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fozzie on 02/01/2018 - 20:29 catch.com.au (398 clicks)
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Get your fix of classic retro gaming with the Atari Flashback 8 Console! With a whopping 105 enhanced classic and new games built right into the unit, you can get into all your nostalgic favourites, including Space Invaders, Frogger, Centipede, and many more! Plus, with 2 wired joystick controllers, you and your buddies will never run short of retro fun!

Features:

Atari consoles
Model: Flashback 8 Console | AR3620
Colour: Black
Pack contents:
Atari Flashback 8 Console
2 x Wired controllers
AC power adaptor
Instruction manual
Pre-installed software: 105 new & classic Atari games
Region code: N/A
Ports:
AC adaptor jack
AV cable slot
Controllers: 2 x wired controllers
Comes in original packaging - ready for gift giving!
Unit Dimensions (cm, approx): 15 x 22.7 x 6 (L x W x D)
Recommended for ages: 3 years and up
Country of origin: USA
Protected by 12 MONTH WARRANTY

Gaming Atari Game Console

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  • [Deactivated] on 02/01/2018 - 20:35

    Where's the bargain?

    • silverrat23 on 02/01/2018 - 21:07

      The RRP is $99.95, a $24 saving.

  • adamwf on 02/01/2018 - 20:44
    +2

    Unfortunately the quality of these are terrible.

  • liquornoodlescabbage on 02/01/2018 - 20:45

    Anything a raspberry pi can't do without a case and controllers?

    • thelastnoob on 02/01/2018 - 20:50

      with raspberry pi you need to own the original cartridges to play the roms

      • liquornoodlescabbage on 02/01/2018 - 20:52
        +4

        Good point, I forget too easily that just downloading the rom for an old game is a tad against the law.

      • Diji1 on 02/01/2018 - 21:38
        -3

        Pretty sure you don't.

        • bargaino on 02/01/2018 - 21:41
          +1

          I think he was being sarcastic :-)

    • [Deactivated] on 02/01/2018 - 20:51

      One is an officially licensed product, the other is a knock off. bit of a silly comparison.

      • Cyphar on 02/01/2018 - 21:12
        +1

        You're right. It's obscene that the knock off can emulate the games better then the licenced product, isn't it?

        • [Deactivated] on 02/01/2018 - 21:17
          +5

          One is delivering an aesthetic, the other isn't.
          One involves paying the rights holders for the product, the other doesn't.

          Raspberry Pi's give a better environment than any system because they don't need to operate in conjunction with all the limitations that are involved when a hundred different rights owners, with IP that is 20-30 years old.

          Raspberry pi's outperform the mini snes and mini nes too. You don't see these stupid comments there, then again maybe you do, I generally don't read them.

        • Diji1 on 02/01/2018 - 21:39

          @Cubist: >Raspberry pi's outperform the mini snes and mini nes too

          No they don't.

        • [Deactivated] on 02/01/2018 - 21:45

          @Diji1:

          What's the rom cap on a mini snes compared to a pi?
          What's the compatibility ratio of the NTSC romset on a mini snes?
          How does the Mini snes cope with PAL Exclusives?
          How many seperate consoles can a mini snes handle compared to a raspberry pi?

        • ninetyNineCents on 02/01/2018 - 22:06

          @Cubist:

          Actually most of these games are probably in the public domain, its been close to 40 years for many of them.

        • ninetyNineCents on 02/01/2018 - 22:07

          @Diji1:

          They probably all have ARM9s on a SOC. Theres very little difference hardware wise. The biggest difference is probably the controllers and button colours.

        • Garagesale on 02/01/2018 - 22:33

          @Cubist:
          thats not outperforming thats more range and flexibility.
          but still worth knowing.
          in my experience with previous flashbacks they are shoddily put together and controllers are poor quality.
          i think the newer ones with wireless controllers are even worse.

          rather than rasberry pi lets all buy original atari 2600s and the carts.
          pricey now tho

        • ajd4096 on 02/01/2018 - 23:08
          +2

          @ninetyNineCents:
          Uh, that's not how it works.

        • ajd4096 on 02/01/2018 - 23:13

          @Cubist:
          It takes much more than a pi to accurately emulate an SNES.
          https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-…

          It's a safe bet that even the officially licensed emulator is not completely accurate.

        • ninetyNineCents on 02/01/2018 - 23:19

          @ajd4096:

          oh well i guess you must be right especially after the avalanche of supporting details.

        • [Deactivated] on 02/01/2018 - 23:27
          +1

          @ninetyNineCents:

          Original Nintendo games are not even close to being public domain. I am not sure where you got that information from. Mickey Mouse has been around since 1928 and is not public domain.

        • [Deactivated] on 02/01/2018 - 23:29

          @Garagesale: Atari 2600 is not a pricey console for the most part, unless you are talking about ultra low print US Games from third party developers. Atari cart collecting is probably the cheapest system to collect for with most carts going for below $5 loose.

