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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.
All they need to do is add the ability to plug another Atari joystick (real, or one of these new game-full units) into the unit to allow multi-player.
That, and add a lot more games to it.
yay!!! joystick on the right, button on the left!!!
do you have any idea how hard it was to go from that configuration to the nintendo-led joystick on the left, buttons on the right?
bring back the joystick on the right!!! Screw with the nintendo generation!
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Having to blow on the cartridges to get the games to work sometimes. This is a bonus, no cartridge to blow on. Plus you get the excellent games of yesteryear. I wonder if I will get this for Christmas...
Exagerating a bit aren't we? And as I was playing my Xbox last night, I don't remember having to lift the entire unit to play it either.
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Are you kidding, as the first generation of gammers grows older, there will be an increasing demand for nostalgia. Jesus, I still play ZORK every once and a while.
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It is a Joystick... I am pretty sure Circus atari, breakout and video olympics all used the paddles.
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I bought a bunch of 80-in-1 Super Mega Joy (or somthing like that) systems in Taiwan last year and gave them as Christmas presents. Tetris and Super Mario Bros went over big with everybody. I think that only releasing 10 games might be a mistake, plus you need to have two-players for Combat to be fun.
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never sell? hell i just bought one. i'm sure a number of other ppl here did too. just seeing that pic of someone playing asteriods sold me.
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Yes but it's not the same with a dc controller :
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I bought a bunch of those as Christmas gifts last year, I think I payed like $18 each or something.
They're cool... its a cloned NES with 30 or so games (plus the ability to start on higher levels, which they count towards that 180). Illegal, but fun for the price. Good gift for gen-x'ers who played those when they were kids.
On the original 2600 joustick, you could do this by opening it up and rewiring it so that when you held it a 90 degrees, the joystick movements were translated perfectly. No soldering necessary!
perhaps the license fees are small enough they can still sell them for 22$. maybe they kick back 1$ per unit. it's more than atari/nintendo are making from those games today anyway.