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.

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Alas

[crumbz]

If it only contained Pitfall....although Yar's Revenge was a very good game.

Activision too

[Anonymous Coward]

I just sawand ad for an Activision one too. It had 10 games, some of which were Freeway, Pitfall, Spider Fighter, and River Raid.

It was only like $40

Sounds cool, but ..

[cje]

.. why?

For $20 you can go to a pawnshop and pick up a used Sega Dreamcast machine. You can then go to DC Emulation and download StellaDC (an Atari 2600 emulator for the Dreamcast) along with a ROM pack of almost 300 public domain (read: legal) games, including Adventure, Pitfall, and most of the classics. Then you can sit back and kill a rainy/snowy day by playing all of the games that used to consume you as a kid.

The Dreamcast is perfect for something like this.

Re:Sounds cool, but ..

[x mani x]

You're borderline trolling, IMHO, but I'll bite:

(a) Dreamcast controller != Atari joystick
(b) Used Dreamcast != $20, sorry.
(c) Mention downloading StellaDC and Atari rom packs, and burning it with a special program so your DC can boot it will make most people go "huh?".
(c') If they don't go "huh?", they probably have better things to do than find a used Dreamcast and do all of the above.

Seriously now, this thing is 20 bucks. Dreamcast shmeemcast.

-Mani

What about sound?

[Whispers_in_the_dark]

The specs are a little thin. I see an RCA cable for video, but what about audio? I mean, things still need to go *boom*, don't they?

Re:I remember

[Jon Abbott]

I've rarely needed to blow on Atari 2600 cartidges to make them work... I still own a functional Atari 2600, and even today don't need to mess around with the cartidges to make them work. Now NES cartidges, on the other hand, are a different story altogether.

Re:10 in 1? Try 180 in 1.

[poot_rootbeer]

I bought a "Polystation III 8800-in-1" from a guy on the street for $25 a while ago, and just as I expected it was a knockoff of the nearly-20-year-old Famicom console (the Japanese version of our NES). It's a cheap-feeling copy of the PSOne console design, with Atari-style joystick ports and and extremely realistic-looking light gun.

And the 8,800 built in games were actually the same 16 or so games over and over again, with various insignificant hexedits providing the standard variation (ooh, I can start on 1-2 in SMB!).

I've also seen Famicom clones designed to look (sort of) like Xboxen and PS2's. The guy selling them wanted $59 each, so I passed.

It also has a Famicom cartridge port where you'd put the CD on a real PSOne. I wandered all over Manhattan's Chinatown trying to find some bootleg carts to try it with, or at least an NES-to-Famicom adapter so I could play the games I own on it, but sadly came up with very little. Few places had gaming systems at all, mostly the knockoff-N64-controller hardware. Only one place I went to had pirate software, and it was multicarts for the GB Advance.

Re:5 pounds?

[Anonymous Coward]

Exagerating a bit aren't we?

Dude, if there wasn't a problem with the size of the original joystick, Microsoft wouldn't have introduced a new, smaller version.