“Impossible Mission”… Synthesized Voice: Another visitor. I won’t show them all to you but hereĪre a few. Another great thing about this is it has… the 20 games it has are actually all pretty good, important games that were very popular on the system. Now what I mean by that is it actually executes the original code so these games are more or less unmodified. So, this thing is a real Commodore 64 inside. It starts off with a very 1980s BBS intro type look to it with your selection of games. I could do a whole episode on this thing alone so I’ll try to keep it short. It was made in 2004 by Mammoth Toys and DC Studios. Next on the list is the Commodore 64 DTV. The joystick itself is actually built really well and can take a lot of heavy use – unlike the Atari Joystick – and I definitely give this unit a thumbs up. So, it also has “Galaxian”, and “Rally X”, and “Dig Dug”, and lastly is “Bosconian” – probably the only game here that I don’t personally care for. I’ve heard some people say that there are slight variances in the behavior of the ghosts and whatnot from the original but I do not believe the casual gamer will notice. Now, keep in mind this is not intended to mimic any specific game console but it does mimic the original arcade pretty well. It only has 6 games on it but unlike the Atari, all of the games It came out in 2003 and was also made by Jakks Pacific. Next on the list is the Namco Pacman game. Despite that, though, I am still gonna give it a thumbs up. There’s nothing from Midway or Namco or Activision. I think the biggest problem is that it doesn’t really have any software outside of Atari. 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. 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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