First of all I would like to say Curt is a great guy and the following is not about him but the flashback console and Infotari.
This is complete bullshit. All it means is that they were trying to cash in before the market was oversaturated with this retro junk (which many believe has already happened.) Releasing this frankenstein console was a waste of time and energy that could have gone toward creating a good product. How fast something was made has no bearing whatsoever on whether people should spend their hard earned cash on it. Crap made in less time than other crap is still crap.
The people on these newsgroups aren't the only ones who know how screwed up these all-in-one games are. I have friends who got the jakks sticks as gifts last year, who haven't played the originals for years, and knew that things were missing, didn't look/sound/play right etc.
No real attempt was made by Infotari to create a quality product so I will not attempt to give them any credit for trying.
Jeff