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Ten-in-1 Atari Joystick Available
Dave21212 writes "My wife emailed me today with a link (yes Geeks can get married) to this interesting little retro-toy. It's a self-contained Atari game unit. The joystick *is* the console, battery operated with 10 preprogrammed titles and RCA out to your television. Includes Adventure, Real Sports Volleyball, Gravitar, Video Olympics, Circus Atari, Yar's Revenge, Asteroids, Centipede, Breakout, and Missile Command. She found it here on Avon and after a bit of Googling for this, I turned up no other sellers. The silly season is just around the corner, what a cool stocking stuffer! (Batteries not included)." Looks pretty authentic to the original... We mentioned this earlier but hadn't seen it for sale anywhere.
They have these in lots of truckstops. They have them with nes games, and I hear even snes/genesis ones are available.
I've seen these in another form factor, but it wasn't compatible with my TV. Make sure it supports NTSC on this side of the lake.
These are for sale elswhere, they just have a different design. I actually prefer this design to the one mentioned in the article.
-Kaos
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Well not with this unit, but Activision had released a similar device a few months back....and yes, Pitfall is there...only link I could find quickly...
Activison 10 in 1
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
according to this it looks like it's made by Jakks Pacific.
Last year someone gave me a little self-contained unit with a bunch of Activision games in it. It's about the size of a modern console controller, has two joypads, and a few extra buttons for starting, resetting, and powering off the unit--so it's not the same form factor as the classic Atari joystick shown on the Avon site.
;-)
One thing I noticed about the unit I have is that it's not a true 2600; it's clearly either ported or emulated on some different hardware. There are visual errors in the games and occasionally gameplay errors. Since most of the 2600 games actually used the hardware to handle collision detection, errors in simulating the hardware result in more than just visual differences.
I don't think most people would notice the differences in the unit I have, but I worked on some 2600 emulation stuff, so I know what I'm looking for.
The selection of games in this unit is different from what I have. Ah, fond memories of waking up early Saturday morning so I could try to flip the score on Yars' Revenge before my brothers and sisters came in clamoring for cartoons...
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While walking down 14th Street [Manhattan] the other day, I ran across one of those 'happy cry lucky' style imported crap tourist trap shops that had, among all the garbage, several different kinds of 'N in 1' games-in-the-game-controller products.
One stood out because it had 180 different games in a SNES style controller. For $40.
I'm sure Canal street has a similar assortment of gaming trivia, as well.
So, if you happen to be in NYC... take a stroll down either and have a close look. You'll want the western part of Canal street (where most of the electronic vendors are) or 14th between 5th ave and about 7th ave.
This one 76 *real* arcade games inside of it.
activision version
-jon
see here
-jon
http://www.langleycreations.com/pitfall/
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The reason this one is so special is because the design, the very joystick itself, is so faithful to the design of the -original- Atari 2600 CX40 joystick.
:)
No silly Fluro casing, just something that is truely classic. It might be a bit obscure if you arn't familiar with the 2600, of course.. but it counts, and shows this was obviously designed by someone with a clue about retro gaming, not just a marketing drone.
I should know, I have one sitting right next to me, plugged into my Amiga
Yep, Infogrames is as Atari as you can get these days.
;)
I have their "Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee" game (http://www.godzillaoncube.com/) for the GameCube (very good game btw, with the real Godzilla and friends from Toho). The box had "Atari" on the front, an Atari splash during the startup, and an Atari logo on a building rooftop billboard in the intro movie. If you play at normal or hard difficulty level, some of the buildings you smash will have Atari icons in them. Collect them, and you unlock gallery pictures.
If Infogrames is putting out a joystick/console with old Atari games, believe you me, it is as legit as it can be.
Funny thing about that Godzilla game: it has not only brought Atari and Nintendo together, but Sony has been promoting it in their "Godzilla Ultimate Collection" videos, and lines from their "Godzilla 2000" promo material have appeared in the game.
Atari. Nintendo. Sony. Only one Godzilla is leaving out of this little club of his: Microsoft!
Chief Tsujimori: "I won't let you get away. I will never let you escape."
Godzilla elegantly lifts his tail skyward to give her the "finger", crashes it down on the water, and submerges.
"Godzilla X Megagiras", 2000
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At Avon you can use the discount code FIRSTORDER to get 15% off...
Seriously.
My wife ended up with one last year sometime. Looks like a little controller with all the games burned in on a chip. It's got a little select screen you can choose btween different games.
Hooks up to a tv via RCA, video and audio.
What's it like? In a word.. Shit.
Prone to graphics glitches, controller is cheaply made, and it's interesting for all of 18 seconds and you're done with your blast from the past. There's better things to throw money at.
You can buy them on EBay (search for famico, super joy, power player, 76000 in 1) for about $30. They may be purported to have 76000, hundreds, 146, etc. games. As far as I can tell, they regular super joy has 76 games, the super joy III has 128 games (well, it has 146 but several don't work/are duplicates).
I bought two Super Joys at the Festival Bazaar flea market in Fort Worth, Texas. The vendors there have dozens if not hundreds of the things. See http://9thtee.net/funstuff.htm for a list of what is included in the joystick.
I'm going to take a wild guess that most of us have not ordered from Avon before, right?
Use the coupon code "FIRSTORDER" to save 15% ($3) this fine cosmetic product.
An awesome geek stocking stuffer. I'm sure I'll pay for it in Avon spam and catalogs..
A friend of mine said (ages ago) that he received an original-style NES controller with an embedded system and some games. The cord from the controller was the video cable that you plugged into your TV. How neat is that? :> (Now if there's just a way to upload ROMs...)
Alari
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My wife recieves the SWISS COLONY catalog of sweets and meats as well as lots of usless junk.
In thier catalog they sell this Atari Joystic thing.
BLAH,blah so forth and so on.....
many RadioShack stores still have the ones with 20 some odd Activision games built into a PS1 style controller..
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10 Activision games in a different controller. I saw them at Wal-Mart, of all places. Sucks about the batteries, though. And they are mostly or all one player games, I would expect.
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It is a hardware-based Atari 2600 emulator. The original ROM's have been altered somewhat.
I've had one for three weeks. Click on the link below, and read my review for more information.
Mike Stulir
The BACK IN TIME Classic Gaming Webcast
http://www.backntime.net