Comments on: Online gaming will turn Atari around, says Gardner

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:52:02 +0000

haha

Brian, N’Gai or Chris, you’re perfectly entitled to slag me off on the internet should you ever read any of this.

By: AMG

AMG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:49:54 +0000

Deep, man. My favourite over-hearing was a very respected industry analyst describing Brian Crecente as “evil looking”

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:44:58 +0000

Not that I saw, nope. I was getting MSNs about him from the Microsoft conference and his chats with the Wired guy. Apparently Croal does great formatting on his interviews. Chris Kohler’s very envious.

By: AMG

AMG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:41:44 +0000

Haha. He was funny at that lunch - excited but still mumbling. He had good table manners though, I like that in a designer. N’Gai Croal actually started nodding off during the lunch, it was very disappointing. Hardly a cutting edge, hard news writer. Did he actually write anything up on his blog about the lunch?

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:35:18 +0000

Raph commented on that report we did from the Luminaries Lunch at GDC. We misquoted him a bit. Sorry about that, Raph.

By: AMG

AMG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:21:57 +0000

According to Raph Koster, “Flash is the Web console” Bless him.

By: Rhythm

Rhythm — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:14:08 +0000

I think there’s a lot of people would happily pay for Flash games. Flash is secretly the start of the one console future

By: frod

frod — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:12:02 +0000

I’d happily pay a nominal fee for quality Flash gaming. For every diamond you find, there’s an awful lot of Elf Bowling type crap out there.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:00:45 +0000

That’s a very good point. I know I wouldn’t. But they do have a huge amount of IP. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there that might pay a small amount for a portal membership that gave access to all Atari’s old games, for example.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:58:34 +0000

But would people ever pay for Flash games when there are a gazillion ‘free’ ones out there?

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:52:50 +0000

Yep, I reckon he is. Apparently there was a huge amount of talk of Flash games at GDC this year, and lots of “instant” gaming on display.

By: frod

frod — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:45:06 +0000

“The former Electronic Arts veteran has also said the company has a rich portfolio of titles from acquired companies such as Gremlin, GT Interactive, Ocean Software and Accolade”

I am interested. I assume they’re talking about Flash gaming? I think there is a lot of mileage in branding and marketing a portal for modernised versions of old games from the “Home computer” era. It’s quite rich compared to the ‘productized’ gaming model we see today.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:29:25 +0000

Could surprise us all yet. Apparently they’ve got super-cash this time around.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:18:30 +0000

Oh dear. There goes another Atari.