I have long felt that privacy is dead and I have started to put together a 30+ part series on privacy is dead because it pops up everywhere, but this just takes the cake and eats it too.
Atari is:
- apparently in business – who knew?
- has Nolan Bushnell speaking for it (I have no idea what his level of involvement is)
- releasing some neat HTML5 code to make it easier to make games in javascript called the Atari Arcade SDK and CreateJS
https://www.atari.com/arcade/developers/
https://createjs.com/#!/CreateJS
and you can currently play these remakes of classic Atari games
(the technology is cool, the gameplay is like the programmers had no idea what was fun about the original games)
https://www.atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/atari-promo
Now, I’ve thought javascript was a crappy idea since forever and it used to run REALLY slow, but I guess everyone is all hopped up on it for all sorts of modern stuff and hopefully it is being made to run better and faster. Although my gmail still annoyingly crashes every once in a while.
I guess anything is better than flash.
Anyway, it seemed like it was useful to create an account on atari.com. First name, last name, and birthday are all required fields. OK fine. I expect that. But I didn’t expect them to PUBLISH that info. WTF???