TrekkiELO Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) On 8/31/2023 at 8:28 PM, Atariboy said: I would think neither. Likely the arcade game Drag Race from Atari/Kee Games. Drag Race is both an apparently new and unreleased Atari 2600 game or prototype along with the original arcade version! 😎 Edited September 18, 2023 by TrekkiELO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) double post Edited September 18, 2023 by famicommander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 5 hours ago, ComputerSpaceFan said: You can't play Tempest with the paddle???? What the hell?? Next year's device still won't play Tempest with the paddle, but it will include faux woodgrain and enough LEDs to be visible from space. Preorder now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) I totally would pre-order but as is tradition they don't ship to Canada. Nice! Edited September 18, 2023 by ComputerSpaceFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 (edited) It's a paddle, not a spinner. Just like the Atari 2600's paddle controllers, it's not free-spinning and has a limited range as seen by the previous video from a few weeks ago showcasing only the joystick controller. Hence why it's locked to the 2600 paddle games and a few arcade games. Other than being disappointed that it's apparently not supported by arcade Night Driver, it's not a surprise that it doesn't work here with Indy 500, Tempest, Super Bug, etc. A spinner or wheel that hits a physical stop as you're turning rather presents a problem in such games, lol. As one that has been following this for the arcade side thanks to spotting Drag Race on the boxart, I'm still optimistic after watching this unveiling on YouTube. Much of what I was hoping to see make it out is present and accounted for in the arcade category, although I'd of loved to have seen even more rarities like Video Pinball. Hopefully some of the gaps in Atari's microprocessor era arcade lineup can be filled with the SD slot expandability. Edited September 19, 2023 by Atariboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekkiELO Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 Cloak & Dagger from the Atari 50 compilation should have been included to round out arcade games at 40! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekkiELO Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 (edited) Atari Game Station Pro Games 2600 (82) 3D Tic-Tac-Toe Adventure Adventure II Air-Sea Battle Aquaventure Asteroids Atari Video Cube Basic Math Basketball Bowling Boxing (Activision) Breakout Canyon Bomber Centipede Championship Soccer Circus Atari Combat Combat Two Crystal Castles Dark Chambers Demons to Diamonds Desert Falcon Dodge ‘Em Double Dunk Drag Race Fast Eddie Fatal Run Flag Capture Football Frog Pond Golf Gravitar Hangman Haunted House Home Run Human Cannonball Indy 500 Maze Craze Millipede Miniature Golf Missile Command MotoRodeo Night Driver Off the Wall Outlaw Pong (Video Olympics) Quadrun Radar Lock Realsports Baseball Realsports Basketball Realsports Boxing Realsports Football Realsports Soccer Realsports Tennis Realsports Volleyball Road Runner Saboteur Save Mary Secret Quest Sky Diver Slot Racers Solaris Space Raid Space War Sprint Master Steeplechase Street Racer Stunt Cycle Submarine Commander Super Baseball Super Breakout Super Football Surround Swordquest: Earthworld Swordquest: Fireworld Swordquest: Waterworld Tempest Video Checkers Video Pinball Warlords Wizard Yars’ Revenge 5200 (7) Centipede Frisky Tom Meebzork Millipede Missile Command Realsports Baseball Realsports Basketball 7800 (10) Alien Brigade Asteroids Basketbrawl Centipede Dark Chambers Desert Falcon Food Fight Motorpsycho Realsports Baseball Scrapyard Dog Arcade (39) Alpha One Asteroids Asteroids Deluxe Atari Baseball Atari Football Atari Soccer Avalanche Basketball Canyon Bomber Centipede Cloud 9 Crystal Castles Dominos Drag Race Fire Truck Food Fight Gravitar I, Robot Liberator Lunar Battle Lunar Lander Major Havoc Millipede Missile Command Monte Carlo Night Driver Pool Shark Quantum Red Baron Runaway Sky Diver Sky Raider Space Duel Super Breakout Super Bug Tempest Tournament Table Ultra Tank Warlords Bonus 8 Eyes Bad Street Brawler Beast Ball Brave Battle Saga Burglar X Canon: Legend of the New Gods Cheese Chase Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum Diver Boy Eliminator Boat Duel Escape from Atlantis Exploding Fist Fancy World Free Fall Galaxy Gunners Gorodki Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D Lan Master Lawn Mower Little Lancelot Lucky Boom Maniac's Square Mega 3D Noah's Ark Mermaids of Atlantis Metal Mech Mighty Warriors Motor City Patrol Nightshade: Part I: The Claws of Sutekh Noah's Ark Ping Pong Masters 93 Pow 2 Power Punch II Pyramids of Ra Radical Rex Snakki Snowboard Championship Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston Steel Force Street Racer Sumo Slam Super Hunchback Switchblade Sword of Sodan Target: Renegade The Fidgetts The Gadget Twins The Humans The Immortal The Mutant Virus Thunderbolt Thunderbolt II Tinhead Top Racer 2 Treasure Master Viking Child Water Margin World Rally World Trophy Soccer Zany Golf Zooming Secretary 😎 Edited September 19, 2023 by TrekkiELO 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 I want to know if you can use controllers on this other than the wireless ones included. I have not seen that yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Intellivision Master Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 19 hours ago, ComputerSpaceFan said: You can't play Tempest with the paddle???? What the hell?? Yeah, that is weird. The console does take an SD card though. Perhaps there will be a firmware update that will fix the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 23 minutes ago, Intellivision Master said: Yeah, that is weird. The console does take an SD card though. Perhaps there will be a firmware update that will fix the issue. Atariboy correctly diagnosed the "why?". It's not a firmware issue. Simply put, a paddle is not a spinner. There's basically three controller issues with this thing. First, there's no spinner for games that need a free spinning