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Atari Flashback on USAToday
NoOne=NBA=:
Space Shuttle is still a technical marvel in my book.
I can't believe they did that much, with that little.
Stingray:
There are too many Atari 2600 games that I enjoy to even bother trying to list them. Suffice to say that my 2600 is constanly hooked up in my game room, and gets plenty of play time.
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TheBrokentoken:
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on September 23, 2005, 03:41:35 pm ---Space Shuttle is still a technical marvel in my book.
I can't believe they did that much, with that little.
--- End quote ---
That is so very true. It's hard to believe that the same console that runs 'combat' also runs Space Shuttle. Just goes to show. I still remember the first time I saw Space Shuttle - I was blown away - not so much w/ the graphics but with the detail of the simulation for the time period.
I still love the 2600. Superman, Adventure and Yar's Revenge were mentiond as being great games, and I totally agree. I also loved River Raid, Keystone Kapers amd Enduro. Activision really stretched the platform.
rugby1:
River Raid is one of my all time favorite games (along with Cyberball 2072)!!!!!! ;D
Found a list of the games that are built in:
The full listing (in alphabetical groupings) of the 40 games to be included in the system:
3D Tic-Tac-Toe
Adventure, Adventure II, Aquaventure, Arcade Asteroids, Arcade Pong, Asteroids Deluxe, Atari Climber
Caverns Of Mars, Centipede, Combat, Combat 2
Dodge'm
Fatal Run, Frog Pond
Hangman, Haunted House, Human Cannonball
Lunar Lander
Maze Craze, Millipede, Missile Command
Off the Wall, Outlaw
Pitfall
Quadrun
Radar Lock, Return To Haunted House, River Raid
Saboteur, Save Mary, Secret Quest, Space Duel, Space War
Thrust
Video Checkers, Video Chess
Wizard
Yars' Return, Yars' Revenge
Of the 40 listed games, 7 are complete new games! As if that wasn't enough, another 7 are unreleased/prototype games. 2 more (River Raid and Pitfall!) have been licensed from Activision, another first.
crsdawg:
this console has lots of hacking potential. it has the new atari on a chip inside, instead of the nes on a chip with ported games like the original flashback had (and just about every tv game system). they also incorporated solder pads for a cartridge connector onto the pcb. there's a guide to add the cartidge port here. once done this thing will work just as an original system only with better picture quality.
as for the atari 2600 joystick design. after spending a good part of my youth with a cx40 in my hands, i have a hard time playing vcs games with anything different. it's all about personal taste, just because you don't like the feel of them doesn't make it a bad controller.