Atari Nano Player Pro | Review & Comparison | Atari VCS/2600 Classics from My Arcade
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Atari® is a pioneer in the video game industry, responsible for some of the most iconic games of all time, including Pong®, Breakout®, and Asteroids®. Atari® was founded in 1972 and, with a rich history that spans over 50 years, is one of the oldest video game companies in the world. With its focus on innovative gameplay and cutting-edge technology, Atari® has always been at the forefront of the gaming industry.
FEATURES
• 75 video games.
• Officially Atari® licensed titles plus bonus games.
• Full color 2.4" screen.
• Intuitive user interface.
• Built-in speaker with volume control.
• Powered by either 4 AAA batteries (not included) or by a USB-C® cable (not included).
• Titles include Pong®, Asteroids®, Centipede®, Millipede®, Breakout®, Missile Command®, Tempest® and many more
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00:00 Little Brother Nano
01:45 Box & Contents
05:14 Hardware Tour
08:45 Power On
11:32 Gameplay
17:15 Bonus Games
19:27 Summary - Розваги
As a little bit of a tip, for people who want to get these Nano units, the screen is the same size as Nintendo’s Game & Watch units from a while ago, so you can use the same glass screen protectors on them.
It's and interesting option, but I've bought the Atari Micro Player and I'm totally happy with my choice!
Nice review. I share your assessment. It isn't really worth it unless you are simply collecting. I bought the Atari Pocket player Pro based on your video, so thanks. It is a great little handheld. But I think you are right about the pitch. You can change 2nd difficulty switch. When you are in the game, press the B button. And finally about that joystick double tap movement that you showed. It is also in the Pocket Player Pro and it drives me crazy. Thankfully it does not do that in the games. From another GenX grown up, thanks for your great videos.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don't mind the screen tearing on my mega man pocket player pro. The fact that I have all 6 NES mega man games is awesome
I don't mind tiny screens, but I prefer the pocket player type versions (as far as actually playing these type of mini arcades in general) The nano would be a shelf collection version for me. I mention "would be" in future tense, because I'm getting closer to possibly finding a house for and my brother, and I hope to finally have enough room to collect items like these eventually. I love GXG dearly, but following you guys the past few years has been an exercise in patience and avoiding fomo, with all these fantastic mini arcades, heh. But you guys give me something to look foward to, so I appreciate the continued education on these type of devices. Always interesting. Have a good weekend, GXG!
Thanks, Miss So - awesome weekend to you, too!
I'd recently bought an Atari GSP at my local Meijer and enjoy the variety of games on it, so it's a pass on the Nano Player Pro.
Size always matters with screens to a point. To small make my eyes strain, the bigger handhelds offer a way better experience. Even if you have good vision.
That's crazy that it contains extra NES games. I'm gonna look into this one.🎉😮
Great review!
I really appreciate budget options like this
Great Stuff, as always!
Thank you! Cheers!
Kinda wish they went to the mini. Those were the sweet spot in the view vs storage size.
Mini as in the larger player?
An interesting video, a cute device. Won’t get one, if they come to the UK. PS I keep my instructions, just in case I need it.
Good news - if you won't get one, it won't matter if they make it to the UK! 😜
I'm quite familiar with Metal Mech. It was published by Jaleco for the NES. In terms of play length that game is pretty decent in size. The last stage is quite hard though.
I almost got the Atari 50 pocket player pro when I was out of town. The problem was the game selection.
There wasn't enough of the ones I liked to get me to spend the 40 to 50 bucks.
However 🙂 for someone that isn't as picky with Atari 2600 games, the pocket player pro and other versions are great too.
@12:18 That left-to-right asymmetry in how the screen "fades out" (when you tilt the device) is a bizarre feature of _all_ of My Arcade's current generation hardware (including the Pac Man pocket player, Galaga pocket player, etc.). I assume that screen was designed for technical devices, scientific equipment, etc., and to give "blacker blacks" in contrast to a simple text / number / graph readout -that is just what it looks like to me. I mean… it clearly wasn't designed to be a cellphone screen (whereas, at this scale, most are).
Seems like it would be pretty easy to make a riser for those to make them appear like a full arcade cabinet.
Something I found out with the Micro Player is that, for Atari games, the B-button functions as the second difficulty switch. I assume this is the case across the Nano and Pocket pkayers too.
Well, I'll be. Good to know. I wonder if that was mentioned in the instructions I threw away! 😉
Hey Jon it’s Jayden my Atari micro player. Pro is working again I just had to get a replacement.
Great to hear!
Imagine if they made the Pico for this Atari50 unit!? It would be unplayable, like most of those Pico units. It was a nice idea, good price point, but not effective with playability. The Nano Player isn't worth the $10 difference in price, between the game play, the audio, the visuals, and the bonus games being less. Now a Nano Tetris might work better.
Too small for my eyes.... Good as a part of a collecton or a decoration of some sort, great video as always!
Thanks for watching!
Did they ever release an Atari Pico Player? I have only seen the Data East one (with BurgerTime) and the Jaleco Sports one.
Nope. The Pico seems to be effectively discontinued.
