There are two Atari Flashbacks. This is the first one. Here's the Wikipedia run down on it.
The Atari Flashback was released in 2004. The console resembled an Atari 7800 in appearance, and came with a pair of controllers which resembled those of the Atari 7800 but were slightly smaller. The system had twenty games built-in, all originally developed by Atari for the 2600 and 7800 game systems. The games which originally required analog paddle controllers were made to work with the included joysticks.
It was designed by Atari veteran Curt Vendel, whose company Legacy Engineering Group designs other home video game and video arcade products. Atari gave Legacy Engineering ten weeks to design the product, produce its games, and ready it for the 2004 Winter holiday season. The Atari Flashback was based on "NES-on-a-chip" hardware, not resembling either of the Atari systems which the Flashback was supposed to represent. As a result, the games it contained were ports and differed in varying degrees from the original games, and therefore the Flashback was unpopular with some purists.
One game, Saboteur (originally designed by Howard Scott Warshaw), was advertised as "unreleased"; though never part of the Atari lineup, it was sold at the Philly Classic 5 convention in 2004.
Not a bad deal for $20, though Gravitar has to be one of the worst games I've ever played.
The second Flashback is MUCH better. It's also getting to be rather rare to find. I'm going to have to spend some money to own it which sucks. I should have bought it off the shelf, would have saved some moolah.
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segamanxero At: 2:27 PM
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segamanxero At: 1:24 AM
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segamanxero At: 12:11 AM
ya, i bought my R4 and CycloDS for homebrew. then i couldnt stop my self from downloading DS roms, then i bought a easy flash and now i pirate GBA roms too. just say no, it will turn you to the dark side....
Jedihillis At: 1:48 PM
Let the war begin..
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bigdog21 At: 2:21 AM
Shouldn't talk so negative about yourself man.
MR_COW At: 1:44 AM
Whoever buys something like a R4 for just homebrew is a fag
NutMan At: 10:08 PM
Kevin: the r4 is basically just ised to pirate ds games although it does have legit uses like running homebrew and emulators.