        • ninetyNineCents on 02/01/2018 - 23:30

          @Cubist:

          Different media have different limits on copyright times.

          Anyway no where on the box does it say the games are licensed. For starters many of the publishing companies for these games no longer exist. THis is probably a chinese company that made their own 2600 lookalike plastic housing and compiled roms and are no selling it.

          Lastly, if you goto atari.com theres no mention of this product at all.

          Its pretty obvious this is a chinese fake as i mentioned…

        • [Deactivated] on 02/01/2018 - 23:55

          @ninetyNineCents:

          Those games are licensed. Publishers get bought, and the copyright transfers to the new company.

          This is not a chinese fake, this is an official product by the people who now own the Atari trademark. Go ask Jay Jays what happens when you start printing out Atari logos and selling them for profit.

        • ninetyNineCents on 03/01/2018 - 08:04

          @Cubist:

          So why isnt it mentioned atari.com ?

          The box itself doesnt mention these games are licensed.

          It also says country of origin is "America" which itself has several mistakes. It should read "USA", ive never seen any "real" american product say made made in America. Secondly electronic stuff like this is never made in USA its always china.

        • ninetyNineCents on 03/01/2018 - 08:05

          @Cubist:

          Publishers get bought, and the copyright transfers to the new company.

          Most just went bankrupt and disappeared. There are many similar examples of C64 publishers that simply dont exist. Theres no value in buying a publisher that has "old" 2600 games, back in the 80s when they died, nobody would buy them thinking they have potential in a nostalgic market 30 years later.

        • garage sale on 03/01/2018 - 09:18
          +1

          some people aren’t tech savvy, they just want to plug it in and it works …..

        • [Deactivated] on 03/01/2018 - 13:16

          @ninetyNineCents:

          IPs carry value, regardless if currently selling games or not.

          The Atari Flashback series is a join venture between Atari and AT Games (The same group who does the neverending supply of licensed megadrive clones) according to Atari's own website: https://atari.com/news/atari-and-atgames-collaborate-upcomin…

          Not sure if you are trolling or just genuinely ignorant at this point. Either way it's a waste of my time now.

        • ninetyNineCents on 03/01/2018 - 17:28
          -1

          @Cubist:

          IPs carry value, regardless if currently selling games or not.

          Dont change the subject, dont introduce a red herring.

          The Atari Flashback series is a join venture between Atari and AT Games (The same group who does the neverending supply of licensed megadrive clones) according to Atari's own website: https://atari.com/news/atari-and-atgames-collaborate-upcomin..

          Thanx i didnt spot this.

          Not sure if you are trolling or just genuinely ignorant at this point. Either way it's a waste of my time now.

          Well you should have just shared the url you just did instead of demanding everyone "accept" your pov. Evidence is the only proof..

        • [Deactivated] on 03/01/2018 - 17:29

          @ninetyNineCents:

          Going to go with trolling.

        • ninetyNineCents on 03/01/2018 - 17:38

          @Cubist:

          WTF, im not trolling, asking someone to provide evidence for what they claim is not trolling.

          This is not the middle ages, where people accept anything just because someone tells them too, on pain of death.

          Its sad you think asking for evidence is trolling…

  • lostn on 02/01/2018 - 21:30

    Waiting for a PS1 or PS2 mini.

    Or hey, I'd totally buy a Dreamcast mini.

    • Mrbean007 on 02/01/2018 - 22:13

      Waiting on the N64 hopefully they make one. :/

      • lostn on 02/01/2018 - 23:29

        They will. But it won't be cheap, or it won't have near as many games included.

        And because it's a Nintendo product, you can expect not enough stock to be made and for it to be scalped on ebay.

    • ausbob71 on 03/01/2018 - 06:36

      Dreamcast mini https://youtu.be/XHBCR5xtrtA

      • lostn on 03/01/2018 - 16:14

        Looked really cool until I saw the gameplay footage. It was choppy. Sonic 3D is meant to be 60 fps. Also it was glitching.

  • Sage on 02/01/2018 - 21:46

    Better if it had HDMI.

    • lostn on 02/01/2018 - 23:30

      What does it use? RF?

      • fozzie on 02/01/2018 - 23:40
        +1

        Av

        • lostn on 02/01/2018 - 23:43
          -2

          What is that exactly? Everything is A/V.

          Composite? The 3 RCA yellow, white, red cable? Heh, that didn't exist in the Atari's days. Not even going for retro accuracy.

        • [Deactivated] on 03/01/2018 - 00:07

          A/V generally refers to composite. Don't be pedantic. If you want to be pedantic, should note that RCA did exist in Atari's days, the Atari 2600 did not use it by default.

          What on earth makes you think this was going for retro accuracy? It's a 70 in 1 console.

