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I'd say single screen platformer. I like the mechanics, walk, jump, cough bubbles onto and trapping enemies, which you now have to run down, head butt, or stomp to burst then chase down whatever goodies pop out. I won't swear how many levels there are, but in the nineties, a friend and I beat the arcade machine a local store had, and I'm pretty sure it was right around 100 levels.

Yeah I've totally wrecked some silver label games over the years due to cleaning. I think the label is silver, and the image and or text is printed on that, and not very well attached, so its actually pretty easy to scrub/rub the ink clean off. Guess the paddles may only be a black label with the silver placed over it, then painted gold. If the whole label was silver I'd expect some of the black to come off the same way. That may also explain why some rackets appear to be pressed into the label, rather than flat on, though some do appear to be flat with no indention. Whatever the silver is, its apparently a poor base for other ink.

Wow, that sux dude. I think its more over bearing security features of various os 's than anything wrong with atariage though. Thanks for the heads up anyways Albert, even though I'm sure most us long haul members have never gotten anything bad from the site (at least I never have, despite lots of DL over the years.)

If it was from wear, I'd think the gold would partially still be there. Cleaners could, but without knowing the quality of the rest of the label, I'd think it could potentially damage other parts as well. I checked mine and their all gold racket versions. Maybe its a pack in, or a controller for one of the many pirate, bootleg, knockoff consoles from the era. While some were totally different, like Gemini's weird joystick/paddle combo controller, some went for near exact, if not exact copies of hardware and accessories. Granted, atari themselves had production "issues" at various times, look at the consoles themselves, often sharing parts with each other, or missing some components (think I saw a topic with a 2600 missing a video switch at one point. Maybe a Jr controller, or if the 2800 (Japanese 2600) had paddles, maybe its from that? Is that pic a reference to original gold paddle, or are those wired together? If the latter, maybe a P1/P2 reference, though I've got none like that. Anyhow, cool, hope someone more knowledgeable chimes in. Edit) thought of more. Maybe a refurb, a way Atari can id it without average Joe paying attention to it, or, the original batch of 2600 heavy Sixers had a slightly different stick, with an aluminum hexagonal disc on top, maybe the silver paddle was original?

Wow cool. Can't wait to see more footage, looks like the attract doesn't have rocks, but I like the look of ships and fire, basically still vectors in color with the flair lighting or whatever its called (or was that just the camera trying to compensate for mass contrast between light and dark?) To shaggy, wow, that's awesome, but at the same time ridiculous. Its awesomely ridiculous Edit) I hope with the extra player slots these machines can get a full load of players, three playing at once would be insane.

Really? Well maybe I'm remembering wrong, could have sworn those were all steel games, but I'm probably just remembering wrong lol. Darn agism, or whatever it is 😛 thenthen again, like dragon ball and Godzilla, just ataris name isn't the same thing as owning. Cool ill have to look it up on Google, do some actual research instead of relying on faulty memory.

Berserk board game, awesome! Never knew that was a thing either. Wonder how its played? Am I going to have to look into acquiring board games too now?

I'm sure most us a holes will give our feedback/opinions regardless 😛, look forward to seeing some video footage. I've noticed the ginormous screens on lots of (the few) modern arcades I've seen. I'm all for big screens, but some are so big I get the sense their using it as a pseudo attract mode for people across the room, or even outside the arcade. How practical is this giant screen for the player standing right next to it though? (I've seen machines, but due to time constraints and/or not interested in the specific game, I've not played one yet) I'd totally try asteroids though, when/if a local place gets one.

I kind of agree, atari is never going to be relevant again if they only release classics compilations each console generation. While I (and I'm sure a lot of others, especially on atariage) love these things, atari has to big a hole in their history to gather much attention that way, even with excellent products like atari 50th and 2600+. They need more modern games, but I'm kind of hit and miss on the recharged stuff. Like haunted house was "meh" for me, I actually liked the stylized version on Atari 50th better, and was a fan of the original from way back. They need more modern stuff, like the early 2k area, now most of that is owned third party, so no rereleasing of dragging balls or Godzilla, but how about primal rage on Godzilla engine? Atari has lots of fighters that could update wit dbz engine, and I do truly believe Atari karts and club drive could have excellent modern daw sequels that could attract modern day customers as well as old school fans. I'd love some light gun action too, like carnevil and area 51 sequels. Come on atari, its not a diss, we really are rooting for you.

Do you have anything else you can plug into the vcr? Most vcr have a tuner, but some don't. Pretty sure if its got an input it will work as a passthrough even if it has no tuner, but may not convert the image from RF to component. Also, try just hooking direct to tv, vcr is used to boost the atari's weaker video signal, but won't help if the Atari isn't putting out a signal at all. Just want to make sure the Atari is working, and test passthrough to make sure that's not an issue either. You could try an RF out to your tv as well, even if its not as good a signal, bypass any conversion process the vcs may or may not be doing.

I think were always in the middle of a collecting bubble. Its just hard to see when there is such a wide variety of consoles and games, especially as some games and systems seem to never become valuable, regardless of rarity, while some super commons go sky high with seemingly no real reason.

