At Games Colecovision, Intellivision, 2600 Flashbacks Pre-order

[Greg2600]

Why does At Games only bother to stick a cartridge port on their Genesis system? I have no intention of buying their other Flashbacks until a port is added. Also, the lack of sd card support is also disappointing, to say the least.

Adding a cart port to the Atari, INTV, CV systems will raise the cost and potential failure liability. Beyond that, I heard over at AA that AtGames could change their mind on an SD slot for the "2015" edition of these, if the sales are good. Again, it's more cost, and their margin is probably not terrific to begin with. The other issue is that the license holders of the Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision brands may not want the specter of piracy hanging over their heads.

I also hope that they supply overlays for all the games they are including, but probably won't. I think many collectors will buy these because they look pretty darn cool.

[Jorpho]

I also hope that they supply overlays for all the games they are including, but probably won't.

Well, it does say "limited edition overlays" right there on the box.

I guess all three of these will probably use ARM CPUs?

[Leo_A]

If that's what they use on their Atari Flashbacks, it's a safe bet.

[Flashback2012]

I'll pick up one of those Colecovision units when they come out. I had high hopes for a minute until I realized they were just using the image of the original unit and not reproducing it. Who even owns the rights to Colecovision anymore?

[Greg2600]

Well, it does say "limited edition overlays" right there on the box.

I guess all three of these will probably use ARM CPUs?

I did confirm with someone in the know that "they also both include limited edition overlays for all of the games, even those that didn't originally have them." So that's good. The chip is "custom" with their own software emulation layer, he didn't know the exact type. It's not the Genesis on a Chip that they use for the Genesis clone.

I'll pick up one of those Colecovision units when they come out. I had high hopes for a minute until I realized they were just using the image of the original unit and not reproducing it. Who even owns the rights to Colecovision anymore?

A holding company called River West Brands has owned it for many years. They have been good to the community though, they allowed OpCode Games to brand his Super Game Module officially. He had been talking about a CV II as well for quite awhile.

[BlastProcessing402]

I kind of want that Intellivision one super bad for nostalgia reasons, but only if it includes most of the games I had as a kid. I know I could just emulate (and I have) but this has the freaking proper controllers. Odd as they are, it's weird playing intv games any other way.

I sort of want the Colecovision one too, because I never had one or ever got to play one at a friend's house (they all had Atari if anything in that era).

Atari, meh, I'm fine emulating that. Maybe if they came out with a 5200 one (with controllers that don't break by looking at them funny).

[Greg2600]

Supposedly there will be "surprises" in terms of the games they licensed. Obviously I would hope that some of the Imagic and Activision games are included on both, though they've been absent from the Atari's for awhile now. I've read that AtGames could expand into Amiga, C64, and Atari 8-bit in the future. But yes, a replaceable 5200 controller that self centers would be a God send! Ha ha ha.