Now, I give this unit credit because it’s one of the first, if not the very first of its kind however, it does lack a little bit of authenticity but that’s not even really the biggest problem with it. Now compare that to the authentic Atari 2600 version. For example, check out the victory scene here in “Yars’ Revenge”. It’s a single chip that emulates the original Nintendo and somebody spent some time coding these games to look very similar to the Atari versions. Yes, believe it or not, it actually uses what’s called a NOAC, or a Nintendo-on-a-chip. Ironically, what it does have it is one of these. These games look pretty close to the originals, but this thing does not actually have any Atari technology inside. The Joystick very much resembles the original joysticks that shipped with the Atari 2600, so it does have some of the more popular games of the era such as “Adventure”, or “Asteroids”, “Centipede”, “Missile Command”, and “Yars’ Revenge”. It was made in 2002 by Jakks Pacific and has 10 built-in games.
I’m going to start with the Atari 2600 Joystick. Popular units and I’m going to show you each one and tell you whether I think it’s junk or treasure. There are probably 30 or 40 of these that have been on the market over the last 10 years. Some of these are designed to emulate vintage video games but others are more similar to the arcades.
JAKKS PACIFIC ATARI HACK TV
For those that aren’t familiar, these sort of games usually run on batteries and they plug straight into a TV or monitor and they’re completely self-contained. Plus, I already had a few in my collection. I ended up buying two original Nintendos and some games but I also ended up with several of these little plug ‘n’ play TV games that I bought for $1 apiece.
As you can see, they had quite a selection here and most of these systems were $10 apiece. This place apparently belonged to an avid video game collector. Recently, I went to an estate sale in Waxahachie, Texas.
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