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Atari Hotels

30 points by simonebrunozzi 4y ago

drewcoo 4y ago
I honestly expected "have you stayed Atari today?" to feature prominently.
gchokov 4y ago
I have no idea what this is...
- ArekDymalski 4y ago
  after reading most of the text i'm also unsure if it's a real hotel or something metaversish.
  - a012 4y ago
    It's a freaking hotel. Link from their media page: https://atarihotels.com/news/atari-announces-world-class-video-game-themed-atari-hotels-first-atari-hotel-to-begin-construction-in-phoenix-in-mid-2020/ https://atarihotels.com/news/atari-announces-world-class-vid...
    - the_third_wave 4y ago
      Seems they forgot to pay their hosting provider: This Account has been suspended. [Contact your hosting provider](webmaster@atarihotels.com) for more information. It is rather odd that the "hosting provider" link leads to webmaster@atarihotels.com - is this a web hotel instead of a brick-and-mortar one?
  - williamcotton 4y ago
    If you’re never going to go there anyways, what’s the difference?
  - theelous3 4y ago
    I'm guessing it's intentionally confusing to garner attention. It's for sure a VR space (spaces?) but they talk about "Restaurants and lounges that stimulate the senses." The only sense the restaurant will stimulate is sight and sound ofc, and zero people want to sit in a VR restaurant - but it's good marketing to put people through the ringer I suppose.
tonguetrainer 4y ago
Atari's branding is so epic and timeless, it'd be a shame to abandon it in the dustbin of the past. Glad they're doing something with it.
- flohofwoe 4y ago
  TBH, a dignified retirement would have been much better than a bunch of shady business clowns desparately slapping the Atari logo on everything they can get their hands on (and of course they also dabbled in crypto and NTFs: https://www.atarichain.com/ https://www.atarichain.com/, https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari%C2%AE-reveals-50-years-of-atari-nft-collaboration-with-artist-butcher-billy https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari%C2%AE-reveals-50-year...). Thanks, but no thanks. PS: this Atari Hotels stuff has been around for years. Did they actually start building one, or is it still just a 'vision' to milk investors?
  - _cenw 4y ago
    Reading Token Whitepapers is always a ride, but this one, oh dear... > Atari is going to cover this opportunity, as our first use case is a crypto-casino, offering players the possibility to gamble with crypto-currencies. Didn't even try to hide it. > Our industry has become more and more decentralized. A game development project might have its animation created in one place, game environments in another one, music in Canada, core development in Montréal or Los Angeles, and testing in India. Montréal, in opposition to Canada. > One of the best examples that comes to my mind is the 2012 experiment by the One Laptop Per Child (OPLC) organization. OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing tablets to illiterate children in Ethiopian villages, leaving no instructions. I can't believe these savages managed to turn a tablet on! Yuck. > The value proposition of the Atari Token is to be the crypto-currency of reference for these blockchain-based platforms, otherwise known as “smart platforms”. Essentially, they could've taken a pitch for any other ERC-20 token and stripped out their unique selling point. They don't even sell it on "brand recognition". It's just "wow look at all that economic freedom and theoretical (unnamed) uses of smart contracts". The hot mess: https://atarichain.com/documents/atari-white-paper.pdf https://atarichain.com/documents/atari-white-paper.pdf
  - 4y ago
dynjo 4y ago
Now it all makes sense https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/8/15582580/atari-blade-runner-2049-trailer-worldbuilding https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/8/15582580/atari-blade-...
- SyzygistSix 4y ago
  It's rather pathetic that the article tells more about the venture than the website. If you can't design a website, how do you design a hotel?
gumboza 4y ago
I expect this to have the profitability and longevity of a Pyongyang mega hotel.
saboot 4y ago
Doesn't look like there's any updates in the past 9 months, assuming it's vaporware
tapoxi 4y ago
Atari is basically just a brand at this point that's been passed around to companies that don't know what to do with it. Their current incarnation is known for this aborted hotel idea (they couldn't secure funding), speaker hats, a poorly selling Linux based console called the VCS, and a crypto token.
- wronglebowski 4y ago
  The VCS was a good idea IMO. It just needed a few more hardware/software iterations.
  - CoastalCoder 4y ago
    I wonder if the Steam Deck is more or less that.
- deleted 4y ago
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sbarre 4y ago
I expected to at least find out where the hotels are?
- yucky 4y ago
  "The first of the Atari Hotels is planned to break ground in 2020 in Phoenix, AZ" So, nowhere.
joezydeco 4y ago
Needs less Blade Runner and more Pong: https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/12/04/what-if-ataris-pong-was-a-sci-fi-movie/ https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/12/04/what-if-ataris-pong-was...
mindcrash 4y ago
Account suspended...

