You can get these journals at Amazon, here. Although I only have the Asteroids journal, I can say that the fit and finish on these is excellent, with a nice glossy cover on thick stock and substantial writing pages. It’s definitely worth the modest asking price of around $10, despite...
As reported by Polygon, Tastemakers is releasing a new Arcade1Up series of 4 foot tall home arcade machines for just $399 each. Set to come out this fall, the only catch is that these 3/4 scale arcade machines have to be self assembled, although Tastemakers is promising that the process is a...
Adventure The Adventure Journal Officially licensed and designed to look like the original game cartridge, ADVENTURE: The Atari 2600 Game Journal features endpapers with color screenshots of gameplay (including an Easter egg planted by the designer) as well as an insert with instructions from the original game manual. With black-edged pages and...
While the Atari 800 is generally known as the “hot one” of the Atari 8-bit line, the Atari 1200XL is almost always considered the one with the best keyboard in function, if not in reliability. After liquidating most of my collection, the Atari 800, Atari 1200XL, and Atari 800XE were...
In my latest book, Atari Flashback: The Essential Companion: we cover how to play 67 different first party Atari 2600 games, including Fun Facts, Tip & Tricks, and more. In addition, the first chapter covers Atari 2600 history, and the second chapter covers the current line-up of AtGames’ Atari...
To help clear up any confusion, yes, the Atari Flashback 8 Gold: Activision Edition, is now available. This is a plug and play console with a generous selection of classic Atari 2600 games with great new features like HDMI output, two 2.4Ghz wireless controllers styled after the originals, save states,...
For the longest time it’s been accepted more or less as fact that the Atari 7800 sold 3.77 million consoles (recently lowered to 3.5 million on Wikipedia with no source), with a large proportion of that in the US (or sometimes indicated as JUST the US numbers). Similarly, the Sega...
What follows is the official finalized game list for the retail version of the 2017 release of the Atari Flashback 8 Gold: Activision Edition, which will join the other AtGames products at retailers everywhere later this month after having a period of exclusive availability at Walmart.com. The all-new Atari Flashback...
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