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>collectors paid about $11,000 each for the last three known cabinets of an arcade game in existence
>for decades, they refused to let the ROM be copied for emulation
>if those cabinets gave out or were destroyed by accidents like fires, the game would LITERALLY be erased from existence forever, the source code is long gone
>they make people pay for tickets to attend their private arcades just to even TRY the game
>one of them hires a repairman for an unrelated cabinet
>the repairmen apparently pulled off a heist where he copied the rare game ROM for emulation, which would require specialized equipment not needed for repairs going unnoticed at the rare game for hours
>the ROM later appears on the internet
>the collectors panic, grow paranoid that one of the other collectors broke the pact they all had to not let this happen and fabricated the heist as an alibi
Have you ever wondered what an $11,000 26.6 KB game is like? Well, now's your chance.
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Based, fuck hoarder niggers
Not very based, fuck pirate niggers
Imagine being so shitty and entitled that you abuse your vocation to commit grand theft and steal a copy of a rare game from the people who rightfully own it and have every right not to share it, all so you and your fellow misanthrope piratefags can illegally download and emulate it under the pretense of 'preservation'.
Making a copy of something isn't stealing though.
>for hours
What? They're like less than half a gig. Why the fuck would it take that long to dump a ROM somewhere
Did you even read? There was no heist, one nigga just wanted to watch things burn
Get FUCKED
Rom dumping is pretty delicate specially with old boards, on top of that data need be checked to ensure that nothing is corrupted.
For cracking the chip maybe? I'm not a /g/tard though so
They still own the game. Nobody took that from them.
Honestly that game would have been a real killer seller if it came out back in 1982. That zoom-in would have blown everybody's minds.
I'm not a scientist so I didn't know. Thanks for the info
Imagine being so shitty and entitled that you buy something insanely rare so you can keep it to yourself and charge people outrageous amounts of money to see it.
Sometimes you need dump multiple times, now take account how many chips some boards can have and it can take a fair amount of time.
On bright side, modern arcades are just glorified PCs, and you can run exactly same crap as them if they get dumped.If because companies don't handle arcades like before.
Sorry nerd but you got Robin Hooded, eat shit
Check your reading comprehension user. OP says the other guys think the heist was fabricated, not necessarily that it was.
Modern arcade games are actually way more secure, many need security dongles to even function, have always online DRM that makes Denuvo look like child's play, and there are a shitton of cab-specifc unique watermarks/identifiers that need to be stripped/zeroed out before you can even think of releasing it.
Or you can just grab it off an unsecured GoogleDrive because some Sega intern fucked up and uploaded not just Daytona's update patch.zip but also the full game as well
I'd steal from a hoarder too if I had the opportunity fuck those faggots.
How much were these fuckers charging people to play this goddamn thing anyway?
That makes it even better, the autistic hoarders can't even trust their own circle jerk, my schadenfreude is rising like my dick right now
Eh game looks kinda sh-
>THAT ZOOM
That reminded me of the brilliant idea of capcom having suicide boards on CPS2.
based
Fuck "collectors"
Fuck "horders"
Fuck selfish niggers who don't want to share.
This is why communism happens, you don't like to share something that everyone else wants all because you are making money off of it and like being a stingy little shit.
If it were up to me I would make all video games be uploaded and archived properly.
Game looks pretty fucking dope too. The smooth ZOOM switch is pretty advanced for a game pushing forty years old.
Dont dig too deep user.
We live in a world of bioengineered seeds that die after a single crop
I think it was like $50 for an entire day of freeplay in the whole collection.
wut
Nothing was stolen. Jesus fucking Christ, now I know why black people have double-digit IQs. They stole it all from you.
Can you justify an act of dickery for the greater good? That's the real question here. It'd be like stealing from a bank to pay for your mother's surgery so she can live, but on a smaller scale.It's even more ambiguous since nothing was "stolen", merely copied.
Nice reddit spacing
Have a (you) and be off back from where you came
Also anyone defending hording rare media needs to go fall in a hole and die, you may as well be trying to defend rich assholes who takeover pharmaceutical companies to jack up the prices of medicine by 1000%
>It'd be like stealing from a bank to pay for your mother's surgery so she can live, but on a smaller scale.It's even more ambiguous since nothing was "stolen", merely copied.
