The Atari 2600+ has been introduced by both Atari and PLAION. The Atari 2600+ is a modern recreation of its 1980 counterpart coming packed with 10 of Atari’s most widely known games in their history ranging from Adventure and Missle Command. The all-new CX40+ Joystick Controller is also included with the Atari 2600+ offering a one-to-one recreation of the original 2600 controller to offer players nostalgia from the ‘70s and '80s, The Atari 2600+ is launching on November 17 for $129.99.
No thanks.
I have an original 2600,5200, and 7800. I’m from that era.
Atari games suck. They’re playable for ten minutes. Move the big pixelated blob left to right, then squeeze the one button. Rinse and repeat.
These are just emulated anyway.
The NES era is the first era that has some lasting games to it that aren’t just relics of their time.
Oh yeah. I have my original NES and a slew of games for it. My kids and I play a half dozen games on it every month or few weeks. This Atari thing is driven purely by some badly tinted nostalgia glasses. it’ll be purchased and played with once, then sit on a shelf forevermore once people realize exactly how crappy a 2600 game really is.
I started with an Atari console; I’m that old. I should be nostalgic for it but no, the NES is the start of games actually being worth playing decades later.
The Sega Master System had some great obscure games I’ve only watched reviews of recently, too.
Yeah they are not good. There are like 2 you could maybe fuck with for a little while but they aren’t even great
“packed” with 10 whole games huh?
Tbh I find something about single purpose built tech very endearing. It reminds me of late 20th century futurism (e.g. Ender’s game) where things like books were still individual objects, just digital/electronic, whereas the real books of the future (our present day books) are just files to be loaded onto a device, hundreds of which can be stored on the same one
Imagine spending all day at work daydreaming about leaving work to play video games and then finally coming home after a long day just to put on Adventure for Atari 2600
Is this an emulator or fgpa? Although it’s kinda cool, I’ve never been able to enjoy 2600 games. They were only enjoyable for short periods of time at best.
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It can play your old cartridge games with it.
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Using an expensive flashcart on an emulation box, to dump roms to the cart to be extracted and played as an emulated rom… Seems a little silly. Experience wise, the games would be no difference in experience than any run of the mill emulator you can sideload on a smart TV?
It’s still a neat shelf piece though.
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Nintendo does this shit and has for years.
