Highlights
Quality
Great connectivity at the rear for your modern hdmi tv, yet the toggles and buttons on the front are just as a i remember them.
Honestly the feeling that clunk of the cartridge gives you as you insert it, and power the console on is hard to beat.
Garbled graphics and noises for every game.
Update after 4 weeks, it has stopped working and needs to be returned.
Price
Managed to jump on a sale price saving me £34 which is a great.
£4 well spent on amazon and i have a working cartridge of the activision classic, and perhaps the best game of all time, river raid.
Packaging/appearance
Well packaged, and a thing of beauty when opened this is a near perfect replica in modern materials and slightly smaller.
Competitiveness
Also, atari has published a list of compatible cartridges: check before you bid on anything on ebay.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Just abit of fun but obviously lacking todays technology very odd selection of games
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Important there are a lot of customer reviews here that complain that their 2600 wont load all their games
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Over the years the cartridge contacts often build up a layer of dirt
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I got plenty of games to load that originally refused to
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Obviously there are some games that will fail after after a few decades but i only found 2 out of around 180 that just wouldnt work after repeatedly cleaning
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There are some issues with pal games when using the firmware that comes out of the box displaying incorrect colours or having sprites missing but the beta update is available through the atari age forums which fixes them
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This should be officially available once its gone through some more testing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Atari are currently rereleasing some classic 2600 7800 carts along with some new ones