How are those two comparable at all?
anybody rich enough to pay prohibitive amounts of money for an arcade cabinet is hardly going to be affected by the ROM being uploaded, it's not like they made their entire living from charging people to see that shit. considering this fact I can't really even think of this as an act of dickery
6/10 bait, you got some people
post more abigail
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>The B boards hold battery-backed memory containing decryption keys needed for the games to run. As time passes, these batteries lose their charge and the games stop functioning, because the CPU cannot execute any code without the decryption keys. This is known to hobbyists as the "suicide battery". It is possible to bypass the original battery and swap it out with a new one[2] in-circuit, but this must be done before the original falls below 2V or the keys will be lost.
>Consequently, the board would just die anyway, meaning even if used legally it would not play after a finite amount of time (Unless a fee was paid to Capcom to replace it).
>The B boards hold battery-backed memory containing decryption keys needed for the games to run. As time passes, these batteries lose their charge and the games stop functioning, because the CPU cannot execute any code without the decryption keys. This is known to hobbyists as the "suicide battery". It is possible to bypass the original battery and swap it out with a new one in-circuit, but this must be done before the original falls below 2V or the keys will be lost.
tldr Boards have expiration period and pretty much killed the chance of being dumped properly till some autismo finally cracked the thing in 2007.
This is why you all work at mcdonalds.
HAH
Get fucked fag. Hows it feel to have pissed 11K down the drain? Now everyone can play this shit AND I'm willing to bet new cabinets will be made for collectors.
god damn
I don't work because I'm too sick to do so and would rather live in borderline quarantine than to risk contagion spreading.
wow that's kind of badass. Imagine doing that with modern consoles,
You're doing something generally seen as a dick move. I'm trying to find a better analogy.
You make a fair point too, but I don't like this idea that "it's okay to screw over someone just because they have more money". If it was some ultra-rich CEO who regularly abused tax loopholes and didn't pay his workers, I'd feel no shame or sadness about the fact. I guess this guy trying to purposely create scarcity might've had it coming.
>rightfully own it
They don't own it. They have a non-exclusive license to operate it for their own entertainment. Physical copies do not change that, it just makes revoking the license not logistically feasible.
MY MFW WHEN ZOOM
Fucking planned obsolescence. Is there any better example of corporate bullshit being a net negative to society
the rich withholding money from the general economy by being rich
That's capitalism for you.
oh this is some good shit
I pirate because I want to.
#fuckyou
That was pretty genius from an anti-piracy/reseller angle
as part of the service contract with Capcom or their local distributor you would send the whole console+game back if it had issues and get a new one (for a fee) Only the original contractee could get this service, so people who bought the system secondhand from an auction or something would be shit out of luck and would soon find that their system sudoku'd along with whatever game was loaded onto it
It ensured that only the original owners would have working cabinets and only for as long as they still paid their fees to get service for it
The Capcom Play System 2 was an arcade system, the game PCBs were encrypted and could only be decrypted by the console PCB, which had a chip with the decryption keys on them backed by a battery, when the battery died the decryption chip was wiped rendering the game permanently inoperable unless sent in for repairs
Don't forget that if due to an act of nature if the seeds blow into an adjacent farm of someone who isn't contracted with Monsanto they can sue you for breaking contract and sharing your seeds
Yes fucks the passionate fan and not the company for not re releasing digitally their piece of crap game.
Stupid nigger.
It's not any more dickish than keeping something rare to yourself and allow it to be lost to history because you want to be special or make money. If this didn't happen, those game would be lost in 20 years time due to faulty transistors or a random accident.
If something can only be valuable because only you own it, then it's not really valuable at all.
I'm coming for you, Klonoa Beta nigger.
Modern consoles actually have good security. Breaches happen because some fuckup.
>I'm coming for you, Klonoa Beta nigger.
>he doesn't know
that guy died in a housefire my man.
fpbp
Take your leftypol shit and fuck off.
Yes, 100 million people need to die because I couldn't play some meaningless entertainment. Not that video games should exist in a socialist society
now the game is preserved and the hoarders can still keep their rare machine. balance is restored. the wheel of fate turns once more.
Cry some more. What kind of Three Musketards pays $11,000 for three prototype arcade cabinets to keep them out of the hands of the public, and then force people to pay them money to see it?
If they weren't sharing it they weren't passionate fags. Just clout chasing bitches. Even museums keeps copies of paintings for exposure, why not ROMs?
>preserved
for what reason? It gets 15 min of fame, then it'll get forgotten again and then slowly disappear from existence. What is this obsession with preservation.
