Atari Flashback: "It's a time machine. You go back to your childhood and you play."
By Ryan Block 
posted September 8th 2004 8:11AM
posted September 8th 2004 8:11AM
Seems Atari is taking a lead from Namco, and has begun a serious
wave of retro-gaming re-releases. First they're going to be selling 85 games bundled as the Atari Anthology
for Xbox and PS2 for $20—not a bad price! (Shh! No one tell them about emulators!) But we're really amped on is the
Flashback, which is a 7800-style box with two joystiqs (pardon our spelling) and 20 integrated games—including an
unreleased title, Saboteur—for $45. Not the most killer deal by comparison, but either way they get the
+15 nostalgia points, and thus, props.
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Some friends of mine just bought me that Atari 10-in-1 games joystick for my birthday, and I love it. Pong! Breakout! Asteroids! Missile Command! Etc! I am drowning in early 80s nostalgia juice.
So...close! If only they'd added a cartridge slot, so those of us with collections (or those who'd like to play homebrew 2600/7800 releases on real hardware) could have a new, not-on-life-support system.
If they're going to be making a retro console, why model the joysticks after the 7800 instead of one of the most perfect designs ever, the original 2600 joystick? The 7800 joysticks were horrible (although better than the 5200's)...
This is an attack on a very active hobby community copyrights and trade marks on this material and the ROMs have been in a grey area. Read more at http://AtariAge.com . If you want to play these games buy an old system -- http://AtariAce.com .
I heard that soon AtariAge will be forced to remove all roms of games owned by Atari (even the Coleco roms), including the hacks. Screw Atari. I liked the Tramiel-era Atari better than the Infogrames-era Atari.
Flashing back: I just got the atari flashback unit and to my suprise this thing is TINY! It's one cute little piece of hardware, but thats all it is! The games have been modified, reprogramed for this unit because they do not play like the original ones. The joysicks are tiny and cute but again beware they too are sticky when it comes to movement. At the cost of $50.00 your better off buying Anthology then this system. Buy it only for collecters value.
Some friends of mine just bought me that Atari 10-in-1 games joystick for my birthday, and I love it. Pong! Breakout! Asteroids! Missile Command! Etc! I am drowning in early 80s nostalgia juice.
So...close! If only they'd added a cartridge slot, so those of us with collections (or those who'd like to play homebrew 2600/7800 releases on real hardware) could have a new, not-on-life-support system.
If they're going to be making a retro console, why model the joysticks after the 7800 instead of one of the most perfect designs ever, the original 2600 joystick? The 7800 joysticks were horrible (although better than the 5200's)...
This is an attack on a very active hobby community copyrights and trade marks on this material and the ROMs have been in a grey area. Read more at http://AtariAge.com . If you want to play these games buy an old system -- http://AtariAce.com .
I heard that soon AtariAge will be forced to remove all roms of games owned by Atari (even the Coleco roms), including the hacks. Screw Atari. I liked the Tramiel-era Atari better than the Infogrames-era Atari.
Flashing back: I just got the atari flashback unit and to my suprise this thing is TINY! It's one cute little piece of hardware, but thats all it is! The games have been modified, reprogramed for this unit because they do not play like the original ones. The joysicks are tiny and cute but again beware they too are sticky when it comes to movement. At the cost of $50.00 your better off buying Anthology then this system. Buy it only for collecters value.