Not direct from atari, but I've ordered stuff through Amazon, and Atari stuff is hit and miss on how quickly it arrives. I have received everything I've ordered, eventually, but some items take longer than others. Think they just have production issues, and so far that bit seems normal atm, and as Atari is fairly small, its somewhat understandable. I just hope they do improve.

May have gotten it as Christmas and just not be into classics. Think that's a decent price for run and jump unless yoh just need it complete.

As long as someone isn't trying to pass them off as original, I've got no issues replacing missing or damaged labels. I've got games for all kinds of systems with label issues, but Atari seems the worst, don't know if its quality control, simple age, or how much they were handled, probably bits of each.

Love it. I do hope they keep upping the drivers for better paddle and alternative controller support, but outside a tiny number of games, I've been pretty happy with it out of the box. Love the simplicity ease and clarity of the HDMI, and despite just being an emulation box, using actual carts, even if it is just dumping them makes a huge difference over other emu and pnp systems. I do hope for a 5200 version in the furure, the 400 just didn't really click for me. Lol, I thought I was the only one using classic consoles for my current setup, outside Minecraft, there's just not much modern I'm interested in.

I was going to say Commodore 64, looks right with the bit of plastic at the top and nearly cart wide connector. Is it no label? Usually that says somewhere what system its for.

Well Wii, and more modern added online, and digital download, so there's that. Its just that in Nintendo's case, its never been as pronounced as it is on other modern consoles, even with switch. Imo that's a good thing, and why switch is still my current gen console of choice, stay away from the blue line games and their pretty much all complete and playable sans internet.

I'd say go for it. Upper end collectors won't pay attention, as we all know about wata shenanigans, artificially inflating prices, giving a pass souly on condition, getting bootleg, homebrew, and fakes graded, etc, but there's plenty of uneducated out there the price bump could be well worth it.

I think part of peoples expectations is "its Atari, and they can do no wrong" mentality, and of course, that attitude WILL severely skew results when they get their hands on a less than perfect product. In my case, in my case, I went in with the expectation that it wouldn't be perfect, despite being Atari, so when I see "bad" it wasn't as bad for me. Still the controller ring buttons give me the impression someone designed it "to be cool" but didn't consider ergonomics, and obviously didn't play test the thing. Pretty sure the 400 used the same cx40 the 2600 did (8direction digital stick with one button) with the exception it was beige instead of black. The actual computer used the, well, computer, for all the options. The mini tries to make the stick be a do-all, and the stick suffers. If the mini had a few buttons to fake needed options, instead of trying to cram everything onto one stick (which lets face it, the original is awkward anyways, we just give it a free pass as we grew up with it) the controller could have been better. Nix trying to simulate paddles and the 5200 stick, or just make a 5200 mini instead of a 400 mini. Anybody that thinks the 5200 stick was better is so full of crap their eyes are brown. Granted, most of the 5200 sticks problem is how fragile it is (the same issue the flashback one had, sticks broke easily), but it still had issues outside that, turning what could be fun games frustrating because they tried an early, non centering analog stick to run largely digitally controlled games. It worked better than expected for the few analog games, but as most those were pong types (breakout) while it worked pretty well in those cases, it left many of us just wanting a rotary paddle still. Anyhow, from the context of I wasn't expecting perfection, the 400 is (in my OPINION) pretty good. I've got more issues with them "trying to be cute" with the stick than with the rest of the unit.

The screen would be the hard part of a single function handheld, but if someone was willing to have the screens made, I see no reason why not do a homebrew (though little reason why either, prestige?) Micro vision has the advantage the screen is a preexisting part, your just making a cart to interact with the screen and controls Something like game wizard, is a weird bastardized hybrid between the two, it uses carts, but the single function screen is part of the cart, while the console is just a battery box with buttons (kinda like rzone) I didn't really like the double button games, don't get me wrong, they worked fine, but it always felt wrong to have a single large pill shaped button that was actually two buttons in a rocker. I'm sure it was a cost thing, as Tiger electronics could use the same mold for 2 and 4 button games.

Mario bros is the only one I can think with simultaneous coop, but there are plenty with turn based coop. Most the simultaneous games I can think of are vs, but I can say, from first hand experience, not "playing to win" can make games fun to others. I'd often do this to get others into playing games I like. They are encouraged to keep playing when your not just absolutely stomping them, and will improve, so as you go on, you can play better. Its a lot of fun, and heck, sometimes people will get better than me, even when I am trying lol.

I gave it a seven. Its good, absolutely could use improvement (slight lag, though no experience with actual hardware, but I assume original doesn't lag) and who the hell thought buttons on the ring disc thing was a good idea? No knock on games, that would never satisfy everybody anyways, even if it contained every original production run game.

Oh yeah, hate the trend towards "ultra glossy" never saw the appeal, and imo, mat systems seem to automatically look better.

Cool, never saw the key chains either, that's pretty cool.

I wasn't aware roller coaster tycoon really did all that well. It exists, sure, but even on a board dedicated to Atari I never see it discussed. The last one I bought still had Atari logos on it, but producing, or publishing, doesnt mean owning. Like in the early 00's era, atari logos were on dragon ball z and Godzilla games, and I know they don't own those. Anyhow, seven mil is a bit high imo, hopefully they can at least recoup the cost of buying it.