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Ten-in-1 Atari Joystick Available

Posted by michael on from the no-space-invaders dept.

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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  1. Activision too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

  2. Sounds cool, but .. by cje · · Score: 5, Interesting

    .. 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.

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    1. Re:Sounds cool, but .. by x+mani+x · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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