Atari Flashback

Atari Flashback

Console: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Players: 2
Co-op: No
ESRB: Not Rated
Type: Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter, Sports
Atari Flashback titlescreenAtari Flashback screenshot

The Atari Flashback was released in 2004. The console resembled an Atari 7800 in appearance and came with a pair of controllers which resembled those of the Atari 7800, though they were slightly smaller. The system had twenty games built-in, all originally developed by Warner Communication's Atari Inc. and Atari Corp. for the 2600 and 7800 game systems. The games which originally required analog paddle controllers were made to work with the included joysticks. The Atari Flashback was based on "NES-on-a-chip" hardware, not resembling either of the Atari systems which the Flashback was supposed to represent (this was solved with the Flashback 2). As a result, the games it contained were ports and differed in varying degrees from the original games, and therefore the Flashback was unpopular with some purists.

Included games

Adventure
Air-Sea Battle
Battlezone
Breakout
Canyon Bomber
Crystal Castles
Gravitar
Haunted House
Millipede
Saboteur
Sky Diver
Solaris
Sprintmaster
Warlords
Yars' Revenge

Asteroids
Centipede
Desert Falcon
Charley Chuck’s Food Fight
Planet Smashers