        • lostn on 03/01/2018 - 16:17

          @Cubist: If you're not going for retro accuracy, may as well use HDMI. I can't think of any other reason why it wouldn't use HDMI, outside of retro accuracy. Who uses composite in this day and age? Why would you go and pick the worst video input available, which has color bleed and looks fuzzy and unclean?

          Modern TVs have only one composite port and the audio is being shared with component.

          A/V stands for audiovisual. That's everything that the TV can input. Composite, S-video, SCART, Component, etc.

          I've never seen it refer to Composite.

          Definition of: A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and speakers. The term originally meant "audio/visual." See also antivirus.

          Composite was not common on TVs in the 80s, and certainly not on consoles.

          Audiovisual (AV) means possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations,[1] films, television programs, church services and live theater productions.

          Audiovisual service providers frequently offer web streaming, video conferencing and live broadcast services.[2]

          Computer-based audiovisual equipment is often used in education, with many schools and universities installing projection equipment and using interactive whiteboard technology.

          Another audiovisual expression is the visual presentation of sound (visual music).

        • [Deactivated] on 03/01/2018 - 17:29

          @lostn:

          If you've never seen composite referred to as A/V, it's really odd that you instantly honed in that he meant composite and not component, s-video, or SCART. I've heard plenty of people outside of retro gaming elitists use A/V to describe composite cables, because they used the A/V button to access their first composite based system.

          Regarding usage, most likely due to an excess of composite parts not being used that they throw out in all kinds of cheaply made electronics. Probably still cheaper to manufacture and install composite outputs and bundle with composite cables, than HDMI outputs with an HDMI cable.

          Composite was used by Atari. What about the Jaguar? You incorrectly stated that composite was not used during Atari's days, seemingly ignoring that the 2600 was still on shelves up until 1992. What you should have said was that a composite was not used in the Atari 2600. I knew what you meant though, so I didn't needlessly correct your technically inaccurate statement.

        • lostn on 03/01/2018 - 19:17

          @Cubist:

          If you've never seen composite referred to as A/V, it's really odd that you instantly honed in that he meant composite and not component, s-video, or SCART.

          There's nothing odd about it. It's the lowest form of A/V available, and that's what I assumed it would use. No one in my circles called it A/V. We called it composite. I can forsee a time when Composite was all that was available on a TV, and the only thing that counted as A/V so your mother or grandmother might have called it that. But it wasn't the first form of AV and wasn't common until the 90s. A $3000 TV I bought in the 90s which was considered big in that era did not have composite. It was still RF. Which is what my NES, Master System and Mega Drive used. I presume a SNES would have used the same.

          I've heard plenty of people outside of retro gaming elitists use A/V to describe composite cables, because they used the A/V button to access their first composite based system.

          I've never known such people myself, but being 'elitist' I guess I only dealt with people who knew what they were talking about. Pressing the AV button makes sense, but it isn't a very useful term to describe an input. I don't know if it would still make sense to call it AV now, since the same button will cycle through your HDMI, Component, and USB inputs also, and they'd all be under AV. I can concede to you people who didn't know better called it AV (I didn't know these people myself but I'll take your word that they exist). But it doesn't make sense to me for people to still be using it now becuase it doesn't differentiate composite from other forms of AV.

          Composite was used by Atari.

          The 2600?

          EDIT: Oh I get it, you're being word for word literal, or pedantic.

          What about the Jaguar? You incorrectly stated that composite was not used during Atari's days, seemingly ignoring that the 2600 was still on shelves up until 1992.

          When I said "Atari's days", I was referring to the 2600, 5200, 7800. I actually forgot all about the Jaguar. That system was a non-starter and Atari themselves would have wanted to forget about it. Everyone has a device we pretend didn't exist because they may as well not have (for Nintendo it was the Virtual Boy). I didn't follow the console scene in the mid 90's because I became a PC guy. Did the Jaguar release in Australia? If you want to get pedantic, "Atari's Days" lasted until the 2000s. They published Neverwinter Nights by Bioware. It isn't what I meant though. Their days of console relevance though, was when their consoles (that history will be kind to — so no Jaguar) released, which was the 80s.

          Anyway, that was a long digression. If this thing is going to use Composite in 2017/18 I think it's going to bomb. HDMI is not expensive. If it's using Composite, it will run at 480i or 576i for PAL. That is going to look like hot garbage on a modern TV unless you still have a CRT. There will be color bleed, and the edges will pixels moving along the edges. The NES mini at least cleaned up the image.

        • [Deactivated] on 03/01/2018 - 19:22

          @lostn:

          Whoosh.

    • dissin on 03/01/2018 - 08:44

      There is a GOLD premium version with HDMI 720p and wireless controllers. Priced higher too

  • Trishool on 03/01/2018 - 00:14

    I'm just impressed it has Pitfall in the list of games.

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