What a fucking DISASTER...

I remember a game that came out in 2014 called Minimum. It was made by Atari, Human Head Studios, and Cubed Productions. I fell in love with the gameplay and grinded the game. One day, everybody lost their progress and the servers were down. Turns out, the developers just dropped the game and ran with our money. The servers eventually came back up years later but no one plays anymore.

Nearly 3 years later and the Atari VCS STILL not available for sale. But hey, at least you can still pre-order it which is really all that matters.

These companies that use the classic brands to push their garbage need to stop. Coleco Chameleon, Atari VCS, Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega what's next TIGER ELECTRONICS?

It's good to be back indeed. A new Indiegogo video from StopDrop&Retro is awesome by default but going after Atari VCS? Legendary!

At least it isn't a old tablet Oh wait

Stopdrop&retro - want to know more about the Atari VCS modern controller bait & switch... Contact Dreamgear and ask them for an interview regarding their exclusive deal with Atari that they would provide their design, engineering & firmware to Atari to be the exclusive manufacturer & have 2 yrs exclusive selling the Atari controller direct as a 2nd controller to buyers Then Atari rewrote the contract and took out all exclusiveness for Dreamgear then announced their first IndieGoGo and Dreamgear formerly contact Atari and withdrew from all deals with Atari and then Atari had no controller for the VCS and had to show a solid plastic mock-up at GDC... I know everything going on behind the scenes so there’s your tip now go after it.

The fact that this video is 2 years old and is still relevant is fucking great.

I was seriously considering buying the VCS, even though I knew about the whole Indigogo and no prototype trick. Thank you for helping me decide to keep my money.

*I have solution comrade.*

I was considering getting only VCS's joystick and modern controller, because hey, they look cool. But after all this...

Totally forgot about those phones/tablets at E3. I knew about the Gameband. Didn't know they were distancing themselves from it. Jesus...this is a shit show. Great coverage.

Of all the videos I've seen about the Atari box this one absolutely kills it thank you very much, very well done. scammers exposed.

I love your research on these. Thank you!!!

You are the "content cop" of indiegogo and kickstarter. keep up the good work, pal! more power to your channel especially in exposing those scammers that only want some cash grab through their hideous campaigns.

StopDrop&Retro: Great video. I learned a lot from it. Subscribed.

I was waiting for you to make this video for a long time, your analysis are great!

Your Kickstarter investigation videos always make my day

weird looking back on this and actually owning one now. I don't even play games on it I just turned it into a Linux server

Watching again this video is as good if not better than the first time. Amazing investigative work.

Been waiting for this one for awhile. Great job!

This is why I subscribed to your channel. Thank you. Incidentally, I'm interested that the Atari Retro has 19 reviews, mostly of five stars, even though it hasn't been released yet...

THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS!!!!!!

SMACH Z IS BACK IT HAS A TRAILER!!! Please make a video about it!! 🙏

was waiting for you so long. finally the video

Been waiting for you man, thanks for the vid

Thanks for hearing my request, StopDrop&Retro I'm willing to wait for more of your content Absolutely love your content

Missed you and the quality content so much Retro ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Finally! I was waiting for this.

thanks for the video, had no idea this was the state of things. was considering their products but now I know better

great video! I love your reporting on this and the Retro VGS/Coleco Chameleon debacles.

OOOOh, I've been waiting for this. Based off of Atari's recent behaviour, I think there might be a sequel video sometime in the future.

Really wish you'd upload videos more often but i understand there's a lot of investigation involved. Thanks for this one

Thank you for making my Saturday nice ^^

Was just watching some of your old stuff yesterday, what are the odds!

The other dead giveaway with the Tempest 4000 clip, is the Atari prototype isn't even hooked up to anything; much less powered on! Go back and look again, no wires going to the actual prototype console sitting off to the side. I was kind of excited when I first heard about this console, but I'm getting convinced it's never going to happen. I'm glad I didn't throw any money at it. By the way, the specs mention something about Whole Home functionality?? Another nail into the coffin, how in the world would the Atari prototype do any kind of Whole Home anything???

Coming back to this after the damn thing actually released is kinda trippy. It may not be that good but at least its real, unlike a certain Coleco console… and also an Intellivision one.

So glad you're back! Thought you were done for.

This video needs to shared far and wide, excellent work

Good to see you back it man!

I was waiting for you to do a video on them. ^^

Now that's it's out I hope you can make a review about the VCS and a complete overview on the road they took And maybe something about amico

Hey my name is Thomas Riccardi and I am a writer for Comix Asylum so I referenced your video in my article. Thank you for all of your research and a great video! :D

Ahh its the celico debacle all over again....sorta

Funny thing about that Tempest 4000 "demo" is you can tell it's running on Intel integrated graphics because the powerups aren't being displayed correctly.

I was thinking about buying this. Thank you for the video!

I enjoyed that and just subbed on the basis of that one video :)

About time! Welcome back!

He’s back baby, with another shady as fuck Kickstarter. Seriously you have no idea how much I enjoy these, keep up the great work!

Glad you took your time to cover this potential scam in detail. It is nice to see something that doesn't just re-hash the same points that have been overdone​.

Lol quality products love the shrimp reference was dying the whole vid why do people keep giving them money its too funny how dumb they are and oh ya the stupid watch had an 128 gig sd thats is the biggest copy of pong ever its like 5 mb and who would play on a watch from a bubble gum machine these people running this are hallarious almost as funny as the people who give them money was waiting for u too a vid on this topic well worth the wait thanks for the vid ur awesome

Great video :) I'm just waiting for someone to make the $30 Raspberry Pi/Odroid case that looks like that and I'm never going to think about the Ataribox ever again :)

I was hoping you'd cover this

I've been waiting for this :)

Missed you man! Welcome back!

