Hey http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback/7800 atari is bringing out a flashback console. I'd rather get an original one from ebay or so. "If you don't have any new concepts just bring out all the old stuff in a new shiney design. " Ohh well.... those are my 2 cents
What does atari think we can do with this? Why don't they just make a system with all the games on it. Or a gamboy cart with all the games. Well, maybe not all (they do have to sell something later) but more that 10 or 20 games per cart. Do these types of retro things even sell? Everytime I go in the store I see a million of them and they never seem to go on discout bargain bin.
What a steaming pile of absolute DUNG. Why does Atari and others continue to force this ridiculous retro shite down our throtas.If I wanted t play these games,I would buy and atari 7800 with a cart slot for more games.The joke is these ridiculous tv games sets sell shit loads in gadget shops all over the uk.Utter pish.
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This is yet another one of atari's ideas for people to relive the good old days and help them pay off there £300m debt. There were usless when i worked for them, and they appear to be getting worse.
They sell those joysticks here from namco and atari with 6-9 games built in and they want 35 euro's for one of those things :angry You can buy an atari 2600 with a heap of games for half that ammount :smt009
the world of EBAY is alive and kicking, where exactly do these products fit in the market. A person can go on ebay and buy what they actualy had as a kid or spend the same amount and get less from the store. Does this marketing concept work? Who is buying them and how many are sold each year, I am really curious
I'm obviously not as offended by this as others. If it hard a cartridge slot I'd have no problem with it at all, except that personally I'd prefer an original (I certainly won't be buying this or any similar item). Other less picky people just want to relive what they had 20 years ago, and they want it to work, unlike the broken one in their cupboard. For those people it's fine. That's where these products fit into the market. The guys that buy these can't be bothered struggling with ancient hardware, don't want much room to be taken up by this stuff (all these reissues are tiny - this is the first I've seen not to have games+hardware inside the controller), and they certainly don't want to wait 2 weeks for their auction to finish and cheque to clear only be ripped off by some ebay scammer.
For me it'll only get interesting around the time Sega, Ninty, NEC, SNK and maybe even Sony start releasing stuff like this.. imagine a mini-AES with loads of good games built in or a Saturn with all the shmups, but in PSone format :smt030
I hope none of them ever release "flashback" consoles, Nintendo with their flashback games is bad enough. They shouldn't degrade themselves to Atari's level.
Sega have been doing it for a while in Brazil (MD/SMS with 20 games etc), although Megadrive/SMS isn't such a long flashback in Brazil, so I doubt they're considered retro (more like what you buy if you can't afford the extortionate prices for new hardware).
Alchy "That's where these products fit into the market. The guys that buy these can't be bothered struggling with ancient hardware, don't want much room to be taken up by this stuff (all these reissues are tiny - this is the first I've seen not to have games+hardware inside the controller), and they certainly don't want to wait 2 weeks for their auction to finish and cheque to clear only be ripped off by some ebay scammer." I would agree with that thinking, except theres no proof of worthwhile sales. My girlifriend and her brother fit into this category, but they both complain about the games. They don't want the ones they are selling. Every so often we will see one together in the store and she says: I'll wait until "such and such" a game comes out, then I will get one. The games she wants never come out, so who bought one of these systems in the first place? I think atari suits say stuff like that in a meeting, but it has no foundation in facts or sales. Also, few people I work with who are not into video games bought a real atari off ebay because they saw these in the store. The price and the game selection turned them off, so they got the real thing with exactly what they wanted for less.
You people do realize that the Atari that is releasing this "system" and all the other little things like it is not the same Atari from the 70s/80s. Infogrames bought the Atari name. The last thing the "real" Atari did was the Jag.
I know they got bought out, however I did not remember who bought the name. Thanks. Still the idea sucks and even people who aren't into games know it. Out of touch moms and dads must get them to show kids what thier parents played as children. Most people I know under 35 do ebay and most of the time pass on these and get the real thing.