This reminds me of that mock taser game from Never Say Never Again. Could be fun for a bit.
Except the cabinets have lost most of their value because the game is playable for free elsewhere, they only held value because of the exclusivity, that is gone now
>Xbox consoles actually have good security. Breaches happen because japanese programming
fixed
*dabs on your grave*
Here we have the neocon mindset in its full glory - hoard rare cultural stuff that you didn't create, intentionally create scarcity so you can charge people money to see it, risk it being wiped out if something goes wrong.
Someone copies it and gives it away for free NUUUUU UR SHITTY AND ENTITLED THATS STEALING HOW DARE U WAAAAAA
The only people who deserve to make money off the hard work of game developers are the game developers themselves.
Their value has not fizzled out, only diminished. There is without a doubt still a market for the machines themselves for collectors.
>I'm entitled to the crap someone else paid for
Go get mad at the company for not giving a shit about their game. You could have easily bought one of those cabinets if you actually cared about the game or weren't too busy flipping burgers.
based and self-sacrificepilled
I thought piracy wasn't stealing, user? :)
Encryption got cracked in 2001. It got fully reverse engineered in 2007, so mame run things exactly as they should be.
2016 is where people got ways to revive the boards.
Bullshit, Xbox hueg and 360 were piss easy to open wide, Nintendo stuff is just well documented so people know what to do for most part.
Xbone just survives because nobody cares about it.
>all for one and one for all
>united we stand
>divided we fall
A real human bean
How could they digitally re release a game in which the source code was lost? Those three cabinets were the ONLY way to play the game in the world. And now that game will be preserved forever and able to be cherished by more than just 3 neckbeards with more money than sense.
Holy shit that zoom is indeed rad
Based repairman
ITT. a bunch of retards pretend they care about video game history LMAO
God I love watching hoarder niggers seeth and squirm
Companies shouldn't be screwing over the people who give them money in the first place. Talk shit, get hit.
why would the cabinet be devalued? the people who are into collecting shit want the original item in its original condition. just because you can buy a kit car version of an old classic car that drives better and goes faster doesn't mean the original car loses any meaningful value. people just want drive a car that looks like it, not actually drive the original. people just want to play the video game, they don't care about playing it on the original cabinet. purists who are into that aren't gonna play a rom anyways, they want to play it on the original machine in which case they will still gladly pay for the privilege to do so.
>"romhoarding isn't wrong the guy payed the money for the cabinets"
>"those guys could've shared the roms on the internet, they don't have to pay people to play it"
>"LOL GET A LOAD OF THESE ASSHOLES"
Are you even fucking hearing yourself?
nobody here gives a shit about the preservation, we're having more fun shitting on the retards that spend ungodly amounts of money to hoard rare games only to get btfo.
>payed
God, I hate you stupid faggots.
Thank you Tom Cruise for preserving vidya
>Roaming BBS back on early 00s.
>Sometimes someone would dump a proto.
>Nobody gave a shit and wanted the final version.
I wonder how much stuff got lost due this.
>for decades, they refused to let the ROM be copied for emulation
Very based. Fuck sharecucks.
>the repairmen apparently pulled off a heist where he copied the rare game ROM for emulation
Also based.
Fuck off juanito I don't give a shit about your brown ass opinion.
Rich people invest their money, which spurs further growth. They don't hoard it in big Scrooge McDuck vaults.
This would be an example of a poor investment.
I know
Pretty fucking based heh ?
>Rich people invest their money, which spurs further growth. They don't hoard it in big Scrooge McDuck vaults
ronald reagan is dead, you can come up off his cock now user, it's been far too long
>They don't hoard it in big Scrooge McDuck vaults
>this entire thread
Why the fuck do I come here.
tcrf.net
>GOOD LUCK, YOU PIRATES
If only he knew.
what's your problem
Well now someone is going to start making cabinets again. If there's a market for it then someone will do it.
>let's shit on some wealthy collectors to make us feel better about our shitty wagecuck jobs
Poorshits are always amusing.
Do you sincerely believe that rich people horde their money just to watch it become less valuable over time due to inflation instead of spending or investing it? Why would they do that? They're not stupid, like you.
Might makes right. If 3 guys conspire to control access to a resource for profit, then they are righteous. If a repairman pulls of a heist to copy and share this resource with the world, then he is righteous. If you drain the coffers living off the government's teat while lying about disabilities, you are righteous. If you throttle hookers in your car and dump them in an alleyway, you are righteous. The only thing that matters is power. If you can kill a dozen cops or a politician and get away with it, you are righteous. The only thing that matters is power. If an user somehow tracked me down and caved my head in and raped my dog, he is righteous. The only thing that matters is power.
