Console Videogames AT-Games Console Retrò Atari Flashback Portable (70 Giochi)

Going back to my child hood very good and easy too play

Unless I am mistaken this is very inferior to the discontinued more expensive model, because diagonals do not work on this. Games that do not need diagonals are fine, but Missile Command for instance is beyond a joke. If there is never going to be a firmware update, this is one to avoid compared to the more expensive one if you seriously want to play old games properly! So two stars, rather than 6/5 like the better one that is hard to get now. Disappointing!

Ok, but the build quality is not great. The one I received had a screen that was slightly higher on the left side than the right, so I ended up returning it for a refund.

A charger is missing from the box ?

Ich bin mit Atari und Colecovision aufgewachsen und konnte deshalb nicht an dieser Konsole vorbeigehen ;-) Klein, leicht, mit 70 Spielen, und sie kann mittels SD Card (was die "großen" Emulator-Nachbauten bis zur Version 9 vermissen ließen) noch weit mehr Spiele abspielen ;-) In den 80'ern hätte ich mir, passend zu meinem Walkman, eine tragbare 2600 gewünscht, aber da war die Technik halt noch nicht so weit (wer kennt noch das Vectrex :-) ?) Ein witziges Teil mit Retro-Grafik, erfrischend weit entfernt von den geleckten 3D Spielen der heutigen Zeit. Toll für ein Spielchen zwischendurch, auch nach gut 40 Jahren haben viele der Spiele nichts von ihrem Reiz verloren. Leider war kein Kabel zum Anschluss an ein TV dabei, aber das war mir vorher bekannt, deswegen volle 5 Sterne :-)

Todo 2600 en una consolita, me gusto mucho y le puedes poner cientos de juegos en una SD. Si eres de los fanaticos de videojuegos y quieres recordar estos juegos de hace casi 40 años no debes de perdertelo.

Super article. Adapté pour les petits enfants. Mon fils de 4ans est très content de sa Nintendo. Super pas de lumière bleue qui abime les yeux. Merci

Perfecto! Al tener la opción de poder incluir a través de su tarjeta todos los juegos existentes de Atari, la convierte en una portátil divertida...El único pero es que se echa de menos el mando original.

According to the multiverse theory, some believe there could exist parallel universes where the choices we could have made are played out in alternate realities. If true, then there could exist a reality where Atari didn’t spend $10,000 a month on psychic advisers, and instead put that money into R&D of a handheld portable gaming system after realizing the potential for such devices after the success of the Coleco mini-arcade tabletop series in 1981. Allow me to take you into this alternate reality. The success of the Atari 2600 was based on bringing arcade classics into the home for an affordable price, and four years in, it was doing better than ever in spite of strong competition from the new ColecoVision console. Engineers and programmers at Atari were well underway developing the next generation console, the 5200, but the smart business people running Atari noticed that Coleco’s new toy, the mini-arcade tabletop series, was doing quite well in spite of the severe limitations imposed by the limited display technology. They realized that the Atari 2600 and its cartridges could easily be miniaturized, and its low-resolution blocky graphics would translate well on a smaller screen. Since many of the classic titles featured a black and white mode, they wouldn’t need to bother with a colour display right away. The Sony FD-210 Watchman that came out in 1982 demonstrated this perfectly well in their labs, though the cost of the display would have made the handheld console prohibitively expensive. In 1983, the video game console market crashed as home computers took over. Atari realized an opportunity to re-invigorate the industry with the world’s first handheld console, and fortunately for them, the answer came from the Brown Boveri Research Centre in Sweden in the form of the new super-twisted nematic display. The Atari 2600 required a display of 192 x 160 pixels, but due to the blocky nature of the graphics, would play fine on a display resolution of only 160x144 pixels. Over the next year, an interface between this display and the portable Atari 2600 was developed, and introduced it to the public in 1985 for $199 with cute mini-cartridges priced at around $30 each, and an adapter for existing cartridges for $40. It took Nintendo until 1988 to come up with their own handheld gaming system, but by then, Atari was able to provide a portable 2600 with a full colour display. This won over developers and made the Atari Lynx the most popular handheld gaming console in 1989. In 2015, the Atari in this dimension released the Flashback to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the world’s first handheld video game system. Apparently, brilliant scientists at atGames were somehow able to tap into this alternate dimension to bring us our first sample of this brilliant handheld system, and this latest one with 70 games is the best one yet. The low-resolution graphics of the original 2600 do translate very well to the small screen, and those games that have a black and white mode will play in monochrome to provide a genuine experience of what it would have been like had this sort of thing existed in our dimension back in the day. For some reason, the Atari 2600 video games in that parallel dimension play at a lower pitch than those from our dimension, but this doesn’t really affect anything. Instead of a cartridge slot, this one in our dimension has an SD card slot and can access game ROM titles stored in a directory called “Games.” Due to technical differences that exist between our dimensions, there are a few game ROMs won’t play right or at all, but the vast majority do work fine. Obviously, two player games will not play properly on this, which is unfortunate; I don’t think it would be too difficult for AtGames to create a version of this console that would hook up to another one for great portable two player action on the go. My only gripe is the menu interface for selecting games. Visually, it’s very well done with box art for each game, but the menu navigation is a bit odd; moving left or right doesn’t take you to the left or right column, but rather to the next “Page” of games. Perhaps this is how people navigate menus in that parallel dimension. Another thing that would have been nice is to have instructions included in digital text form, as some of the games are unplayable without first reading instructions on how to play. The build quality is okay for a device at this price point (though a bit “Creaky” if you twist it from end to end), the display is adequate for what it needs to do, and the buttons and D-pad are responsive and well laid out. Sound is clear. There is an attachment on the left side for a lanyard, the power button and headphone jack are at the bottom, and the USB port, A/V output port, SD card, and volume are laid out across the top. This one has a battery compartment with a replaceable rechargeable battery. The size of this console is just right to bring along just about everywhere, and the battery is reported to have a 4-6 hour life. The packaging is all 100% recyclable, which is something I really appreciate. If you were a fan of the Atari 2600, or if you just want to see what it was like, this is a great product to have. It takes up very little space, and represents excellent value for its price.