10 years of Atari Vaxmail

I cant imagine any current day corporation that would ever have internal communication like that - it seems insane…

Well, this might be a bad example, but at Zynga each game group acted like all the others did not exist, even the groups working on the same title but for different platforms (web, mobile). It was disheartening

Here’s a forward looking fellow:

This brings up one of many problems with games of skill that
include monetary payoffs … As an example, consider a
multi-player space war type game where you win money by eliminating other
players and receiving what they have won so far. The house percentage
could be falling into the sun. What do you suppose would happen out in
the parking lot if you overheard the guy in the next console scream “I just
got a ship worth $10,000!” and you had just been about to return that
much to your home base before some turkey blew you out of the sky…

CIGGIES AND GAMES
ARE SORT OF THE SAME…
LITTLE SQUARE BOXES
THAT TEENIES GET HOOKED ON.

It’s a poem!