All that mad over a game you're never going to even play.
Calm down dickhead. I was criticizing corporations actively fucking with their customers for an easy buck, not calling for communism
I doubt the existence of fake cabinets will really kill that value of the authentic ones that much. People willing to throw that kind of money around just care about the fact that the authentic thing is rare. They aren't people that are really desperate to play a mediocre game.
Why do you feel the need to defend retards who spent exorbitant sums on something that shouldn't have been kept private in the first place while resorting to ad-hominem against someone who would rather see game preservation continue to flourish rather than stagnate due to people like the Three Musketeeretards who bought out the Akka Arrh cabinets after the source code was destroyed and proceeded to make people pay to see it?
>Game never got released.
Why anyone would do that? I can understand make a ghetto SF2, MK or whatever popular game. On top of that game uses a trackball.
Go back to bed, Jeffrey
yeah dude rich people investing their money into wal-mart has absolutely improved quality of life for the average joes that actually make the place function. this also applies to every single big chain store. are you fucking retarded?
is that pic achievable natty?
good sir you are a scholar and a gentleman
Do you really think political shitters understand such a distinction?
Awesome. Fuckem for trying to hold a resource hostage for profit at the expense of risking it lost to time.
Public Domain really needs a revisit. In the past it was meant to protect a living creator and their immediate family. But now the original creator often gets nothing and the speed of technology is no the speed of a novel over a century ago in terms of sale time and disappearance in a market.
Absolutely based. Love me some classic Atari.
>something that shouldn't have been kept private
You didn't pay for it you don't get to decide shit. That's how this country works you little shit. Don't like it? You're free to go to venezuela or north korea.
Because its rare and vintage. You think new cabinets of this never before seen atari game won't attract retrofags?
Yes, Wal-Mart provides thousands of low-skill jobs to people who would otherwise have worse or no jobs. Also, it might shock the hell out of you to learn that people sometimes invest in things other than big box stores, such as literally every other kind of business.
Looks like shit.
Gameplay wise and g re graphics wise.
Everyone should be rounded up and executed in the streets for wasting my time reading and watching this.
The developers who made the game, the publishers who financed it, the technicians who built the cabinets, the collectors who bought them, the person who leaked the rom, and anyone else involved.
Line them all up and shoot them all behind their heads.
Unless you got the real deal.
No. And normalfags want mainstream stuff.
The wagecucks that make the place function can barely manage a chicken coop. The place would go broke faster than your mom ass if you put them on charge of real decisions.
>imagine paying $11k USD to get a single Likeo on a shitty social media community and fade into obscurity years later
They don't own the copyright so they don't get to decide either. The only people being wronged here are Atari
Too bad they didn't actually steal the boards, just made a copy.
They don't own the legal right to distribute it or withhold access. Atari does. They are infringing upon Atari's rights.
cry more and louder
Wow that game actually looks cool as fuck, what kind of shitbag would actively try to prevent a ROM upload of this
Guess what nigger? Their shit got uploaded, hoarder autist scum will always lose for preservation's sake. A videogame isn't a vase or a painting, it's just data.
Jews.
But what about the trendy hipster market? The retro otakus? The fags that are obsessed with everything atari. They exist, and they want this game. And they want it in physical form.
$11,000 isn't even that much. It's a new medium sized sedan. Every middle class family has paid more than that on half the furniture in their home
The collectors can get fucked. You don't own the game, you own a licence to play it.
The only party wronged was the owner of the IP.
>Imagine being so based that you abuse your vocation to commit grand theft and steal a copy of a rare game from the people who rightfully own it and have every right not to share it, all so you and your fellow misanthrope piratefags can illegally download and emulate it under the pretense of 'preservation'.
Fixed that for you!
Imagine being this loser
Haha get fucked you hoarding losers!
Lmao he got fucked so hard. Thats what you get for being a selfish jew.
Games need to be copied and preserved.
Looks legitimately fun as fuck.
Hey user, I have a $1,000 pencil here I'd like to sell to you. It's WAY cheaper than a sedan, so that makes it a pretty good deal, don't you think?
And this is exactly how you convince a bunch of commies to defend a company.
