There's no Sunset Riders.
It's Wednesday and today was supposed to be the day where they finally released a good game.
Fuck you Game Room.
Game Room
Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Mar 24, 2010
A downloadable portal for official emulation of retro video games for the Xbox 360 and PC, featuring offerings from the Atari 2600 and Intellivision as well as early arcade games by Atari and Konami.
There's no Sunset Riders
" @GlenTennis: you think that's a bigger insult then charging $3 for Venetian Blinds? "Yes, because it's the established norm that they are going to release shitty games. They promised Sunset Riders. It was even in the pack that everyone had downloaded onto their Xbox, and now it's not there.
" @Sin4profit said:I bet they noticed all the hype and are now going to release it for the regular XBLA." @GlenTennis: you think that's a bigger insult then charging $3 for Venetian Blinds? "Yes, because it's the established norm that they are going to release shitty games. They promised Sunset Riders. It was even in the pack that everyone had downloaded onto their Xbox, and now it's not there. "
And where does it say that Sunset Riders is included? Is it in the my Memory section?
" @GlenTennis: Venetian Blinds is not a shitty game...it's literally not a game at all...Yeah but you don't have to buy it.
"You open the blinds, there's a window with a view of the sunset..."game"over...$3.
source: http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=2701
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As the name implies the Venetian Blinds demo isn't a game, but a demo that simulates a pair of Venetian blinds! The joystick can be used to raise and lower the blinds by pushing up or down. When the blinds are raised a nicely done sunset is visible out the window.
The story behind the Venetian Blind demo is rather interesting. As most people know, Activision was founded by several ex-Atari employees who had left due to Atari's policies on programmer recognition (or the lack thereof). One of these employees was Bob Whitehead, creator of the "Venetian Blinds" technique, which was first used in Atari's Video Chess to display eight objects in a row instead of the normal six. Even though Activision had never used the Venetian Blinds technique in any of their games, that didn't stop Atari from threatening to sue Activision for "stealing" the technique along with other various proprietary information.
Since Activision knew that they hadn't stolen anything from Atari, they decided to play a little joke on Atari. According to David Crane, when the Atari's lawyers questioned them about the "stolen" Venetian Blinds technique David showed them this demo and said "Is this what you guys are referring to?". Apparently Atari wasn’t in a laughing mood, and they went through with the lawsuit. In the end Atari ended up losing the case and Activision went on to become the most successful of the 2600 third party companies.
Although Activision never made a game out of this demo it didn't go completely to waste. The sunset was later used in the background of Barnstorming.
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It's now a $3 troll
Don't the technically have til midnight? Also, maybe they're taking the week off? I dunno, it just seems premature.
" source: http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=2701Oh my god this is amazing.
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As the name implies the Venetian Blinds demo isn't a game, but a demo that simulates a pair of Venetian blinds! The joystick can be used to raise and lower the blinds by pushing up or down. When the blinds are raised a nicely done sunset is visible out the window.
The story behind the Venetian Blind demo is rather interesting. As most people know, Activision was founded by several ex-Atari employees who had left due to Atari's policies on programmer recognition (or the lack thereof). One of these employees was Bob Whitehead, creator of the "Venetian Blinds" technique, which was first used in Atari's Video Chess to display eight objects in a row instead of the normal six. Even though Activision had never used the Venetian Blinds technique in any of their games, that didn't stop Atari from threatening to sue Activision for "stealing" the technique along with other various proprietary information.
Since Activision knew that they hadn't stolen anything from Atari, they decided to play a little joke on Atari. According to David Crane, when the Atari's lawyers questioned them about the "stolen" Venetian Blinds technique David showed them this demo and said "Is this what you guys are referring to?". Apparently Atari wasn’t in a laughing mood, and they went through with the lawsuit. In the end Atari ended up losing the case and Activision went on to become the most successful of the 2600 third party companies.
Although Activision never made a game out of this demo it didn't go completely to waste. The sunset was later used in the background of Barnstorming. " It's now a $3 troll "
" Don't the technically have til midnight? Also, maybe they're taking the week off? I dunno, it just seems premature. "They pack 13 stuff is available. It's post-mature now.
" @Sin4profit said:Jeff does, though." @GlenTennis: Venetian Blinds is not a shitty game...it's literally not a game at all...Yeah but you don't have to buy it. "
"You open the blinds, there's a window with a view of the sunset..."game"over...$3.
" @GlenTennis said:He doesn't HAVE to. He has no one to blame but himself." @Sin4profit said:Jeff does, though. "" @GlenTennis: Venetian Blinds is not a shitty game...it's literally not a game at all...Yeah but you don't have to buy it. "
"You open the blinds, there's a window with a view of the sunset..."game"over...$3.
" Wait, Venetian Blinds is an actual game? I have to beat this, at some point. "I look forward to it.
Actually, given that everybody's doing incredibly similar jokes on this, I'm probably gonna give it a pass. I like doing original stuff whenever possible, like how I avoided doing the same tired " why doesn't Peach put out" joke.
" @GlenTennis: Venetian Blinds is not a shitty game...it's literally not a game at all...Sounds like a better game than... your favorite game. HA!
"You open the blinds, there's a window with a view of the sunset..."game"over...$3.
Yeah, I suck. ):
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