Wonderful! Subbed because of this

I almost skipped past this video because i thought it was for a game called "Cut n Run". Boy am I glad i didnt skip it. Top notch investigative reporting once again Stop Drop! I know youtube isnt your income source so you probably cant dedicate the amount of time youd like to to it, but I sure wish you could make more videos like this. Well done sir!

I can't be the only one who wants to try some lemon or coconut shrimp after seeing this video.

The magic man returns! Also good to see you too Retro 😄

Super informative and to the point... kudos

so it's december of 2019 and they're still 4 months away.

Was waiting for you to murder this project. (As if they didnt already murder themselves.)

Actually, the company currently operating as Atari acquired the brand in 2000, not 2014. It was formerly known as Infogrames, a French game developer. Infogrames changed their name to Atari after their purchase of the original Atari IP, which came with their purchase of Hasbro Interactive in 2000 (Hasbro had purchased the Atari IP in 1998 from the company that had acquired the original 1972 company). The current Atari filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganized itself in 2014, with a new business strategy,, which may explain their somewhat heightened activity over the past 4 years.

Great video as always. Thanks for all the effort you put out to expose these sham companies.

The title of the video was stopping me from watching but now I watched. I genuinely enjoyed the video.

Damn has it really been that long and it JUST came out??

Another informative video, even if it is sad to see how this is playing out (ALREADY).

Well it finally launched, and surprise, it's a piece of shit

Great work!

Atari should just manufacture famiclones and sell them in China, I heard that that's where the money's at

FINALY A NEW VIDEO!!!!!!

This is the best vid I've seen exposing this thus far while being entertained

The Atari retro handheld, If you look on the back you can see it says blaze which is the same company that sells the flashback portables (its called atgames in us and blaze in UK) so its Most likely the same license from the flashback portable

I can't wait for 20 yrs from now when i can finally own the Ouya retro console...

"Atari is no longer associated with the VCS, we have decided to go our separate ways... the #realwood comes with us though."

Well it took three years but you can actually buy the vcs in stores, people even played cyberpunk 2077 on it. From memory people weren't sure the type of audience it was for(I might be wrong tho).

Please keep making more videos!

Otherwise there is the Hyperkin RetroN 77 which seems to be the best alternative for those who want a "modern" Atari 2600 that can read as much the original cartridge as an SD card.

Great video man...First one i've seen of yours and immediately subbed...I hope to see more from you, unless Atari's hitman gets you first...LOL 😉

YOU’RE BACK !!

Nice to see Atari is still behaving today the way they did in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Weirdly enough we did end up getting the roller coaster tycoon 3 port on switch 2 years later

Hahah. Clicked just because I thought this vid was just the boldest damn attempt at clickbait I've ever seen about the original VCS/2600, but lo and behold it turned to be one of the finest vids I've seen about the spiritual Coleco Chameleon -sequel. :D Perhaps that indeed was the strategy, and in that case; well baited! Especially effective since as a non-native English-speaker, the term 'CUT N' RUN' didn't mean anything to me without context, it just sounded like a generic game title. Great experience all around, subscribed. On the topic itself, this is just getting funnier and funnier + sadder and sadder all the damn time. Even knowing all this, many are still ok with supporting this fiasco. Some people are just as defeatist about the project as I am, but are still ready to dish out hundreds of €£$ on this vapour, just because it's got an Atari logo on it. I guess that's fandom for ya.

*REAL* *WOOD*

Always nice to see a video filled with actual research instead of assumptions and fear-mongering. Yeah, everyone could tell this project was a bad idea from the get-go, but taking the effort to find evidence of the company's past behavior is better than just saying "kickstarter sucks" while standing in front of a wall of old games like everyone else would do.

The Atari Retro handheld was made by Blaze Entertainment as far as I know, so it could be argued it's not really an Atari product. It has the Atari name all over it though.

Awesome video man

About time for a good roasting!!!

Better question: where's the All Controller? They say they'll ship this year

I love your video's :D

I think Atari SA was still around before bankruptcy came in around 2014, and if I recall, they used to be called Infogrames. So in other words, Infogrames (under the Atari shell) is trying to get back into the limelight after the failure that was the 2000s.

I love this guy! I'm watching more!

oh boy oh man im so excited i been wanting this ever since that twitch guy talked about atari for 5 minutes

Your back!!!! Finally!!!

i just realized the atari vcs has lots of exclusives if you use pc mode as in the atari vcs has exclusive games on pc mode that can not be played on xbox playstation or nintendo

Feargal Mac: I don't feel so good.

It seems to me that they bought Atari and started licensing out the name to everyone and everything willing to pay for it. Now they‘ve lost track of who is/was even using their name and are trying to backpaddle in order to „save“ their actual own Atari Box project.

THANK YOU FOR sifting thru all of their shit and setting it straight! I was actually excited and thought they were a serious company that was actually going to bring a new console to the market but after this I think I will move on and not get too excited!!!!!!

Sounds like this is where Soulja Boy got his inspiration.

Man, you got so much content to cover! Smachz "prototype PCB" Atari VCS updates, Sony Playtation "classic" shit, there was something else but I forgot.. oh and Aido is officially dead!