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If this gets your imagination fired up ... You'll love this. https://www.geocaching.com/play Like Pokemon Go but without the battery suckage

This is supposedly on the way: http://polymega.com I'd just as soon use a computer for emulation, though -- especially if interested in spinning discs.

Counterpoint: Retron 77 only does one thing, and you have to use wired controllers.

One per person for the "true fans," shipped directly, would be nice. Leave it out of stores and deny it from scalpers hands.

I like the ink colors better in the left version. Is the paper quality the same? Seems things like this started with fancier printing and ended with cheap black and white manuals.

It's one of the little interstitial ditties in the arcade original, not the main tune that plays in the 2600 version. Here it is, cued up to match the song you posted: https://youtu.be/l9fO-YuWPSk?t=46s

If it were up Uranus you'd know

They never even got their story straight, which made it clear they had very little chance of developing and delivering anything. That's not how professional product development works -- or even a good Kickstarter.

Where the heck did that writer get "Every SEGA game ever made" out of any version of the Sega Forever announcement? Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but that's simply not going to happen. We should get a bunch, though.

I looked at the project page for the first time in a while -- it's more expensive than I remember and thicker/chunkier, too. I had remembered it being more like $400 (it's more than $600) and more like a 3DS than a brick. Yeah, the usual open-source stuff should run fine, but a person could get a very nice mainstream laptop for that kind of money. Maybe I'd feel more excited about it if netbooks weren't so cheap, ubiquitous, and capable. I have an HP Stream 11 I'm fond of as a dedicated retro toy, it cost me $70 shipped from eBay, it's big enough to have a real keyboard and screen, but small enough to almost be almost as portable as a Pyra, and it can run pretty much anything from GOG without hassles. If it breaks, I'll get a $100 Asus craptop and keep on trucking without worries. I could put Debian on it but there's more fun software on Windows. I wish I shared your enthusiasm. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only mainstream person on a site full of Atari jaguar fans around here.

"European craftsmanship" heh heh heh. These aren't Swiss watches. What is it about this device that appeals to you, in a way that Android, Windows, iOS, or Chrome OS doesn't? If I were to spend $400+ on a handheld device, I'd want it to be from a manufacturer who could help me fix or replace it when something breaks. The track record of these guys suggests that the buyer would be on his or her own, with no ready replacement parts or units available -- if/when this thing actually ships. I'd also like the specs to be a little more forward-leaning than this. The Pandora was interesting but underpowered and overpriced by the time it came out. Pyra looks to be on the same track. Agreed with StopDrop about GPD Win, though it's a different market since it's running proprietary Windows software.

Meh, they're toys. I don't mind if they're ugly. The VCS wasn't much of a looker, either.

Better act fast! Time is running out! [please don't send them any money]

Plus that TechnoSource agreement was a long time ago, and has nothing to do with AtGames.

Or a Pi, that comes with everything. "Real men" don't play ancient video games.

All of the AtariBox threads are literally "much ado about nothing." We don't know enough to have a meaningful discussion. I think Atari's teaser video fails to prompt any interesting questions, and the media stories of "Atari is back" are just as boring and stupid as the "Coleco is back" stories we heard a while back.

You have to fix the score, too. It's impossible to have a score of 0 once you've eaten any number of dots.

Yes, the Genesis/MegaDrive is as common as can be. Since you've gone this long without one you might as well wait for the new AtGames version, which will have HDMI, nice wireless controllers, and a mess of games built-in, as well as a cartridge slot for old games, too. It should be out in a few months.

Maybe ... or folks would move on from the oldies and focus on newer games. Part of the reason for my obsession with this era was being able to find shirtfulls of cartridges at yard sales as a kid.

Don't forget the Atari Flashback Gold Activision Edition! That's the one for me. Same price as the regular Gold edition, but in a special black box, with 10 additional Activision games and a set of vintage-style wired paddle controllers. Here's the quote from their page, emphasis mine. I hope pre-orders open up soon. Even without an SD card slot, that's still a lot of good old games to play, in HDMI, with authentic style controllers. Detail of the box shows Pitfall, River Raid, H.E.R.O, Activision Decathlon, Chopper Command, and Enduro.

Just to be clear -- the grey circles indicate UNAVAILABLE spots. Pink and orange are still open and ready to rent, not that anyone should.

Example of what, if you're not comparing Genesis vs. Jaguar? Genesis was about 5 years prior to Jaguar, so the jump really /should/have been greater. The CPU that is shared between them, the Motorola 68000, runs at different clock speeds, so it's not like one gets an apples to apples comparison even when considering that alone. Genesis ran it at 7.61 MHz, Jaguar at 13.295 MHz. The Jag was "helped" by having several ports of popular games, but since they weren't notably different/better than the versions on other systems, the Jag ended up looking weaker. Dragon Bruce Lee, Double Dragon V, Flashback, NBA Jam TE, Pinball Fantasies, Pitfall Mayan Adventure, Theme Park, and Zoop are a significant portion of the system's library. Road Rash is not a fast FPS game, but it looks a heck of a lot better than any Atari Jaguar games from 1991. Aladdin for DOS < Aladdin for Genesis, according to GOG reviewers. https://www.gog.com/game/disney_aladdin

This would be a good question to ask in the Genesis section of this site. If you're looking to compare and contrast with Jaguar games, I suppose the first three are a good way to make the Jaguar look better in comparison. FPS - Zero Tolerance or Duke Nukem. Not a genre the Genesis is particularly good at. Racing -- Virtua Racing, but it requires the SVP chip in the cartridge. I like Road Rash, Super Monaco GP, and Outrun. Batman Returns on Sega CD is probably the best to look at. Flight/Space simulator -- N/A, this isn't the place for those. I suppose an EA game like F/22 Interceptor would qualify. Framey and slow though, not this system's strength. 2D platformer -- THIS is where Genesis shines. I like Vectorman and Sonic 2, but there are zillions of others. Any of these. http://www.racketboy.com/retro/best-sega-genesis-action-platformers