Cool unboxing! The box is beautiful, and the list of games are a blast! There are some games i wish is in the flashback (jawbreaker, pacman8k, donkey kong, namegame, haloween, entobed, bobby is going home...), but, maybe on flashback 9.
Excellent review as usual Willie! I have this one as well. Love it. I had some intermittent issues with the paddle controllers, but perhaps its me. Lol. Thanks again for the great review.
I was trying to pick one up last year, but couldnt for the love of me find any, BTW willie i needs a arcade usa t-shirt ;-) but it needs to say on the back " i`m with Willie "
Have you heard anything about this years edition possibly having an SD card slot? I'm waiting for that so I can put all the games in that I really want.
Yes, although there's a lot of built in games, it's still a shame they couldn't add it to this model because still missing many rarer titles from right after the crash, & when you add in the home brews, hacks, & reproductions, it's almost limitless. If uploading on an sd card is tedious, there's an individual on Ebay which is currently selling an sd card with just over a 1,000 games, of course there are some very similar titles, with different backgrounds included, but it's still a worthwhile collection at only about $22 with shipping. I got it for the portable Atari, and it's a great way to pick up rarity 6+ games and homebrews, even though of course paddle games are virtually impossible on the portable.
Activision has 130 games, Normal Gold edition 120 and there are more differences in the games lineup between the 2 I ended up getting both, but a year later the Flashback 9 Gold came out and has a SD Card slot on it so well worth the purchase.
Because Pitfall 2 used custom chips so it's hard to get running via Emulation unless said Emulator can emulate those chips, which given how lazy at games were. Wasn't going to happen
I bought one once and it turned out to be a dud and didnt work. Gamestop was really cool about it and gave me 20% more for my refund so I could get a different atari 8
No Pitfall II. Flashback Gold 9 has it, though. But, no paddles. Cheap screws, AtGames, for making us buy the paddles separately! I actually broke the World's Record for Grand Prix back in the day. The instruction manual told what the current World's Record was for quickest time to finish and said to take a picture of the TV screen and send it to them if you were to break the record. I did it without crashing once and at full speed. I think my time was 21 seconds. But, it was so long ago, I don't remember for sure. I do remember that I did break the World's Record but did not take a picture of the screen (regrettably) as I was only 11 or 12 at the time.
I bought atari flashback 8 and has very bad yostick. With normal yostick I was able to play kaboom for a while, but now its impossible. Also the resizing for wide tv looks terrible, only hdmi of 8 gold seems to work fine. Also when I was a kid I played mostly Atari 130XE NOT Atari 2600 so I see some terrible versions of some games here, the Atari 130XE versions were better. No idea what the hell are they thinking.
Ah, yes, Kaboom! Or as I call it, "Super Panic Attack Simulator." ;-)
SPAS 🙂
If it was on intellivision it would be called Super Pro Panic Attack. 🙂
Love the videos man...power to the 80s!!!
Yes! ATGames rules!!!
I have mine seen's early 2018 I was playing some games on it some awail ago. I wish games like mouse trap
Cool unboxing! The box is beautiful, and the list of games are a blast!
There are some games i wish is in the flashback (jawbreaker, pacman8k, donkey kong, namegame, haloween, entobed, bobby is going home...), but, maybe on flashback 9.
I’m also waiting for a sd card edition too
Excellent review as usual Willie! I have this one as well. Love it. I had some intermittent issues with the paddle controllers, but perhaps its me. Lol. Thanks again for the great review.
Stephen Cianci I think there's an issue with this unit and paddle controllers
seems like a cool little unit! like that it has the joystick port though.
great system i brought mine 4 months ago
I was trying to pick one up last year, but couldnt for the love of me find any, BTW willie i needs a arcade usa t-shirt ;-) but it needs to say on the back " i`m with Willie "
Gran canal. Nuevo suscriptor español.
Good review I enjoy mine But you didn't mention one other feature The Save state slots
Have you heard anything about this years edition possibly having an SD card slot? I'm waiting for that so I can put all the games in that I really want.
Yes, although there's a lot of built in games, it's still a shame they couldn't add it to this model because still missing many rarer titles from right after the crash, & when you add in the home brews, hacks, & reproductions, it's almost limitless. If uploading on an sd card is tedious, there's an individual on Ebay which is currently selling an sd card with just over a 1,000 games, of course there are some very similar titles, with different backgrounds included, but it's still a worthwhile collection at only about $22 with shipping. I got it for the portable Atari, and it's a great way to pick up rarity 6+ games and homebrews, even though of course paddle games are virtually impossible on the portable.
Awesome review Will! What's the difference between the Activison and the standard version?
Activision has 130 games, Normal Gold edition 120 and there are more differences in the games lineup between the 2 I ended up getting both, but a year later the Flashback 9 Gold came out and has a SD Card slot on it so well worth the purchase.
@@KISSFan1977 thanks Tim! Thays good to know 😀
I'm sad. What should an Activision Edition do if Pitfall 2 is not included? Anyway, thank you for your video!
Because Pitfall 2 used custom chips so it's hard to get running via Emulation unless said Emulator can emulate those chips, which given how lazy at games were. Wasn't going to happen
When I use the joystick left or right to select games, it will only move a whole page over... how do I make it only move 1 game over at a time?
Dont recall, I sold this off and dont have it anymore. Maybe the instructions will say?
Il est possible d'ajouter des jeux ?
Can you add rom files with the sd card?
I dont recall, this video was made 5 years ago and I no longer have it.
Why no Atari Space Invaders again?
Its on the regular Flashback Gold 8
why didnt you show demon attack?
lot of games I did not show :P
I bought one once and it turned out to be a dud and didnt work. Gamestop was really cool about it and gave me 20% more for my refund so I could get a different atari 8
No Pitfall II. Flashback Gold 9 has it, though. But, no paddles. Cheap screws, AtGames, for making us buy the paddles separately! I actually broke the World's Record for Grand Prix back in the day. The instruction manual told what the current World's Record was for quickest time to finish and said to take a picture of the TV screen and send it to them if you were to break the record. I did it without crashing once and at full speed. I think my time was 21 seconds. But, it was so long ago, I don't remember for sure. I do remember that I did break the World's Record but did not take a picture of the screen (regrettably) as I was only 11 or 12 at the time.
All my favourite Atari games & I see NONE of them on there such as JawBreaker, Obelix, or Galaxian.
I bought atari flashback 8 and has very bad yostick. With normal yostick I was able to play kaboom for a while, but now its impossible. Also the resizing for wide tv looks terrible, only hdmi of 8 gold seems to work fine. Also when I was a kid I played mostly Atari 130XE NOT Atari 2600 so I see some terrible versions of some games here, the Atari 130XE versions were better. No idea what the hell are they thinking.