Atari 2600+ is AARP approved!

[Sean_1970]

6 minutes ago, scifidude79 said:

Yeah, my parents struggled to get one too. By the time they could afford it, the 5200 was out and they bought that. We didn't have a VCR until closer to 1990. I remember that because Batman with Michael Keaton was one of the first tapes we got and that movie came out in theaters in 1989.

 

That's why I'm less fond of reviews by people who had Atari reach out to them and send them one to review. They have no real interest in it, they just do what they said they would do and they review it. We understand the value because we're Atari people and we gladly bought it with our hard earned money. Like you, I consider the price nothing because I've been enjoying it so much and I will for years to come.

 

For sure, the mini console spoiled people. A tiny system with X amount of games on it for $60 to $100. I've got several of them. I have the NES Classic, SNES Classic, Genesis Mini (first model), Commodore 64 mini and the Atari Flashback 50. None of them are hooked up. The only one of those systems that I don't have a horde of physical games for is the Commodore 64. And those are mainly games I intend to play. With the device that includes so many games, many of them wind up being games I don't want to play. And then they won't/can't include a lot of my favorite games. So, I find more value in the console that plays cartridges.

I was never keen on the mini systems because they didn’t have support for games not included in them. Also when confronted with that many at once like with buying a load of CDs at one time I just don’t put time into playing more complex titles until months/years later. I like the Evercade comps because they’re a smaller number of games and if there’s some I don’t like there will be some I do, so it balances out. 
 

Atari cart binging is different as you normally play these games in short bursts 😉