Atari Flashback system - 9.99 at Strawberries

[Kejoriv]

Atari flashback system is on sale at Strawberry's for $9.99 after Mail in Rebate. Its on sale for 19.99 (originally 49.99) then a $10 mail in rebate.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. The ad is was in this Sunday's paper.

[jezt]

I paid fourty bucks for that peice of shit. Damn. I wish I would have known.

[Kejoriv]

I paid fourty bucks for that peice of shit. Damn. I wish I would have known.

What is bad about it? Ive never played it

[Yago]

They put the worse joysticks on it, the Atari 5200 crap sticks. Stupid...

[Wavelflack]

They look like 7800 "pro line" sticks to me.

[rick weis]

Atari flashback system is on sale at Strawberry's for $9.99 after Mail in Rebate. Its on sale for 19.99 (originally 49.99) then a $10 mail in rebate.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. The ad is was in this Sunday's paper.

Strawberry's??? are these stores only on the east coast? never heard of them...

Rick

[RetroYoungen]

Atari flashback system is on sale at Strawberry's for $9.99 after Mail in Rebate. Its on sale for 19.99 (originally 49.99) then a $10 mail in rebate.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. The ad is was in this Sunday's paper.

Strawberry's??? are these stores only on the east coast? never heard of them...

Rick

I was just wondering the same thing myself, I've never heard of Strawberry's before...

[RockyRaccoon]

Atari flashback system is on sale at Strawberry's for $9.99 after Mail in Rebate. Its on sale for 19.99 (originally 49.99) then a $10 mail in rebate.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. The ad is was in this Sunday's paper.

Strawberry's??? are these stores only on the east coast? never heard of them...

Rick

I was just wondering the same thing myself, I've never heard of Strawberry's before...

I do belive it's something only on the East Coast...we have about 10,000 of them around this area...you turn around...and LOOK! STARWBERRIES! ><

[InsaneDavid]

They put the worse joysticks on it, the Atari 5200 crap sticks. Stupid...

Obviously you haven't spent a good amount of time with the Atari 5200 controllers - you NEVER forget those suckers after they eat up so much of your life with frustration.


They look like 7800 "pro line" sticks to me.

Yup, in fact the Flashback unit looks to me modeled after a 7800. Haven't picked one of these up yet myself ($50 is crazy, it should have been $20 from the start). What would someone that already owns this say is the value you've gotten out of it?

(Please refrain from saying "it's a collectable new Atari looking console, that was the value" since I already understand that.) ;)

[Cryomancer]

Does those thigns even have a cart slot? I could see wanting one if it did, but if not that's pretty well a ripoff.

[InsaneDavid]

Does those thigns even have a cart slot? I could see wanting one if it did, but if not that's pretty well a ripoff.

Nope, they're solidstate one-make units just like the Jakks TV games series of all in one joystick systems.

[davidbrit2]

The Flashback uses the NES-on-a-chip hardware, and contains (shoddy) ports of the games. Everyone I've heard from says it's pretty much rubbish for gameplay. Hold out for the Flashback 2.0, which will allegedly feature real 2600 compatible hardware, and provisions for soldering in your own cartridge port, so I'm told.

[Kejoriv]

Strarberries is a chain of stores for cds, games, dvds. Pretty small store size. Usually I find the prices to be higher than most other electronic stores.

[kainemaxwell]

Strarberries is a chain of stores for cds, games, dvds. Pretty small store size. Usually I find the prices to be higher than most other electronic stores.

Funny, it's $14.99 at my FYE.

Actually TWEC is the parent company for FYE, Strawberry's, Coconuts and Saturday Matinee.

[Neil Koch]

What would someone that already owns this say is the value you've gotten out of it?

As for me, very little... the joysticks are WAY too small and I can't play for more than 10 minutes or so before my hands start cramping up.