Atari Flashback (New Hardware from Atari)
Check it out here.
Yeah, its only one of those plug and play devices but its an official one and comes with cool looking joystiks. Not to mention that it includes Adventure.
There's also an article about it and the new PS2 Atari Anthology here.
The new Anthology BTW is going to contain 85 games this time around.
wow that looks pretty neat, might have to pick on of them up.
BLAST AWAY AND GO GO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We already were discussing the Flashback in the Atari Anthology thread...
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41095
Oh hell, I didn't even see that.
sorry
But there are two more bits of interesting info that I just noticed from the above article.
The "Atari Anthology" disc will offer new twists on the games, too: "trippy mode," which renders the graphics in psychedelic colors, and "time warp" and "double speed," which can alter the pace of on-screen action.
Besides its array of classic Atari 2600 and 7800 titles, the Atari Flashback console will include one previously unreleased game: "Saboteur."
That reminds me, this little plug and play can be found for $19.99 now
These cartridges are dirty as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!
I heard the controllers didn't work to well, from what I've heard the controllers felt choppy.
They're way too small for me... I can only play for about 10 minutes before my hands cramp up. The selection of games isn't too hot either. A lot of them have been on other plug and play "systems", and others are just poor games.
The worst thing
The worst thing for me is there's no cart slot.
With all the new homebrews, they need a cart slot.
Plus the Activision/Imagic games.
Dude, they should have seriously put Kissinger and Nixon in their own reality/sit-com show. It would be like the odd couple.
Nixon: Is that chairman Mao on the phone?
Kissinger: Yes, but you can't speak to him, you're too drunk right now.
Re: The worst thing
Cartridge slots are just not going to happen. It would be a technical support nightmare with lots of average people (not collectors like us) calling up wondering why their 20 some year old cartridge won't work. And nobody wants to pay someone to say "just clean the cartridge contacts" or "that's not an Atari cartridge, that's for the Colecovision/Intellivision/etc."Originally Posted by kirin jensen
On the plus side, the new Flashback 2 is set up for people to hack in their own cartridge port. Just need to disable the menu chip and solder it in. I have an E3 review of the Flashback 2 up at cg.com here. I agree though, as a collector I didn't care for the original Flashback either (have a review up of that as well), especially the controllers. This time around though, they are using full reproduction Atari sticks (with new microswitches instead of the old plastic bubble contacts), and it will accept legacy controllers.
Wow. That 2.0 looks cool. I didn't realize that even existed. Thanks for the review link.
Nice review, lots of grammar errors though
Greg
What they SHOULD do is make an *actual* compact Atari 2600 that plays the old cartridges, or even a portable like:
http://www.classicgaming.com/vcsp/
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