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Like I was saying earlier, a lot of devs put games on there just to get our feedback.

And you know what? Not everyone can afford an $80 to $100 or whatever physical cartridge from Atari age.

In this economy, whenever gas is approaching $5 for a regular gallon right now because of the stupid government stuff going on and whatever's going on up there, it sucks.

And you know what? not all of us can afford to do that and i i get that so there's emulation of course which i'm a big fan of as well i love physical media but i also love emulation because not everyone can afford it now the atari vcs has also lately become kind of a atari jukebox for homebrew games for 2600 and 7800 homebrews and more and i think it's fantastic and you can buy these games right now for the next few months at least for the next couple of months next two months or so for about $5 a pop or less.

So power dubs has been a great friend.

He's over on a blue sky and Twitter as well.

He's a great creator that puts out content on Atari Age and other places about Atari news.

He's been one of my sources, and him and I work together at times.

I mean, highlights, you wanna just talk...

We got Jaguar games, we got 5200 games [laughs], we got Lynx games, and this is all from AtariAge, which is part of Atari.

Yep.

Not to mention, uh, doodads and whatnots to go with those games.

Okay.

Which works with that.

Um, but if you buy a copy of this for $60 from AtariAge, um, it will...

It's for the 7800.

There, there's the question right there.

Is it bringing people back who didn't get back into Intellivision because it was always kind of so difficult, and the community was this niche thing off to the side in the AtariAge forums and on the websites and such, and now this is a product from Atari available on Amazon or via Atari or whatever that's available to everyone, so the person who was never gonna look at an AtariAge forum or never gonna look at a website says, "Hey, I can play Astro Smash on, that I used to play when I was a kid, so I'm gonna pick one up on Amazon." Are those the people that it's bringing back, or is it people who like games in general, uh, retro games and tinkering with these things? Is it bringing them from whatever genre they were looking at before over to the Intellivision? And the bottom line is it's a combination of both.

Yeah.

Uh, there's...

... it's a larger group than what we had there, people who love to tinker, love to make different things.

Uh, and I'll tell you a little proof of that is, for example, when I get the Intellivision Sprint, I am looking for something to play Intellivision as effectively and easily as possible, including being able to record and stream and, and all the different things I wanted to do with my Intellivision back before I could do it even with the Ultimate Flashback.

Um, you're also seeing a large number of these people that get into the Intellivision Sprint, they're very visible in, in the Intellivision, uh, or AtariAge forums in the Sprint sections, and they're all of a sudden talking or thinking about, "Hey, I could take the Sprint and I could put the Sega Genesis on it."

Mm-hmm.