Atari is Releasing a New 2600

[Scoops]

Contemplating getting this, while not a must get, it's pretty cool and it would be awesome if it started a trend and Sony, Nintendo, or Sega made HD supported retro consoles.

[DrBackflipsHoffman]

that'll be $130 thanks

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

I’m tempted, just bought an Atari Jr earlier this year to replace my old light six that died years ago.

[Cyno]

$130 for 10 games that look and play like complete ass by 1993 standards, much less 2023 standards, sure is something.

[DiBiase is Good]

If it came with every 2600 game ever on it then it would be a more realistic price but 130 for ten games? Get tae f***.

[BorneAgain]

Honestly Atari 50, which is on modern consoles, has Lynx, 5200, & Jaguar games on top of the 2600 titles, and is a digital museum for the entire Atari brand?

Yeah that's kind of the better deal at $40 than $130 for ten games.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

This is the equivalent of Billy Corgan designing an "NWA" of video game consoles...
The name might pop the nostalgia crowd, but the end result is ass-cheeks with doo-doo streaks.

[KingPooper]

Can’t you get one at CVS for $25 and it plays 60 games…

Granted it’s trash but at least it’s not $130

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Uh, excuse me...

[Ultimo Gallos]

Pros
It plays most 2600 carts and most 7800 cats
HDMI

Cons
Price

I either got my old 2600 hooked up to a vcr that is hooked to my tv or I use my retron 77 to play 3600 stuff.

I get that most don't have the room to keep a nice sized CRT TV around. But really anything 16 bit and before it is just easier to hook up to the tv of it's era.

For those that must have it hooked to a HD TV you got plenty of consoles that can play the old carts. Retron 5 is nice. The NES/SNES/Genesis FPGA consoles are amazing. Pricey but amazing.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

ataris gonna atari

BUT WHY

just knuckle up and release a flashback platinum with every damn game on it

that wacky games company

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Aug 22, 2023 18:31:02 GMT -5 Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie said:

ataris gonna atari

BUT WHY

just knuckle up and release a flashback platinum with every damn game on it

that wacky games company

Atari doesn’t actually own a lot of the classic games people remember from the 2600, this being able to play carts makes it pretty appealing.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Aug 22, 2023 18:50:15 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

Aug 22, 2023 18:31:02 GMT -5 Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie said:

ataris gonna atari

BUT WHY

just knuckle up and release a flashback platinum with every damn game on it

that wacky games company

Atari doesn’t actually own a lot of the classic games people remember from the 2600, this being able to play carts makes it pretty appealing.

Yea the cart slot and being able to do 2600 adn 7800 is a good feature. Wish it was easy now to find the second Atari Flashback. That one was easy to hack and put a cart slot into. Then it could play close to 80% of the 2600 library off carts.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Most things people want to play on the 2600 have been made available cheaply to purchase on other platforms continually for the past 20 years now so I can't imagine the audience for this is pretty big, but that probably explains the pricetag, really. It's a niche product, for a small, loyal fanbase like the cartridge and arcade board reproductions they've done in recent years, and if that's where their business is these days, more power to them. Better this than the crypto scams they were sniffing around a few years back.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

after going through all of the atari 2600 stuff on atari 50, i'm good never seeing that console ever again

[tirtefaa]

10 games? Even the NES Classic had 30 games, and was of similar price.

And you know what? These things have existed before. I own the Atari Flashback 7, which looked almost identical to an Atari 2600, and it came with 101 games. And guess what? It costed like $30.

So what's the appeal here? Built to fit HD TVs...dude...it's an Atari!

[fg]

Aug 22, 2023 20:56:36 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

10 games? Even the NES Classic had 30 games, and was of similar price.

And you know what? These things have existed before. I own the Atari Flashback 7, which looked almost identical to an Atari 2600, and it came with 101 games. And guess what? It costed like $30.

So what's the appeal here? Built to fit HD TVs...dude...it's an Atari!

Atari in recent years has been a company for the most part has the reputation that it can’t do ANYTHING right.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Aug 22, 2023 20:56:36 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

10 games? Even the NES Classic had 30 games, and was of similar price.

And you know what? These things have existed before. I own the Atari Flashback 7, which looked almost identical to an Atari 2600, and it came with 101 games. And guess what? It costed like $30.

So what's the appeal here? Built to fit HD TVs...dude...it's an Atari!

The appeal is the ability to play legit 2600 and 7800 carts, much more so then the limited pack in games.

[tirtefaa]

Aug 22, 2023 22:26:59 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

The appeal is the ability to play legit 2600 and 7800 carts, much more so then the limited pack in games.

And there's retro systems that can fit that role that costs a fraction of the price. Yeah, it might be "official" but if I'm going to shell out that kind of money to play retro carts, then I'll just get a retro 2600.

[wildojinx]

At that price, the 10 in 1 cart had better consist of rare games like Air Raid, Chase the Chuckwagon, Atlantis II, and Red Sea Crossing.