MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Nov 30, 2024, 11:15:
Nostalgia marketing strikes again... hdmi version is cool, them reselling 40 year old games that are probably public domain for $28.. not so cool.

If they were selling them digitally I would 100% agree with you. This is a physical product though. Made of stuff that costs money to make, distribute, and deliver. They aren't taking them out of storage, they are being made today. If someone wants the cartridge specifically they pay the costs for those things. Its not 1981 so it isn't going to be 5 bucks. I think the 28 dollar price tag will prove to be too much, they will probably need to lower that to 20 tops, but I have paid 30 bucks for a specific cartridge on a specific system before, (Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! for NES back in 2006 off ebay) so I am sure there are plenty of other people that will do the same thing. Additionally, not all of those games are old, there are new games as well. (I am not sure why, but ok) Personally I think their pricing overall is about 25% too much for what they are selling but time will tell. 20 bucks is the new 10 bucks afterall...apparently.

Nostalgia marketing strikes again... hdmi version is cool, them reselling 40 year old games that are probably public domain for $28.. not so cool.

I will always feel the best thing about the Atari era was/is the box art. Damned fine feast for the eyes there.

If I still had my Atari 2600 game collection I would buy something like this. I use a Retron 5 for my sega/nintendo stuff. Thing is awesome and it's a lot more reliable/easy to use then trying to maintain the OG machines. Maybe next year I will double back and take a look, this isnt the time of year I like to spend $$$ on myself but I have been toying with rebuilding my childhood Atari game collection.

Harumph!

phinn wrote on Nov 29, 2024, 21:04:
Maybe because I'm a little older and my oldest memories is for WC2, Quake, and FF7, but who wants an Atari? I feel like console gaming was terrible until late 80s/early 90s for NES/SNES/Genesis.

You're not even close to "older".

Up until the first generation of consoles (though they were not called "consoles" back then but systems), any gaming you wanted to do had to be done in an arcade or, if you were one of the rare few, on a mainframe. Being able to play some or all of your favorite arcade games for free per play on a TV at home was wildly revolutionary for the time. Moreover, they were much, much less expensive than minicomputers of the time which made them accessible to far more people.

The 7800 was the last gasp of that first generation of American consoles/systems. Atari was basically tits up by 1984 so they didn't even design the 7800. General Computer Corporation did the design and stuck with a slightly modded version of the venerable 6502 as well as some of the tech from the 2600.

Without the 2600, 5200, and 7800, the NES and Genesis wouldn't have existed in the form you're conscious of. Largely because Atari, Coleco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments had long since paved the way for them.

And those early gaming systems? They were goddamned phenomenal compared to anything you could afford at the time. One system that could play multiple games at will? That was silicon black magic made real.

Maybe because I'm a little older and my oldest memories is for WC2, Quake, and FF7, but who wants an Atari? I feel like console gaming was terrible until late 80s/early 90s for NES/SNES/Genesis.

_Cory wrote on Nov 29, 2024, 12:55:
I didn't know that they sold a modern 7800 euro-pad. It's even compatible with original consoles. I might have to get one.

Ugh, not much good I can remember about the 7800. Mom got me one when all the kids were getting NES. Ugh.

I didn't know that they sold a modern 7800 euro-pad. It's even compatible with original consoles. I might have to get one.