>commies
>implying
>implying anyone is defending Atari
retard
>the real victim here is the multimillionaire company
ayy LMAO
This would actually be a really good plot for a heist movie.
>multimillionaire company
>atari
Did I get transported back to the 70's?
The lengths people will go to in order to get attention on the internet. Was the money worth it -- to fake this whole narrative?
Wagecucks are really predictable. Is in their veins to defend the moneybags of their master.
Get out of here, talking chimp; you're stoned again.
Looks like shit
Atari is barely even keeping their head above the water after turning to the dark side and filing for bankruptcy and going all-in on casino gambling games. They don't even employ more than ten people nowadays.
Not defending copyright laws. Just saying that it's the only kind of "law" broken in this instance.
Atari ceased to exist a long time ago, the name was sold to some fags who wanted to pretend.
>Atari announced a deal with GSD Group to build Atari Hotels, with the first breaking ground in Phoenix in mid-2020. Additional hotels were also planned in Las Vegas, Denver, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, and San Jose
Such a small indie company. Poor things.
I want to have sex with this cute little random anime girl.
Begone, phile of pedos.
Why hoard it in a vault when you can horde it digitally outside your country to avoid paying taxes on your "investments "
Except they still have a one of a kind cabinet with historic value and the only way of an authentic experience playing the game.
If you stand to save more money by dodging taxes then investing it then damn right people will horde it
Wrong site, try Reddit
Good, fuck every single one of these collector faggots like him and that Klonoa autist
I know I said they're the victim and from a legal perspective it's true. I personally don't give a fuck about piracy.
The collectors have no entitlement to control of the software.
the 360 still hasn't been softmodded
Which is funny because salaried members are incompetent fucktwits that can't keep anything in order and only care about bonuses
YAAAAAAASSSSSS FUCK DA RICH
#FEELTHEBERN #IWANTFREESHIT
>they make people pay for tickets to attend their private arcades just to even TRY the game
and they will continue to do so because the serious collectors or enthusiasts will still go and view the original machine and even still pay to touch it and play it because the entire value is in the machine's originality and rarity. i can go download a 7500x12000 image of the mona lisa from wikipedia for free right now, print it out, and hang it my house. that still isn't going to devalue the painting or stop enthusiasts from flying to paris to pay to see the original in person because that is still a rarity those people want to view and look at in person.
>Can you justify an act of dickery for the greater good?
Yes
Proof: Robin Hood is remembered as a hero and a saint.
Convenient how you leave out the fact that walmart smothers local businesses
(You)
I cant tell whose side you are on
Your comment amused me because the Louvre is closed due to beer virus right now. Thanks user
Ugly graphics. Why do you retards care.
Because information deserves to be preserved for all to experience it.
By providing more products at better prices, yes.
>subhuman bootlickers
>"you don't actually own your video games they belong to the corporations"
>also subhuman bootlickers
>"IT'S THEFT THOSE ROMS BELONG TO THE HOARDERS"
Hoarders still have the ROM, they have no right to the IP, which is the only that got infringed when the ROM was distributed.
Stop responding to yourself OP its pretty obivous you are doing this just to get more replies for your thread
And piracy offers games at a cheaper price. Don't like it? Too bad, that's the free market. :)))
They didn't make it thus they were not entitled to it. It wasn't their IP.
By offering inferior products and then undercutting everyone else so that eventually the only thing available is the inferior product
Have you ever tried to find a baby bottle not made in China out of toxic plastics?
It's pretty much impossible in a store now, you have to go online
Paying money doesn't entitle you to exclusivity, unless the original owner of the IP sold you the rights to the IP. Autistic hoarders didn't buy the rights to the IP, they're not owed SHIT aside from their copy of the ROM. Funny how you love law and authority, except when it doesn't align with your moralfag contrarian opinions.
Free market isn't allowed to work both ways, it is just a mean for the rich to do whatever they want. That's how these contrarian faggot suburban teenagers creamed themselves about when they live voraciously through the corporations they bootlick for free.
No one is defending corporations, every claim about atari itt is about how the hoarders weren't wronged, and if someone was, it was atari.
No one is saying they are victims or that they should send C&D letters to whoever uploaded them, just that the claim that the arcade owners were wronged is wrong.
Why the fuck are you faggots so disingenious and quick to anger, holy shit.
I never said anything bad about piracy and I think it's hilarious that The Three Cabinetaros had their stupid little asshole club ruined.