dial. Second, there's no gamepad for many of the Piko games. Third, there's no trackball for the trackball-based arcade games. So yeah, they definitely need to allow for alternative controllers or you'll have a miserable experience with a relatively high percentage of the included games. One could argue there's also a related fourth issue in that you're limited to two players with the included paddles and there are four player games. There's also arguably a fifth, unrelated issue. There obviously aren't over 200 games in the game list (well under 200, actually). Either they're counting the compilation titles like Video Olympics as multiple games, or, to be generous (and unrealistic), there are plans for free games via the microSD card slot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Intellivision Master Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 16 minutes ago, Bill Loguidice said: There's basically three controller issues with this thing. First, there's no spinner for games that need a free spinning dial. Second, there's no gamepad for many of the Piko games. Third, there's no trackball for the trackball-based arcade games. So yeah, they definitely need to allow for alternative controllers or you'll have a miserable experience with a relatively high percentage of the included games. One could argue there's also a related fourth issue in that you're limited to two players with the included paddles and there are four player games. Maybe My Arcade or some other company will make new controllers (spinner, gamepad & trackball) for the Atari Game Station Pro. If not, then the original controllers could work via an adapter on the new console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cilantro55 Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 On 9/4/2023 at 8:58 PM, swlovinist said: My order for the GameStation Plus has been backordered. I wonder if this got pulled due to the upcoming Atari 2600+. I go to the My Arcade website and it is no longer being promoted. I don't see the two products as the same market. What casual fan is going to get a 2600+? Hell, like everyone here, I grew up with Atari, but I don't have my childhood 2600 or its games anymore. I'm not going to get a 2600+ and track down old cartridges. The My Arcade seems like a decent option for casual fans as is, but with potential to add games. That's much more interesting to me at least. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 So GenXGrownup says many types of controllers should work on this thing ... I wonder if there's some way to get a steering wheel of some kind hooked up so I can play Night Driver the way it was meant to be played? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 5 hours ago, ComputerSpaceFan said: So GenXGrownup says many types of controllers should work on this thing ... I wonder if there's some way to get a steering wheel of some kind hooked up so I can play Night Driver the way it was meant to be played? I would like to see exactly what works and what does not and how controllers are connected to this device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 11 minutes ago, swlovinist said: I would like to see exactly what works and what does not and how controllers are connected to this device. When you get yours, John, we'd LOVE to see a few alternate USB controller attempts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Intellivision Master Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 This thing looks pretty neat. I'm interested in this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Intellivision Master Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akator Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Anyone have a current Amazon link for the Gamestation Pro? The Amazon link I had bookmarked is no longer valid and I can't find it anywhere. I hope the YouTube videos describing how games can be added didn't screw everything up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 10 minutes ago, akator said: Anyone have a current Amazon link for the Gamestation Pro? The Amazon link I had bookmarked is no longer valid and I can't find it anywhere. I hope the YouTube videos describing how games can be added didn't screw everything up... I've got one Wish Listed for Canadian Amazon (giant link below) ...... I agree that I hope My Arcade haven't panicked about the SD card stuff and are going to change things. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BT36XWTS/?coliid=I2BDKKC5ENMFS5&colid=M44QK4SA7RDS&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Intellivision Master Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 Well, looks like I will be getting one to review. I dont know when. Is it easy to add games via SD card slot? Any tips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 5 hours ago, swlovinist said: Well, looks like I will be getting one to review. I dont know when. Is it easy to add games via SD card slot? Any tips? There’s a video review of this on YouTube — I think you just need to make folders with ROMs and the machine will switch to a different mode, one that scans the directories, when a card is inserted. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 most appreciated! 1 hour ago, Flojomojo said: There’s a video review of this on YouTube — I think you just need to make folders with ROMs and the machine will switch to a different mode, one that scans the directories, when a card is inserted. Most appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 I'm a little torn on this ... I have so much stuff like this already, but it is a large, almost definitive pile of software. It's cheap, and not hideous. But I don't need it. If I buy it, I doubt I'll use it much. But if I don't get it, I will miss out and it will be hard to find. If it turns up in Costco today for the $79 price quoted elsewhere, I'll probably get it. I'm the worst kind of collector, I only pick up retro compilations that don't accrue value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 They had me at Night Driver Arcade 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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