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

 

[duwen]

For 70s: you are too old to play videogames

Wtf are you talking about?!?
Was that a response to me being old enough to remember the Atari VCS when it was first released?
If so, there's a large percentage of gamers out there proving you very wrong.
Come back when you've got enough life experience to know that no one else's opinion should ever stop you doing anything you enjoy.

 

[slaphappygamer]

For 70s: you are too old to play videogames

Nope. Video games are a hobby just like music or art. I play Kirby on the switch with my kid. It’s a blast!

 

[XDel]

I just want my hand held Jaguar to play AVP on.

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For 70s: you are too old to play videogames

You're just intimidated by gamers who can play without in game tutorials, cheats, guides, Internet tech support, and sometimes even manuals for that matter.

 

[SuperDan]

Yesssssssss .. Not Really Nahhhhhhhhhh
Im OK

 

[Ericthegreat]

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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

S different about this, from the 50 other things like this that have existed. Everyone's trying to copy the nes mini success.

 

[HEADBOY]

Even though Atari is way before my time, I honestly still enjoy playing Kaboom on the Android version of the Atari collection! Hey does anyone remember Game room on the Xbox 360/PC?

 

[Captain_N]

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.

I started with the atari 2600 also. still got it and the games. Once the NES came out, the atari just felt meh. Im not one to only like the new. I can adjust back to the retro style and then back to modern games like its nothing. frame rates and graphics dont bother me. The atari is a bit different tho. The nes is about as far back as i go. I never did any Amiga or c64.

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

I started with the atari 2600 also. still got it and the games. Once the NES came out, the atari just felt meh. Im not one to only like the new. I can adjust back to the retro style and then back to modern games like its nothing. frame rates and graphics dont bother me. The atari is a bit different tho. The nes is about as far back as i go. I never did any Amiga or c64.

I had the 2600 for a long time before the NES came out, and having played a LOT of the games. I can honestly say unless you have someone to ditch their rose tinted glasses and look at things objectively and say "These games are still fun, but they represent like 1 in 1,000 games for the system"

The neat thing about the game crash is I remember picking up brand new Atari 2600 games at the store for like 50 cents. So I could take like 5 bucks and buy 10 new games, and I did that a lot.

In my opinion if I had the entire 2600 catalog to pick from I am not sure I could pick 50 games that would still be worth playing today...

Asteroids, Moon Patrol, Yars Revenge, Berserk, Jungle Hunt, Combat (with a friend), Missile Command, and honestly that's about it... and to be frank I would just emulate these. The concept of buying a machine to play this like few kilobytes worth of games is just weird.

I am sure I missed a few more but just trying to make that short list strained my brain lol

 

[KingVamp]

I mean, I can see why they are doing this, but it is kind of weird since they are meant to be working on a new console.

 

[Nerdtendo]

While I'm wayyyy to young to have enjoyed the 2600 when it came out (an 02 kid myself), my earliest gaming memories consist of plug n play pac-man, and an Atari 2600. Honestly, I can barely remember the 2600 (I was probably 3 or 4), but I know we at least had breakout and my dad was much better at it than me.

Do we have a 2600 emulator for Switch yet? I'd like to tap into my deep childhood memories.

 

[duwen]

I started with the atari 2600 also. still got it and the games. Once the NES came out, the atari just felt meh. Im not one to only like the new. I can adjust back to the retro style and then back to modern games like its nothing. frame rates and graphics dont bother me. The atari is a bit different tho. The nes is about as far back as i go. I never did any Amiga or c64.

The ZX Spectrum is as far back as I go - I still have the one my parents got me for Christmas '82!
...but that's a 'home micro'... As far as consoles go, I've never been a big NES fan, but I still regularly play Sega Master System - a massively under rated system

 

[JoeBloggs777]

The ZX Spectrum is as far back as I go - I still have the one my parents got me for Christmas '82!
...but that's a 'home micro'... As far as consoles go, I've never been a big NES fan, but I still regularly play Sega Master System - a massively under rated system

I go back to the ZX81 when Sinclair sold the bits as a kit and you made it yourself, mine didn't work straight away, i remember they sent me 2 processors instead of a processor and rom chip when they sent me the rom it worked i still have it, but the oldest one i have is a Sinclair zx80 !

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just looking on ebay at the price of a zx 81, I've also got a jupiter ace, it should be in A1 condition, someone wants £1200 on ebay for one

 

[DarthDub]

Is the screen smaller than a Game Boy Micro? Way too small for me.

 

[PalindromicBreadLoaf]

Never owned a 2600 in my life, but have seen footage of some of the games. Might decide to order on of these for myself.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I feel like if you wanted to play Atari games on the go and not use a hacked portable, you might as well just buy one of the Atari Flashback Portable things they released a couple years ago. It's pretty much the same cost now (on Amazon, anyways), and you can literally add games to it with an SD card as stock.

Same for the plug and play console thing, they have like 10 or so different "Atari Flashback" consoles that have 100+ games you can find for peanuts in thrift stores and such, and the newer ones have wireless controllers and HDMI output if you want to pay a bit more.

WhatS different about this, from the 50 other things like this that have existed. Everyone's trying to copy the nes mini success.

Except Atari was literally the first company to produce these modern "plug and play" consoles that just emulated classic games, and has been fairly successfully with all of them way before Nintendo shat out the NES Mini. Atari (or Atgames, to be more specific) has been pumping them out almost yearly since 2011.

 

[Ericthegreat]

I feel like if you wanted to play Atari games on the go and not use a hacked portable, you might as well just buy one of the Atari Flashback Portable things they released a couple years ago. It's pretty much the same cost now (on Amazon, anyways), and you can literally add games to it with an SD card as stock.

Same for the plug and play console thing, they have like 10 or so different "Atari Flashback" consoles that have 100+ games you can find for peanuts in thrift stores and such, and the newer ones have wireless controllers and HDMI output if you want to pay a bit more.


Except Atari was literally the first company to produce these modern "plug and play" consoles that just emulated classic games, and has been fairly successfully with all of them way before Nintendo shat out the NES Mini. Atari (or Atgames, to be more specific) has been pumping them out almost yearly since 2011.

I never knew atgames was Atari.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I never knew atgames was Atari.

They aren't, but Atari original produced the Atari Flashback consoles, and then licensed the product out to AtGames for the more modern releases.

Regardless, Nintendo wasn't the one who started this plug and play trend, to claim Atari is trying to "copy" Nintendo in this case is just wrong.