alex_79 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 You can buy one here: http://www.creativemindinteractive.com/prod/922/Atari_Flashback_3 It looks like oyu can only buy from that website if you are a company? For European customers there is this: http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/games/atari-flashback-3/10376114.html?affil=awin&awc=1202_1307538224_cfe792b1e5477333486d35010a74158d and this: http://www.zavvi.com/games/atari-flashback-3/10376114.html The item is not available yet, but I was curious and I placed an order on the second site (12.45 EUR including shipping to Italy). I wonder if it's in PAL format... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland p Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Thanks, At that price, I just placed an order too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwane413 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Although the picture of the box on the European pages says 60 games, the description and list only have 50. The games are also different. The 21 games on the European website that aren't on digthatbox.com (I believe all these games are on the FB2 except the ones in red): Adventure II Aquaventure Asteroids Deluxe Atari Climber Caverns of Mars Frog Pond Lunar Lander Major Havoc Pitfall! Planet Smashers Pong Red Baron Return to Haunted House River Raid Saboteur Secret Quest Space Duel Tempest Video Checkers Wizard Yars' Return The 31 games on digthatbox.com that aren't on the European website: Air Sea Battle Atari Video Cube Backgamming Basic Programming Basketball Bowling Breakout Canyon Bomber Casino Championship Soccer Circus Atari Double Dunk Flag Caputre Football Fun with Numbers Golf Grand Prix Home Run Miniature Golf Night Driver Real Sports Baseball Real Sports Basketball Real Sports Boxing Real Sports Football Real Sports Soccer Real Sports Tennis Real Sports Volley Ball Sea Quest Slot Machine Slot Racers Super Breakout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwane413 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I don't want a counterfeit FB3.... at least I don't want to support the counterfeiters by buying one new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskar42 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 maybe if we buy a fake one - atari will see that there is demand for a real one...... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I wish I could order one before they're taken off, but who knows if they even exist. A SD card port sounds like an amazing idea to me, but what could you do with save feature? How would it even work? Same, I'm just worried they'll take my money and run. Sounds like a great product though. I wonder why the PAL version is so much cheaper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 (edited) Just got word from Atari, seems it is not a hoax, apparently they had someone do it... kind of a shame since its just a console and not the portable unit I showed them at a demonstration meeting last year that had joystick ports on it, sd card slot and a desktop "itunes-like" download/install app... Lets see what these other guys bring to the table, but I think my portable design would've been the better approach, then a static PnP console... I think people are tired of them and the portable was the better way to go, IMHO.... Edited June 8, 2011 by Curt Vendel 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 maybe if we buy a fake one - atari will see that there is demand for a real one...... That's how I see it. A rock & a hard place. 1. The vendor we want to see release a Flashback 3...hasn't. Reasons? Doesn't matter. 2. Some counterfeit vendor makes a "Flashback 3" that may or may not have features we desire(SD card), and hopefully way more games. But we're not supposed to buy it since it's not from the almighty Atari overlords. But, but, it's what we wanted! Looks like my off-color post I made a while back where I said maybe some Chinese knockoff vendor(who probably has churned out 200 Famiclones as I type this) will make what we want might have actually happened. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phredreeke Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 So this is "genuine" 2600 hardware and not just another system emulating the 2600? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Good to hear it's an official product. The FB2 portable would have been great but this is still pretty cool. Just glad they got something out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Rogue Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 So this is "genuine" 2600 hardware and not just another system emulating the 2600? No, it is not using our 2600-on-a-chip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseboy Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Just got word from Atari, seems it is not a hoax, apparently they had someone do it... kind of a shame since its just a console and not the portable unit I showed them at a demonstration meeting last year that had joystick ports on it, sd card slot and a desktop "itunes-like" download/install app... Lets see what these other guys bring to the table, but I think my portable design would've been the better approach, then a static PnP console... I think people are tired of them and the portable was the better way to go, IMHO.... Well that sucks Curt. Sorry to hear that. As far as the portable is concerned, I would think that screen would be way to small to play games on. Did you look into having different screen sizes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacManPlus Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I guess it's another NOAC then. *sigh* - They should have went with the portable. I'll pass on this and wait for something from Legacy, at least they do things the right way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I don't know any spec's on it, whether its real hw or running emulation on an ARM core or what... So this is "genuine" 2600 hardware and not just another system emulating the 2600? