubsy is notably shit
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 12:10:57 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @All_bonesJones All of the Bubsy game are pretty much not very good to utter shit, and that includes that new game that is apparently extremely short
     
     There is pretty much nothing notable about the franchise and if they'd want to bring back even the earliest game, they would have to more or less actually include hit points or something because it's legitimately unplayable
     
     I can't believe they looked at Sonic for this and didn't go and copy the ring system or something
   • [vtuber] All-bones Jones :verified: (all_bonesjones@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 12:16:41 JST [vtuber] All-bones Jones :verified:

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     @coolboymew i'm keenly aware how bad bubsy is but bubsy 3d is a very notable game for being one of the best examples how NOT to do 3d. it was developed alongside mario 64 and got everything wrong that mario got right. it's a perfect example of a game design evolutionary branch that went nowhere and that's notable
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 12:17:05 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @All_bonesJones yeah, notable in how absolutely unplayable it is. They literally cannot re-release it lmao
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   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 12:19:38 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     @coolboymew @All_bonesJones It's a platformer where even the most basic movement is a major pain in the ass.
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   • Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2: (camedei456@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:07:40 JST Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2:

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     Sounds like Atari bought Billionsoft to me.
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   • [vtuber] All-bones Jones :verified: (all_bonesjones@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:08:04 JST [vtuber] All-bones Jones :verified:

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     @coolboymew exactly, hyping up the remake of bubsy 3d, a game nobody likes or wants a remake of, would actually be a good marketing move because it'll get people laughing about it. notoriety translates to sales even if you're notably bad
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:08:34 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @All_bonesJones that's more or less what they did for the new Bubsy and it was aggressively mediocre. Don't think it's gonna work again
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   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:14:06 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     @coolboymew @All_bonesJones Bubsy is a dead meme and should stay that way.
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   • Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2: (camedei456@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:47:37 JST Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2:

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     >Atari® — one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers
     >Atari
     I think Infogrames' strategy now is to just milk the past for all it's worth.
     
     This is the same Infogrames that commissioned this cheesy theme song.
     https://youtu.be/522bVV-82qQ
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   • [vtuber] All-bones Jones :verified: (all_bonesjones@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:47:45 JST [vtuber] All-bones Jones :verified:

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     @coolboymew then they sure fucked it up because i didn't even know there was a new bubsy
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:48:55 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @All_bonesJones there's TWO new bubsy apparently lmao
   • Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2: (camedei456@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:49:20 JST Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2:

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     • Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2:
     @coolboymew
     And if you think this isn't appropriate, you might not be familiar with the modern Atari and where they came from.
     Before taking the Atari name and milking it's past (or what of it they had, I'm guessing it's also a general attempt to milk on boomer nostalgia), Infogrames managed to mismanage a whole bunch studios (Reflections and Humongous being chief among them), killing off GT Interactive and Gremlin Interactive along with cluelessly expanding and misusing assets they bought/inherited.
     A guy with the surname Bonnell was chief of Infogrames when this all went down, and was likely more focused on his Olympics Lyonnais cash and Canal+ TV dealings.
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   • Store-Brand Pikachu (pcachu@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:49:41 JST Store-Brand Pikachu

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     @coolboymew @All_bonesJones "aggressively mediocre" is the best possible description of that attempted Bubsy revival. the only options it had for being memorable were "excellent beyond all expectation" and "sorta-playable trainwreck". nobody actually wants to make the latter and there was no way the former was in the cards, so honestly it was doomed before it even reached the design phase.
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   • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat: (1iceloops123@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:50:01 JST iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:

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     @coolboymew @All_bonesJones if it was me I'd would of released the old games on console and PC than try hard to make a decent game
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:50:01 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @1iceloops123 @All_bonesJones they already did all that
   • Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2: (camedei456@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 13:50:19 JST Jeon Yoo-Sook :adm1::adm2:

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     @coolboymew
     As for the song "Infogrames Rocks My World", the song was purported to cost $50,000 to commission, everyone who worked on the song was fired and people that worked in Infogrames were blasting their MP3 of the song out in the offices every other moment as every employee had it e-mailed to them.
     The leaker was a disgruntled programmer at Reflections who had this sitting on his hard disk for a while.
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