276°
Posted 20 hours ago

Retro Atari Flashback 8 Gold HD (Electronic Games)

£9.9£99Clearance
ZTS2023's avatar
Shared by
ZTS2023
Joined in 2023
82
63

About this deal

That’s right, retro games fans, you can now own one of the coolest consoles ever, thanks to the Atari Flashback 8 Gold Edition! Because of that, the ASIC-based reproduction of the 2600's hardware is flawless in it's execution of original 2600 code.

A Wikipedia page notes the Flashback system was designed by "Atari veteran Curt Vendel" and that it was "unpopular with some purists" (in other words, anybody who knows anything about classic games). The fourth (2019) edition includes the same games as the third (2018) edition but with Atari's unreleased prototype game Frog Pond replacing Frogs and Flies.which means it is going to go into the folder that we are currently in, in this case, that will be the "platform-tools" folder that we downloaded earlier. You could easily toss it in a backpack and take it over to your friend’s house for some retro gaming. They’re located at the front of the controller and enable you Rewind or Reset your game at any time. Maybe that was an intentional nod as to how out-of-touch Atari's Marketing department was at times, back in the VCS's heyday? Sometimes you do have to remove the paddles plug in for joy sticks to work but overall, great family fun!

You can change the bit depth to 24, and I believe to make them friendlier to the Flashback, they also need to have the color profile and any tags removed. The only thing left that I see is Shield Shifters looks like a label, but there is no official box style of image I can find. AtGames has announced a a few new entries in its line Atari Flashback consoles, all of which will release later this year. After opening it up, remove the other 9 black screws holding the boards into place as well as the silver screw holding in the power jack.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The same problems with them (being upside-down and too large for any controller but Flashback joysticks) exist. Now all we need is someone to create a little console version of a C64 with all the classic Lucasfilm games on it. Contains the same games as the Gold version, but also includes 2 wired paddles in addition to two wireless joysticks.

Asda Great Deal

Free UK shipping. 15 day free returns.
Community Updates
*So you can easily identify outgoing links on our site, we've marked them with an "*" symbol. Links on our site are monetised, but this never affects which deals get posted. Find more info in our FAQs and About Us page.
New Comment