While most people is looking forward to XBOX 360 and PS3, this is the one that makes the heart of most 30 years old geeks beat faster.
Atari Flashback 2.0
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A full 2600 on a chip! I can’t wait to mod this thing to add more game roms!
A few more games and this thing would be perfect
But hey, they have Yar’s Revenge, my all-time favorite Atari game
Their Pac-Man version was sloppy and flickery but I still loved it!!!
Well I’d pay twice the price they’re asking for this nice piece of nostalgia…looking forward to have it beside my PS2
Where’s the ColecoVision!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got my good old ATARI 800XL, it runs nicely my games… hmmm, my cartridges. The games I own on floppy format are unusable now, that’s why Ebay is nice buying cartrige, or, plugin an old PC runing linux and some emulators on my TV did the job too, it’s just less funny…
montezuma’s revenge on atari was the bomb!
ahh still love playing my atari…
my paddles dont work anymoe but boy those joysticks sure take a beating and keep on going, thrown them across the room more times than i care to remmeber
and yes YARS REVENGE ROCKS!
There was a game called “Decathlon” that was literally a joystick-killer, since you had to move the stick left-right on insane speeds to make the little guy run, jump etc.
All my friends lost their joysticks with that beast!!!!
Innovation = moving backwards in time to an era when games were simple fun, not a lifestyle.
Well, there’s not much innovation on re-releasing games 2 or 3 decades old, but I agree on the “keep it simple” argument, although this is different from innovation.
innovation in a practical and pragmatic sense does not always mean “brand new”. it can mean the “new old thing”.
introducing “simplicity” in an age of massive complexity may be “innovative” for the time as 20-30 years ago those games were “par” vis-a-vis complexity.
whether or not the violence-trained gamers of the present era want anything more than fancier and fancier violence and soft porn remains to be seen.
maybe nintendo will be successful in their idealistic quest to return simplicity, accessibility, and fun to modern gaming. or maybe not.
The ironic part is that the 2600 leed to the video game crash of the mid 1980s, there was so many space invaders pacman, break out, galaga ect. clones running around and becouse of the limited abilities of the 2600 and like systems, most of them looked neer the same. It got to ware people dint bother to buy yet another space invaders clone. The market fell out untill the nintendo generation when they could release same game with better grafix to get people to rebuy