Atari Hotels

drewcoo 4y ago

I honestly expected "have you stayed Atari today?" to feature prominently.

gchokov 4y ago

I have no idea what this is...

ArekDymalski 4y ago
after reading most of the text i'm also unsure if it's a real hotel or something metaversish.
- a012 4y ago
  It's a freaking hotel. Link from their media page: https://atarihotels.com/news/atari-announces-world-class-video-game-themed-atari-hotels-first-atari-hotel-to-begin-construction-in-phoenix-in-mid-2020/ https://atarihotels.com/news/atari-announces-world-class-vid...
  - the_third_wave 4y ago
    Seems they forgot to pay their hosting provider: This Account has been suspended. [Contact your hosting provider](webmaster@atarihotels.com) for more information. It is rather odd that the "hosting provider" link leads to webmaster@atarihotels.com - is this a web hotel instead of a brick-and-mortar one?
- williamcotton 4y ago
  If you’re never going to go there anyways, what’s the difference?
- theelous3 4y ago
  I'm guessing it's intentionally confusing to garner attention. It's for sure a VR space (spaces?) but they talk about "Restaurants and lounges that stimulate the senses." The only sense the restaurant will stimulate is sight and sound ofc, and zero people want to sit in a VR restaurant - but it's good marketing to put people through the ringer I suppose.

tonguetrainer 4y ago

Atari's branding is so epic and timeless, it'd be a shame to abandon it in the dustbin of the past. Glad they're doing something with it.

flohofwoe 4y ago
TBH, a dignified retirement would have been much better than a bunch of shady business clowns desparately slapping the Atari logo on everything they can get their hands on (and of course they also dabbled in crypto and NTFs: https://www.atarichain.com/ https://www.atarichain.com/, https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari%C2%AE-reveals-50-years-of-atari-nft-collaboration-with-artist-butcher-billy https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari%C2%AE-reveals-50-year...). Thanks, but no thanks. PS: this Atari Hotels stuff has been around for years. Did they actually start building one, or is it still just a 'vision' to milk investors?
- _cenw 4y ago
  Reading Token Whitepapers is always a ride, but this one, oh dear... > Atari is going to cover this opportunity, as our first use case is a crypto-casino, offering players the possibility to gamble with crypto-currencies. Didn't even try to hide it. > Our industry has become more and more decentralized. A game development project might have its animation created in one place, game environments in another one, music in Canada, core development in Montréal or Los Angeles, and testing in India. Montréal, in opposition to Canada. > One of the best examples that comes to my mind is the 2012 experiment by the One Laptop Per Child (OPLC) organization. OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing tablets to illiterate children in Ethiopian villages, leaving no instructions. I can't believe these savages managed to turn a tablet on! Yuck. > The value proposition of the Atari Token is to be the crypto-currency of reference for these blockchain-based platforms, otherwise known as “smart platforms”. Essentially, they could've taken a pitch for any other ERC-20 token and stripped out their unique selling point. They don't even sell it on "brand recognition". It's just "wow look at all that economic freedom and theoretical (unnamed) uses of smart contracts". The hot mess: https://atarichain.com/documents/atari-white-paper.pdf https://atarichain.com/documents/atari-white-paper.pdf
- 4y ago

dynjo 4y ago

Now it all makes sense https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/8/15582580/atari-blade-runner-2049-trailer-worldbuilding https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/8/15582580/atari-blade-...

SyzygistSix 4y ago
It's rather pathetic that the article tells more about the venture than the website. If you can't design a website, how do you design a hotel?

gumboza 4y ago

I expect this to have the profitability and longevity of a Pyongyang mega hotel.

saboot 4y ago

Doesn't look like there's any updates in the past 9 months, assuming it's vaporware

tapoxi 4y ago

Atari is basically just a brand at this point that's been passed around to companies that don't know what to do with it. Their current incarnation is known for this aborted hotel idea (they couldn't secure funding), speaker hats, a poorly selling Linux based console called the VCS, and a crypto token.

wronglebowski 4y ago
The VCS was a good idea IMO. It just needed a few more hardware/software iterations.
- CoastalCoder 4y ago
  I wonder if the Steam Deck is more or less that.
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]

sbarre 4y ago

I expected to at least find out where the hotels are?

yucky 4y ago
"The first of the Atari Hotels is planned to break ground in 2020 in Phoenix, AZ" So, nowhere.

joezydeco 4y ago

Needs less Blade Runner and more Pong: https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/12/04/what-if-ataris-pong-was-a-sci-fi-movie/ https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/12/04/what-if-ataris-pong-was...

mindcrash 4y ago

Account suspended...