User:Hmmfomtgal/3DS: New Technology?

3DS: New Technology?

OK.So everyone's excited about the 3DS coming out and stuff. It will have two camera's on the outside (to take 3D pictures) an analog stick in the top left corner,(In case you're hands hurt when you use the normal control pad, which they usually do) a 3D slider, (so you can choose to have your screen to be really 3D to not 3D at all)and to top it all off, a nice shiny finish.Everyone's itching to buy one.But wait.How would you like to know that this could have come out 10 years ago?Really. No lie. In 1979, Atari started creating the Atari Cosmos. They made a finished one and displayed it in 1981 to the New York Toy Fair. However, judges were critical to the toy because it was mearly basic LED with a holographic background.Still, it was advanced technology for it's time.I myself was drooling over it a couple days ago until I remembered that the 3DS was coming out. So anyway, Atari announced that it was coming out a few months later. It never did. By the end of the year, the boss of Atari decided that since they were running out of money, to cancel the whole thing. They had everything ready, flyers, games, the systems themselves, everything. So Atari took all of the circit boards out of the cosmos and left the rest of the stuff to rot. Only two whole cosmos were left, one was put in the Atari museum, and the other was given to a former Atari employe.(possibly the guy who thought up the Atari Cosmos.) So there you go. That was the game everyone wanted in the late 70's and early 80's. Let's hope that nintendo doesn't make the same mistake as atari did. Hmmfomtgal &lt;3 (talk) 01:45, 18 February 2011 (UTC)