andy_bernstein Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 (edited) Hello, In order to support Infogrames and the upcoming Flashback 2, I decided to purchase a Flashback 1 from Best Buy and, interestingly, the Flashback is sold out at most Best Buys here in Los Angeles (I found mine in the West Los Angeles store, next to Santa Monica, but the other Best Buy stores I walked in were literally out of it). Anyway, I haven't even opened the box (and probably won't). The Flashback 1 is sitting on a shelf here and a look at the box is enough for me. However, I did try Crystal Castles in store w/ the mini 7800 joysticks and it was a painful experience. Nevertheless, it was nice of Best Buy to have a flat screen plugged into a Flashback 1 for testing purposes. I'm crossing my fingers for a Flashback III with Pokey support, maybe AMY support, and some sort of 8-bit compatibilty (or at least 5200). The other road would be to recreate a real 7800 for an upcoming third incarnation but I don't think the 7800 had much of an impact on the Atari community (or game community for that matter) compared to the 8-bit line. Anyway, I'm crossing my fingers for the Flashback II to be a success. A Flashback III in the works is a great motivation to submit a homebrew for sure. Peace... AB. Edited July 23, 2005 by andy_bernstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 It's kinda poopy, isn't it? At least it was cheap, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Yeah, there's a huge stack of them here at our Best Buy marked down to 15 bucks. Sadly, I bought mine for I think $35. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 It's kinda poopy, isn't it? At least it was cheap, eh? 898543[/snapback] Kinda is a bit of an understatement. I'd say it features broad spectrum fecality. Asteroids with no movement physics, yeah that's a nice port. Did anyone do QA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_bernstein Posted July 27, 2005 Author Share Posted July 27, 2005 I paid mine $ 20 and probably will purchase another one to support Atari NYC until the second Flashback is out. BTW- As I said, I still haven't touched it; the Flashback 1 is still in the box (sealed). Maybe I'll hack the next Flashback 1 I purchase so that it does something useful. Yes, there were tons of them at the West Los Angeles Best Buy I went to BUT all other Best Buy stores I visited were sold out of the Flashback 1 so maybe Atari did indeed move some impressive numbers there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Yes, there were tons of them at the West Los Angeles Best Buy I went to BUT all other Best Buy stores I visited were sold out of the Flashback 1 so maybe Atari did indeed move some impressive numbers there. Or maybe they took all the Flashback 1's from stores where it wasn't selling, and put them all in that one store, which had historically sold a lot of them. I've certainly seen Best Buy do that before. (Got an awesome deal on an A/C unit that way.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Yes, there were tons of them at the West Los Angeles Best Buy I went to BUT all other Best Buy stores I visited were sold out of the Flashback 1 so maybe Atari did indeed move some impressive numbers there. Or maybe they took all the Flashback 1's from stores where it wasn't selling, and put them all in that one store, which had historically sold a lot of them. I've certainly seen Best Buy do that before. (Got an awesome deal on an A/C unit that way.) 899896[/snapback] All retail stores do this. The stores that do the most volume will get stuff transfered in from other stores so they can get rid of it. The only other alternative is having outlet stores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandre_Taito Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Anyone willing to open up your flashback 1 and shooting up some photos, for our hapiness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 It's just a Famiclone, isn't it? Nothing really exciting to dissect.... ironically, the Flashback 2, which will be much more worthy of dissection, is going to be something we're less willing to sacrifice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandre_Taito Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 It's just a Famiclone, isn't it? Nothing really exciting to dissect.... ironically, the Flashback 2, which will be much more worthy of dissection, is going to be something we're less willing to sacrifice 900277[/snapback] Don't need to sacrifice, I only want to see the guts Of course, I'm curious, and I still cannot have one, buaaaaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Anyone willing to open up your flashback 1 and shooting up some photos, for our hapiness? 900192[/snapback] I may just shoot it up period Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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