So you can still get your dumb artisan baby bottle--probably off of Amazon, which I'm sure you also hate--for cheaper than you ever could before in human history.
YAAAAAAAAASSSSS FUCK THE PEOPLE!
#FREEDOMISSLAVERY
#MAGA
I bet modern Atari is creaming themselves thinking about including a never before released arcade title in their new VCS console that everyone thought was a flop.
>JIVE TURKEYS BTFO
Ataribros
We just keep winning
>Why the fuck are you faggots so disingenious and quick to anger, holy shit.
Because real conversations would require a little bit of tact and logic, but if you’re responding to anonymous then you can go full monkeybrain and fling your shit around the room at the drop of a hat.
>Wanting to feed your child without china poison is artisan now
user...
You can probably recreate an atari game in like 15 minutes, why bother?
>literally nothing was stolen, only pirated
>cabinets were not damaged or destroyed in any way, shape, or form, and was even repaired/maintained by the person that did it
>hoarderfags still have the ability to scalp tickets for the privilege to try out the game
>hoarderfags also all happen to be rich autists anyway, and the tickets are a side hustle AT BEST
>cabinets are still valuable because they're still literally the only PHYSICAL originals in existence, and at worst, took a modest drop in value because of the preservation
>most people are still too retarded to use MAME, meaning the "authentic experience" is still valuable
>Atari is unaffected by any of this because the company is long defunct
>nothing was even stolen, so the person responsible can't even be taken to court
>the general public now has access to a game that would've otherwise been lost forever since the source code is long gone, and the hoarderfags are literal autists
This is about as victimless of a crime as it gets. Hell, in an ironic twist, this would actually raise awareness of the game and in effect give an incentive to see the original cabinet(s) in the first place.
You can do that at any single time in your life, you coward. You SHOULDN'T, because worsening a community you're part of is extremely retarded.
The game actually looks pretty neat
Is that even a crime? It's not like the cabinet owners own the copyright for the game
Because it's like the tempest cabinet someone made
You can't get the same experience with JUST a description of what it was like. If you do, it's just a mockery of that game.
Meanwhile this was a real never before seen thing that was lost to history until some faggot collectors got their shit pushed in. Even if no one played it, it's still a stepping stone for Atari and Arcades; pieces and parts of this game would go on to show up in almost every game they made since that.
>>nothing was even stolen, so the person responsible can't even be taken to court
Kinda what I was thinking. What could you even get him on? He didn't destroy property, didn't modify it, and didn't steal it. The only law he possibly broke that I can think of is Atari's IP, MAYBE. But a collector has no standing to sue since he isn't the IP Holder.
>Explain why Yea Forums can be disingenuous and quick to anger
>Get disingenuous and quick to anger response
Like clockwork....
>Is that even a crime?
Nope. Atari is the only victim here, and that would be 70's era Atari.
Modern Atari is likely happy that they get to use the game again, even if it's just a ROM.
Legally speaking it would probably be considered a breach of trust
Agreed. Anything to fuck them over and ruin their lives the better. Love to see it happen
It would be pretty funny if business picked up as a result. The repairman would have grounds to sue.
It's honestly almost as bad as buying an exotic endangered animal where you own the last male species and you refuse to let it breed.
Honestly fuck em and more power to the pirates.
game actually looks fun
cloning exist as well as crispr, so basically you don't need to male to reproduce a species.
>making people pay to play a shitty game like that
Some people sure are assholes
Would have been a killer in arcades, not sure why it didn't catch on.
the devs are all dead and gone
multithousand dollar*
>dead and gone
That was only 40 years ago.
you'll live 40 years from now
These people don't give a shit about the game itself, they're only concerned with the prestige of owning something very rare. Fuck em'.
this made my night, it looks pretty fucking dope too.
I love videogames.
Why is it that hoarders are , always without fucking exception, just a bunch of autistic, attention starved, misanthropes? With physical goods, we're lucky that the shit they're hoarding will eventually pass hands once they die alone, childless, and unmourned. But, with the advent of digital, now these subhumans actually contribute to arts and projects disappearing for good.
Has anyone played the game?
What do you expect? Hoarding is an actual mental disorder.
>atari can now include their lost child in their new box
hope you enjoy my little tribute i had to do it.
Here's to you, anonymous funky soul. You're keeping the groove alive even in these wack ass times full of jive turkeys.
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The only reason they don't want to share it is because they were making money off of it. All collectors for video games are like this. They hope one day they can either sell a rare game for way more than they purchased it for or do what these guys are doing.
