thamer@yacht.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mustafa Thamer) (01/05/90)
Now that Xmas is over and every kid around has a Nintendo GameBoy, I guess Atari can go ahead and release the relatively unknown Lynx. Couldn't they speed it up a little and get it out the month before Xmas ? I know they're not braindead over there ... Someone, somewhere is going to tell me that they have one, right ? -=- "Two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd haul that tanker. You wanna get out of here; you talk to me." Max - The Road Warrior
kens@atari.UUCP (Kenneth Soohoo) (01/06/90)
In article <75298@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Mustafa Thamer <thamer@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: > > Now that Xmas is over and every kid around has a Nintendo GameBoy, I guess >Atari can go ahead and release the relatively unknown Lynx. Couldn't >they speed it up a little and get it out the month before Xmas ? I know >they're not braindead over there ... > Someone, somewhere is going to tell me that they have one, right ? > Actually, Lynx(s) have been shipping for quite some time now, well before Christmas, to New York and Los Angeles. You could have called the Sears mail-order catalog and ordered one, if you don't live in those areas... Also, I hear that two Bay Area stores got a shipment apiece... -- Ken Soohoo {ames,imagen,portal}!atari!kens Atari (U.S.) Engineering >> The Opinions Expressed above are _MINE_, _NOT_ Atari's. <<
ins_bac@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Ajay Choudhri) (01/07/90)
In article <75298@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Mustafa Thamer <thamer@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: > Now that Xmas is over and every kid around has a Nintendo GameBoy, I guess >Atari can go ahead and release the relatively unknown Lynx. Couldn't >they speed it up a little and get it out the month before Xmas ? I know >they're not braindead over there ... > Someone, somewhere is going to tell me that they have one, right ? Ok I will, it did come out in time for Xmas day, NYC got it and 60% of the noise on Rec.games.video is about this GEM, supposedly LYNX's sold like hotcake everywhere because of coverage and commerical(*WOW*) In the metro area everyone should have seen Lynx commericals on TV, I know I have seen them more than once.I guess its good but Atari stock has been sliding for a while from it 52 week artifical high. > > >-=- > > "Two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd haul that tanker. > You wanna get out of here; you talk to me." Max - The Road Warrior ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Great Flick!! Ajay Choudhri Atari Enthusiast, Registered Resident Vidiot ins_bac@jhunix.UUCP ins_bac@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU ins_bac@jhunix.bitnet ..!uunet!mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!ins_bac . .
hideki@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (YOSHIDA Hideki) (01/08/90)
In article <75298@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> thamer@yacht.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mustafa Thamer) writes: > Now that Xmas is over and every kid around has a Nintendo GameBoy, I guess >Atari can go ahead and release the relatively unknown Lynx. Couldn't >they speed it up a little and get it out the month before Xmas ? I know >they're not braindead over there ... > Someone, somewhere is going to tell me that they have one, right ? I bought a Lynx in Tokyo last week. Though it is made in Japan, there are very few shops here that sell it --- all the children here buy Nintendo GameBoy. Besides, I have never seen an advertisement of Lynx. --- Hideki Yoshida Department of Information Science Faculty of Science The University of Tokyo hideki@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
pa1323@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Some call me...Tim) (01/10/90)
A friend and I each ordered Lynx's through the Sears catalog, and we both got them. About LA and New York distributing--the final word was that they were only to distribute in New York. A friend saw the commercials there, and he tells me they were quite impressive. Kitty World in San Jose also stocks the Lynx, though I hear they have sold out several shipments of 50 Lynx's... It wasn't quite Atari's fault that there weren't several million Lynx's shipped--the manufacturer of the LCD color screen was the bottleneck in production; I believe they made as many Lynx's as they could buy screens. In any case, the Lynx side by side with the Gameboy so outshines it that I think it will do well, regardless of the poor timing... I hope, anyway... The Lynx is a wonder of blitter and processor technology that outshines ANY other home video game...it deserves to live. (I can't expand much on that--non-disclosures prevent me-- suffice it to say I was at the Lynx developer's conference way back when and I know how it ticks...and it certainly ticks QUITE well...) Tim Mensch.
drp9500@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis) (01/10/90)
Atari's problem with the Lynx stemfrom Epyx going bottom up.... it kind of left Atari high and dry so only the part of Epyx that does the acutal manufacturing is still around. Still this delay it what caused the Lynx to miss christmas nationwide. As for availability, at home I get stations out on NYC on cable and have seen numerous adverts for the Lynx. It IS there! Almost all of the larger toy stores in NYC have them. 70,000 units were shipped to LA and NYC and Atari expects to ship in excess of 1,000,000 units in 1990.