My Arcade should release a Super Breakout/Breakout LCD game with an actual Paddle Controller, using the 2600 versions of these games and the same design as the Atari Super Breakout LCD Prototype from the 1980’s…..I want an actual Microvision-like Super-Breakout/Breakout LCD handheld with a built-in Paddle Controller to come to market, and cost between 30$-55$ CAD……It can be called a Super Breakout Paddle Player Pro……
Hey Jon you should try F22 it’s really fun I like it it’s Jayden
I have a ambernic rg350p and it's basically what the Atari 50 should be but the Atari 50 handheld is 50 bucks cheaper.
How often are you suppose to change the batteries for these mini arcade machines?
Whenever they get weak. No prescribed duration.
Speaking of Nano players, does the Galaga Nano player still have Galaxian? (Also, could you do a comparison of the My Arcade Atari 50 and the World's Smallest Atari 2600?)
It does, indeed. amz.run/7K2G
The Mega Man player pro has a pico this time too, I have that. It seems this time only Mega Man has the micro, nano , and pico so far.
That's right. The Mega Man will be the last Pico for the foreseeable future (maybe ever).
@@GenXGrownUp I just got a 2023 My Arcade Tetris pico and nano players from some store on eBay. It's weird I have like all 47 My arcades that have come out so far and I have never seen these two. They have different front graphics than the Tetris Pro player that just came out, and the Nano has 200+ games while the Pico has 100+ games. I don't know if these were early prototypes or dealer samples I can't find any info on it. I also ordered a different Space Invaders that the shop was selling that should be here this week.
In my opinion I feel like they add more games because they software they use can hold extra games and coding for those extra games.
By the way did they add Atari PAC Man into any of those?
If it can hold extra (which it can), why not more Atari?!
@@GenXGrownUpyeah.
I also tried the 13/0 missle command easter egg on my Atari flashback 8 and it's real!
But now my screen looks like a pancake now like the classics.
@@GenXGrownUpI also think they don't add extra for marketing purposes because if they added more I personally think it would be more expensive and less people would buy it
Now you must complete the trifecta of Atari 50 arcade products and snatch up an Arcade1Up Atari 50 cabinet. ;)
Would that be a quad-fecta? Is that a thing? 😉
@@GenXGrownUpWell, I was excluding the Pocket Player and just lumping the arcade-shaped stuff together. :P
@@FormulaFox Ah.
Oh great, more atari 😂
Hint for manufacturers, your core audience for these retro games are using readers now, offer magnified options so the old timers can see these mini screens or just make them bigger!
Never tried missile command on variation 13
Yars revenge is fun
I want you to play F-22 Jon because it’s a great game that is on the Atari 2600 My arcade micro player, pro it’s Jayden
Now there are 9,672 ways to play 2600 Asteroids
Have a list? 😜
Pico-8: easily in the top ten of the 9,671. ;-)
Screen tearing: it can be invisible for games with a black background and no scrolling (games in which "the camera" remains "fixed", so to speak) but _even within the 2600 library_ there are examples of games that are ruined by screen tearing on this unit (e.g., _Solaris)._ I would just point out that this very youtube channel (GenXGrownUp) has really reviewed _A LOT_ of better alternatives, some of them from five years ago, that were officially licensed in the past; and there are also "grey market" alternatives that are currently being shipped out of China… and apparently GenX is too morally pure to review them… but, alas, I am not. ;-)
"Morally pure," eh? 😜
I can’t believe there still using batteries for these little game mini players / you would think by now they would be using solar power / lol 😆
I think they should start eliminating these LCD screens they just don’t look good anymore / & start using OLED screens
Bigger than the Tiny Arcade keychain machines. I don't understand why they don;t have multiple versions of a game. Why not have the 2600, 7800, 5200 and arcade of Asteroids. Why just the 2600? Tired of just seeing 2600 games.
Hey Brother to answer your question about the games in the little portable systems a lot of those were put on smaller files to fit the Nano I'm sure there's a way now you can hack the system but you have to look at the things you want to put on there and the files make sure they fit the deal for me though I would never play nothing that small because I think I would break it in the first try the buttons are way too small
Hey Jon it’s Jayden what time do you go to bed
Later than I should. 😉
I feel the nano is nothing more than a decoration.
Nano isn’t for me. It’s too small. I’ll stick with the micro or pro. Kind of bummed no basic math… NOT 😂
SIZE MATTERS: unlike truly "pocketable" devices, these _My Arcade_ devices have smaller screens, but *aren't actually more portable.* You really are better off with a "grey market" device like the Trimui Smart (for Atari 2600, specifically, and more broadly as well).
"Swordquest, these are worthless." - Fixed that for you.
While i think these little units are cute and it's great that they're introducing modern audiences to the Atari 2600, I can't help noticing that probably half the game list is shovelware. Honestly, the Swordquest games are garbage. They're not even games in the traditional sense, they're just digital clue packages for a long-forgotten contest. And then stuff like Basic Math? Who in their right mind would actually play that? They often leave off some of the best Atari games, and rarely include third party games from Activision, Imagic, Parker Brothers, etc.