It looks like these guys have you covered:

https://retrobadge.co.uk/retrobadge/slogans-sayings-badges/normal-small-retro-badge/

My fist general purpose console was the Sega Master System. It had a flowchart displayed on the top telling you how to use it.

It might not have been pretty in the traditional sense but I loved it.

Looking back on it the chart was somewhat misleading, the console had two built in games that were only accessible if you didn’t insert a cartridge or card (Hang On, and Safari Hunt), and a third that also needed a controller connected and a few buttons held down when you turned the system on (snail maze).

It feels like its moment has passed.

A great example, immersion held a patent and blocked the competition.

However if Sony (or anyone else) had developed and released a product (or even published a design) using the same technical implementation before 1996 then that would have established prior art and no one would be able to patent it.

Is a crappy situation but patents don’t enable the patent holder to make a product, after all you can make the product without claiming a patent. Instead they stop people who are not the patent holder from making that product.

So if we put on our tinfoil hats its likely that some “just in case” patents are really just stopping their competition from heading in that direction.

This needs to be killed as we have prior art (Emulators, Braid, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, heaps of racing games, etc).

If their only significant addition is “we a have a button for it” then we need to ask if a button qualifies as “inventive” in 2024?

Edit:

Announcer: Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history? At the MERE PUSH of a SINGLE BUTTON! The beeyootiful shiny button! The jolly candy-like button! Will he hold out, folks? CAN he hold out?

- Space Madness (1991)

I would like to play a reimagining with only the two factions and not two many unit types. If they updated with modern QoL but kept the actual mechanics simple it would make a nice casual game.

But what do I know, I think that Anno on Wii is the best Anno.

I doubt they want comparisons to Leisure Suit Larry.

• Unique Selling Points: Unlike other messaging tools, emojam […] offers a “puzzle-solving” element by encouraging kids to decode messages using emojis.

😒

I this is the most effective search I could find:

https://www.google.com/search?q=“Mozilla’s+Firefox+Send”

Not great for a product that is not Mozilla’s Firefox Send!

They have a crazy history of buying and selling companies and IPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA#History

When they have good times they buy what they can, then when they hit hard times it all ends up offered in a fire sale.

To add to the confusion Atari announced earlier this year that they would restore the Infogrames brand as a publishing label.

Now we get stuff like this :

Apparently, you can install Windows inside DOSBox, but is that really stable and usable for layman? Are there any other approaches?

I think thats where PCem or 86box becomes more helpful.

I guess that would do it.

At home I’ve got a pihole

How is the pihole from a maintenance perspective?

I have my family using adguard DNS on our mobile devices and it does a great job of killing ads in the mobile games my son plays (and browsers of course).

I unfortunately can’t run adblockers at my job.

Ouch! We have deployed ad blockers on all supported bowsers as a matter of policy to meet our security goals.

I bought this skittles set for the kids to have a competition at a kids birthday party. The pins and ball are reasonable quality but the staples holding the box together fell apart the second we tried to pack it away.

Wondering if you should watch Beetlejuice today?

Yes.

I haven’t seen any more than the single tile on my xbox home screen.

I wonder if its regional or just that my ad blockers are working.

Ive never seen either, is it a new phenomenon?

Are you looking to run on actual hardware?

If not then you might want to also consider fantasy consoles.

I understand this may scale up to high end PCs (and PS5 pro?) better than the original, but does it offer any advantages on basic PS5 when compared to the original and the PS5 patch they released a couple of years ago?