I'm surprised it actually looks fun. Most old ass atari games suck total dick, aside from like Defender or Galaga or something.
>that ars technica article
>half the posts are white knighting some retarded kid that was too lazy to google what MAME is
Good. I hope he pissed on their arcade cabinets too. Stupid hoarding shits.
>user thinks Normie laws like Inflation and Taxes apply to the 1%
serves them right for paying 11k for a fucking video game
No because you'd have more fun playing Tetris on a TI83.
Which is why a certain group of people are bootyblasted over it. The machine's still in perfect pristine condition with its owner. If Atari bothers to sue then so be it, but legally there's nothing wrong.
What a fucking chad.
>gives walmart the funds to have stores everywhere with low prices
Yes, this surely affects no one.
this. collectorkikes make me sick.
>Normie laws like Inflation
...are you retarded?
lol hi kikes, how's your arcade collection doing?
God I hope not.
There are three laws: the law of animals, the law of mankind, and the law of God.
The law of animals says: "Might is Right", "the whole of the Law shall be 'Do What Thou Wilt'", and "nothing is true: everything is permitted". This is the Law of the Jungle.
The law of mankind says: "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth", and "do unto others as they do to you". This is Lex Talionis.
The law of God says: "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", and "turn the other cheek". This is the Golden Law.
You are an animal.
>grand theft
>theft
The fag still has his arcade machine. It still works just like before. Nothing changed.
It's more like taking a picture of the Mona Lisa with your phone. You now have a copy of it to enjoy whenever you want but that doesn't change the fact it's still just an inferior copy.
I wish I was that much of a big dick alpha Chad.
Humans are animals you fucking retard. Also God doesn't exist.
Humans have animal bodies but divine spirits, and thus are caught between the realms of animals and Gods you fucking retard.
I don't have any change you filthy hippie.
>hippie
You don't even know the meanings of the words you are using, lungfish.
Hippie: Any faggot who thinks "there are spirits around us, bro. You just gotta feel it. You can totally reach a complete understanding of the universe by meditating, bro."
I don't care what specific kind of retard you identify as. Fuck you.
First of all: I said nothing even remotely resembling your strawman. Second: hippies were literally a reaction AGAINST spiritual thinking and are atheistic at their ideological foundation. See: John Lennon's "Imagine". Third: you are literally irredeemably retarded.
I don't wanna listen to that shit, just like I don't listen to you saying we are bologna in the sandwich of creation, stuck between 2 worlds, one of them being filthy animals and the other being some divine mumbo jumbo. You are full of shit and the only reason you are here is because your father ejaculated inside your mother, none of us is special. Eat shit.
Its over.
The piratecels....won........
All of that regurgitated bullshit is irrelevant to the FACT that you're using basic words that you have no concept of, and thus are stupid, and thus your opinions are automatically invalid
You might as well just say "hurrr durrr I just discovered Ragnar Redbeard and Aleister Crowley aren't I smart?"
That's nice I guess but god damn videos like this really show that collectorfags are sick in the head. Imagine paying $11k for something you can whip up in Gamemaker in an hour lmao
But can Atari handle the return of its ancient foe Intillivision, with such modern games as: Asteroids, Bad Dudes, B-17 Bomber, Earthworm Jim 4, R-Type, and Toejam and Earl?
That looks so fucking retarded and i love it. Nowadays there is market for these shitty plastic toys again, thanks again to emulation for making shit like raspberry machines easy to build for everybody.
technically, this should be between Atari and the repairman, the collector doesn't OWN the game
>collectorcuck spergs because his collector honor code doesn't mean shit for the law
lmaoooo
FPBP
LETS ALL SHIT ON HOARDFAGS
I want to live off her milk
Boy, sure is video games in this thread...
imagine being so mad over free shitty video game
>Physical hardware deteriorates
>ROMs are infinitely copied so they do not
imagine bootlicking some fag who wants something to be lost to time because they wanted to be a part of some cool kids club. They still have their arcade machine, the only thing that changed is a game is now preserved that otherwise wouldn't have been. I know you think people just wanna do it for piracy, but people would happily buy their own copies if they paid a VIDEO GAME'S worth of money for it, not a scalper's anal lube fund.
>All those (you)s
Very nice
Thank (You)
It really is that easy, folks
write a post that is completely contrarian and self righteous and you too can be rolling in easy (You)s for literally no effort