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The game list is VERY odd to say the least... Major Havoc and other arcade titles??? 7800 titles? It may be an NOAC in there, or if this is somehow through Pelican, it may be based off of their VG Pocket designs and is running a SPG260 or later and is just using games they are writing themselves, but they mention being able to play homebrew games like 2600 Halo through the SD slot, so again... all very conflicting and confusing indeed... I guess it's another NOAC then. *sigh* - They should have went with the portable. I'll pass on this and wait for something from Legacy, at least they do things the right way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The game list is VERY odd to say the least... Major Havoc and other arcade titles??? 7800 titles? It may be an NOAC in there, or if this is somehow through Pelican, it may be based off of their VG Pocket designs and is running a SPG260 or later and is just using games they are writing themselves, but they mention being able to play homebrew games like 2600 Halo through the SD slot, so again... all very conflicting and confusing indeed... I would think it's not a NOAC, maybe just a low power CPU running a software emulator of some type. I would think in quantity and re-using molds and whatever, they could get away quite cheap. After all, those handhelds with LCD screens can be had for dirt cheap and those do reasonable (if imperfect) jobs at emulating even MAME stuff. This could be the same thing, just without the cost of the LCD screen and keeping the emulation demands modest (though who knows about some of those non-Atari 2600 titles on there, if they indeed are on there). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I really doubt it's an NOAC running 2600 ROMs from an SD card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacManPlus Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I really doubt it's an NOAC running 2600 ROMs from an SD card. ... if that part is really true. I was doubting that, and the 'exclusive' titles could be ports (again). That's all I was getting at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckafka99 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I wonder how this SD card support is going to work. I can't imagine it would be 'load up any roms ya got and away you go'; wouldn't a company like Activision have something to say about that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Agreed, but again the information out there is conflicting and confusing... so until something more concrete comes out, we'll have to wait, it also talks about posting high scores to Atari, how that would happen, I dunno... sounds like a lot of miscommunications and speculations mixed in with what the real features are. The game list is VERY odd to say the least... Major Havoc and other arcade titles??? 7800 titles? It may be an NOAC in there, or if this is somehow through Pelican, it may be based off of their VG Pocket designs and is running a SPG260 or later and is just using games they are writing themselves, but they mention being able to play homebrew games like 2600 Halo through the SD slot, so again... all very conflicting and confusing indeed... I would think it's not a NOAC, maybe just a low power CPU running a software emulator of some type. I would think in quantity and re-using molds and whatever, they could get away quite cheap. After all, those handhelds with LCD screens can be had for dirt cheap and those do reasonable (if imperfect) jobs at emulating even MAME stuff. This could be the same thing, just without the cost of the LCD screen and keeping the emulation demands modest (though who knows about some of those non-Atari 2600 titles on there, if they indeed are on there). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+batari Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 It was more than just a box, I played the device at E3. The game menu was shifted halfway offscreen, but it did have a lot of games and I played Yars Revenge on it. The main thing that seemed suspicious to me was the entire menu system was different - no more categorizing games, just a number of pages of game titles in alphabetical order. Since E3 is still running, why don't you go back and snap some pics of the console itself and this menu in action? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I just noted that in the picture at the website linked in the first post you can barely see the console in the background. It looks like a FB2 with joystick ports on the front. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+batari Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Nice detective work! I'm still curious about the menu though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 So this wasn't an April Fool then :- http://www.atarijoystick.com/2011/03/atari-flashback-3-is-on-its-way.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algus Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Boo at the twist in this thread. Atari In Name Only approved a cheap knockoff with a couple extra things slammed into it? Such a shame since the Flashback 2 is such a good machine. Still if this is official than maybe it is wrong to judge it to soon. I guess we just have to wait and see what it is like. BTW Curt that Atari Flashback Portable looks AWESOME! A shame it wasn't approved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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