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 1/29/2008 9:24 AM
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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.

Included games

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.

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 1/29/2008 4:20 PM
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The Flashback would be better if it had a few hundred games.

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 1/29/2008 8:05 PM
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Modified By Sheep  on 1/29/2008 8:06:28 PM

Not a bad deal for $20, though Gravitar has to be one of the worst games I've ever played. 

 
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 1/29/2008 8:49 PM
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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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HotBox At:11:25 PM

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NutMan At:10:58 PM

http/kotaku.com/5092337/kids-can-sit-on-sonic-for-a-full+body-sensory-experience

NutMan At:10:58 PM

Well actually I think the press release might be from the company that amde the chair, but its being released in america and the sega of america president made some comments about it already

Kevin J Baird At:10:35 PM

We do, but I didn't see this press release. It might be from the Japanese office, and we only get the American releases here.

NutMan At:9:39 PM

I meant to type "Do you get press releases from sega"

NutMan At:9:39 PM

did you get press releases from sega kevin? they sent out one just now that would be perfect for medispective to talk about. it mentions how now kids can sit on sonic(via a sonic game chair) for a "full body sensory experience"

Kevin J Baird At:7:43 PM

Yea, well the Gunds who own San Jose are Cleveland legends. We use to call the Quicken Loans Arena the Gund arena. They did make it impossible to ever get an NHL team here though.

Mooks21 At:4:10 PM

Yes San Jose