Atari and PQUBE will be releasing two new Atari products this holiday season. The first of which is a small handheld, seen above, which has a 2.4 inch screen, and will come with 50 Atari 2600 games packed in. Some of the selection of titles include Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Sword Quest, and Pong. The full list of games is below. This little portable gaming device will be called the Atari Retro Handheld, and is set to retail for £34.99.

1. 3D Tic-Tac-Toe (31 in 1)
2. Adventure
3. Air-Sea Battle
4. Asteroids ®
5. Black Jack
6. Bowling
7. Breakout ®
8. Canyon Bomber ®
9. Casino
10. Centipede ®
11. Circus Atari ®
12. Crystal Castles ®
13. Demons to Diamonds ™
14. Desert Falcon ®
15. Dodge 'em
16. Double Dunk
17. Fun With Numbers
18. Golf
19. Gravitar ®
20. Haunted House ®
21. Home Run
22. Human Cannonball ™
23. Maze Craze
24. Millipede ®
25. Miniature Golf ®
26. Missile Command ®
27. Night Driver ™
28. Off the Wall
29. Pong - Video Olympics
30. Quadrun ™
31. Radar Lock ™
32. Realsports Football ®
33. Realsports Tennis ®
34. Realsports Volleyball ®
35. Sprintmaster
36. Steeplechase
37. Stellar Track ™
38. Street Racer
39. Submarine Commander
40. Super Baseball
41. Super Breakout ®
42. Super Football
43. Swordquest: Earthworld ™
44. Swordquest: Fireworld ™
45. Swordquest: Waterworld ™
46. Tempest ®
47. Video Checkers
48. Video Chess
49. Video Pinball
50. Yar's Revenge ®

Another product, the Atari Retro Plug and Play Joystick was also revealed, appearing as a classic 2600 joystick, with an A/V out cable to connect to your TV. An additional HDMI adapter will also be available. This will cost £24.99, and offers the same games as before. Both of these retro throwbacks will be purchasable on Funstock Retro, where they'll ship out on October 19th.

Source: Handheld
Source: Joystick

 

[JoeBloggs777]

oh dear, nothing like nostalgia, I remember playing on the wooden effect case one back in the late 70's !, space invaders was the only good game
this is no snes for graphics and sound effects, not much better than a sinclair zx81

but its part of gaming history

 

[regnad]

That was my first console.

Going back and playing it decades later, I still enjoy Adventure and Yars Revenge, but that’s it.

Honestly anyone with a GBA/DS/3DS already has a handheld that can play the whole library. Why get this thing?

The joystick is kind of cool, but AV out? Why not just have one of those switch boxes you screw onto the UHF screws then?

 

[Cyan]

the screen is so small... or the controller bigger than I think.
good there's a A/V Out, hdmi adapter is included or sold separately? I hope the cable is long enough.
edit:
yeah, the joystick looks more fun than the handheld !

 

[Deleted User]

Swordquest Water world? Wasn't Water and Air unreleased?

Come in Atari, if you're gonna do it, finish the epic quest that was Swordquest!

 

[PabloMK7]

Will be ™
so fun ®
to play ™
those games ®
once again. ®™

 

[duwen]

I'm part of the generation of original gamers that played on Atari consoles in the 70's ...but... meh...
While an important part of gaming history there's very little enjoyment to be had from many of these games.
The handheld itself looks quite nice, and if it turns out it can be hacked to bolster the included games with some more playable offerings it might still be worthy of getting hold of... but, tbh, I prefer to play all 16bit and earlier systems on original hardware.

 

[netovsk]

No H.E.R.O.

No River Raid

No Enduro

No Robot Tank

D.O.A. for me.

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Not even Pitfall FFS!!!

 

[Bladexdsl]

oh look it's another one of these things...

 

[Hells Malice]

I just want those sweet coins

Atari games are still surprisingly fun though. The handheld looks too small, though it's hard to really tell for sure. But the device you can plug in to HDMI is pretty cool.

 

[Issac]

Looks neat, though I've never properly played any Atari game :o
I just never know where to start, since so many "best of" lists seem to be tainted by those rose colored nostalgia glasses. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with those list for that reason! But as someone with NO previous history with the games, those lists are often not tailored for me, but for those looking back and remembering the fun they had at the time.

 

[spotanjo3]

Oh my gosh.. No pac man ? Disappointmented. Thats ok, I dont care about Atari anyway. Grew up with it, thought.

 

[AmandaRose]

If it had Activision titles on it then i would have bought it just for river raid and pitfall1 and 2.

 

[K3Nv2]

the screen is so small... or the controller bigger than I think.
good there's a A/V Out, hdmi adapter is included or sold separately? I hope the cable is long enough.
edit:
yeah, the joystick looks more fun than the handheld !

Would the games actually look better on a bigger display? Forgot all these flat panel displays. I wanna see a portable handhald that actually looks like a old CRT tv. That's where the moneys at.

 

[leon315]

For 70s: you are too old to play videogames

 

[supergamer368]

Can I make the obligatory E.T. joke I make every time Atari makes the front page? Or is everyone tired of that now? Anyways, this looks kinda neat I guess, but hopefully there will be some way (official/legal or not) to add whatever games you want. Including E.T.

 

[Cyan]

CRT with scanline effect, would be nice
some emulators do that scanline effect, why not these remake?

 

[Kourin]

Isn't the Sword Quest series pointless because both the competition ended and you don't get the comic book with it?

 

[Song of storms]

Swordquest Water world? Wasn't Water and Air unreleased?

Come in Atari, if you're gonna do it, finish the epic quest that was Swordquest!

Water world was released. You're confusing it with the event that never happened.

 

[ViDeOmAnCiNi]

No E.T.? I'm out

(At least there is Adventure...after RPO they'd better include that... lol)