The Atari Vault just got released for Steam, it contains 100

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Is it free? Does it offer any advantage over free emulation whatsoever, even a very trivial one? Then probably not.

>>3094753
>paying for abandonware
Do you take us for idiots?

>>3094782
>Online and Local Multiplayer and Steam Leaderboards – For the first time ever, battle for arcade supremacy online or at home and compare your high scores with players from around the world.
Idiot here, I'm almost dumb enough for this, but not for $17

it probably cant even emulate pitfall 2 properly

>>3094781
>>3094782
>acting this entitled to theft
>thinking it's ok to ignore intellectual property rights simply because something is old
>calling it abandonware when it's still being commercially sold
And people say the in/v/asion is exaggerated.

>>3094753
>no Chopper Command, Demon Attack, Megamania, River Raid or Turmoil
>but it has Hangman, Checkers and Basic fucking Math

>>3094808
I hate when I can't discern sarcasm because it's written.

>>3094808
It's legally ok to "steal" abandonware, because nobody actually owns it, though.

>>3094808
I was pirating games before you were born, kiddo

>>3094852
>kiddo
Ah, yes, talk like the adults. We'll accept you faster.

>>3094782
All else aside, if new copes are being sold, it's not abandonware.

>>3094849
Atari is still around

>>3094930
>We
Sure thing, rom-buying /v/ kid.

>>3094935
I don't see any new officially licensed Atari 2600 cartridges at any retail stores...

>>3094942
It's a confusing post but I figure he's probably meaning to respond just to the first two parts of >>3094808 in regards to the topic of abandonware, and not the "calling it abandonware" part in regards to these particular games.

>>3094942
Not the same Atari that made Atari 2600.

The modern Atari is basically Infogrammes.

>>3094753

I think I might. What's the price again?

>>3094954
Are you sure that's the important part?
That makes it sound like you're saying download-only games are abandonware from birth because they don't have physical copies.

I'm guessing maybe what you want to express is that these Steam copies may not give you real access to the data found on the original cartridges if the data's encrypted together with the emulator software, effectively creating a situation in which the actual original software isn't directly available, only an approximation.
Though I don't know if that actually applies to this particular release; it may be that it's not made to be hard to take apart.

>On June 22, 2014, Atari announced a new corporate strategy that would include a focus on "new audiences", specifically "LGBT, social casinos, real-money gambling, and YouTube".

Fuck Atari. Everyone ITT should pirate their games out of principle.

>>3094990

>muh /pol/ agenda

Go fuck yourself.

>>3094990
>hating progressivism
>>>/pol/

>>3094993
>being a libcuck

Shouldn't you be off watching your wife have sex with a nigger?

>>3094991
>>3094993
So the other three things are just fine then?

>>3094753
>emulator
>in opengl
>Windows only

No thanks.

I just pirate whatever I want until I feel guilty then I send Nolan Bushnell a nice fruit basket. Morally, this is a much better system than buying on Steam.

>>3094808
Not a penny of this goes towards the creators. It's all going to the corporations who happened to buy the licenses from defunct companies.

There's no reason to buy digital copies of old games.

I'll be getting it eventually. I like Atari games and I'm involved enough Steam to care about earning some achievements and more importantly, maybe get some hi-score rivalries going on the leaderboards with some friends.

>>3095198
>Not a penny of this goes towards the creators. It's all going to the corporations who happened to buy the licenses from defunct companies.
>There's no reason to buy digital copies of old games.
>it's not morally wrong because it's not the original owners
>my desire for free games is more important than recognizing revenue rights for legally owned properties
The /v/anity continues.

>>3095307
>sucking up to patent whores
Please kill yourself, thanks.

sure is a lot of atari shilling ITT. give us a reason why we should buy non-physical DRM'd games

>>3095423
Achievements! Just joking.

It's only worth grabbing for the arcade ports, since it's too easy to pirate Atari 2600 games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-EIfj_xoY

>>3094990

>"we want the gay Let's Player gambling addict audience"

what

>>3094852
>>3094852
'kiddo' on /vr/ is cancer

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I have an Atari XEGS and plenty of multicarts. No need to buy this. Also

>paying for 35 years old roms
>probably all the devs who made those games are dead/retired
>Atari didnt even let them put credits on the games they made

I love atari, but you should have to be a fool to give free money to the cancer that is Steam just because your nostalgia.

>>3094849
Thanks, kid in the internet who's also a lawyer. I've heard lots of different stories about this but now due to the presence of an esteemed world class IP lawyer on 4chan I have a definitive answer.

Another question. I'm going through a messy divorce and not happy with how my current lawyer is handling it. Do any of your friends who are also kids the internet who also are lawyers handle divorces? Or are you maybe just such an awesome kid on the internet that you do that as well?

tl;dr topkekkid

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>$19.99
Idk, I'm a sucker for well-done emulation packages but you can do a lot better for less than $20. I'd rather play these on a handheld in shorts bursts anyway.

>directx version 11 for 1980 games
Are people fucking stupid?

>>3095694
You suck at making jokes, Mr. Shill. Thank god your job isn't being a comedian.

>>3095694
You're an idiot. archive.org can legally host DOS games without any repercussions because DOS is abandonware now.

>>3095754
Not who you're replying to, but "abandonware" has never been a real thing, just a construct for sites to have an excuse to host old ROMs. All these games are still under copyright and cannot be legally downloaded without the permission of the copyright holder.

>>3095758
Copyrights are shit anyway, especially when they're being used to hold back intellectual curiosity and historical preservation.

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Its looks ok. Online multiplayer could be a plus. I already own an atari though, id rather not shill out 20 bucks for most games I already own.

>>3095761
May be, but legally no one has a leg to stand on when it comes to hosting ROMs.

>>3095754
>>3095765

archive.org actually does this under the preservation and archival clauses of the law and not any sort of "abandonware" malarkey.

>>3095750
>BTFO and mad
>>3095754
>kidcocounsel concurs

>>3094753
>>3094753
>are you getting it?
The better question is, who are you and why do you care? Are you getting it? Thinking about getting it? Your post specifies nothing of your intent, and as such it really is nothing other than blatant advertising.

For fuck's sake the shills don't even have to try and hide it anymore. And look, 45 replies, and no help from the mods.

Fuck you OP and all the other corporate drones in here defending bullshit cashgrab re-re-re-whatever's.

>>3094829
>>3094829

So it goes when you only have your one company's rights and not the rights of Activision, Imagic, etc.

I was intrigued by the online leaderboards potential, but not enough to buy the pack seeing as I have a 2600 and a mame cabinet.

>>3095178
I can see this.

>"package at the door honey"
>"damn it, it's that fruit guy again"

>>3095720
>>3095720
speaking of, the DS Atari Greatest Hits vol. 1 and 2 are pretty good sets.

>>3096658
Still better than buying on Steam

>>3095454
>>"we want the gay Let's Player gambling addict audience"
I see the focus group research on /v/ paid off

>100 games
>12 achievements
ya fucked up

>>3096727
>achievement 1
Play 10 games
>achievement 2
Play 20 games
>achievement 3
Play 30 games

>>3096668
I don't disagree, I just think it's funny. Imagine David Crane or some other old-timer dev surrounded by fruit.

Incidentally, a japanese dev would really appreciate a fruit basket, fruit is expensive as hell in Japan.

>>3096751
I'd just order them random stuff on Yahoo Auctions I wish I could afford to have shipped to me like JDM cosmetic parts for 80s cars.

>Senpai, stupid gaijin send another set of Supra tail lights
>Throw on pile, Honorable Waifu

>>3094808
Intellectual Property is an unjust law, we have a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws.

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>>3095198
This. We should be supporting content creators, not content transmitters. Ever notice the people who complain the most about piracy are almost never content-creators themselves?

Game publishers act like piracy is this horrible unquenchable dark force of greed, but the runaway success of indie games like Minecraft, Undertale, and Stardew Valley shows us that in general, the internet has no problem giving people money if the product is actually worth buying. Doom was one of the best-selling games of all time despite having absolutely no copy protection.

"Piracy is theft", of course, is a whiny emotional appeal that has no basis in objective reality. It's the copyright equivalent of saying "abortion is murder."

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>>3097374
>conflating desire to rightfully support content creators with justification to selectively ignore property rights
Just so you know, pretty much everyone who pirates software that's changed hands also pirate tons of indie games. In the end, they really only care about what they can get for free. The "I only want to support the original devs" argument is, in the real world, very rarely used beyond justification for "I don't want to give money to someone I don't like."

What typically happens is this:
>pirates supposed "abandonware"
>"The money doesn't go to the devs anyway"
>pirates Indie game
>"I'll pay for it when I have money"
>doesn't like game: "I wasn't going to buy it anyway"
OR
>likes game: "It's too late for my money to make a difference now"
OR
>likes game: "Oh, but this other game is on sale now!"

What I'm REALLY curious to see is how many successful Indie games are propped up by people who typically pirate vs. people who always acquire games honestly.

>>3094753
Fuck no. Why would i want to play this crap again.

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Was I the only one that owned this shit?

Super Breakout was GOAT.

>>3097589
>doesn't like game: "I wasn't going to buy it anyway"
>likes game: "It's too late for my money to make a difference now"

Nobody does this. Do you even have gamer friends? I can't imagine you like video games very much if you're this cynical about people who play them.

I'd also like to point out the obvious fact that if it weren't for internet piracy, the market for retro video games wouldn't even be half the size that it is. Pirates are the best thing that could ever happen to a company like Atari.

>>3097890
>personal attack
>glorifying piracy
>still doesn't address the subject of morality
Concession accepted.

>>3094808

what's with all the steam shills on /vr/

>>3097972
>morality
What's immoral about downloading bits that don't really exist?

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>>3097994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

>>3097972
"Never pay money for a game that's more than ten years old." -Iggy Azalea