At the same time, interest in retro gaming—the foundation all these new games were built atop—is soaring sky-high. It features a woodgrain-like body design that mirrors the woodgrain look on the original Atari 2600 console.

Given all the mistakes that had been made with these consoles by this point, I was a little surprised more versions would follow, but if there had to be, I hoped Atari either corrected the custom 2600-on-a-chip, or dumped both it and the people responsible for it and went with someone else.The overall shape of the console is the same, too, including the signature raised back half where the buttons lie. I also discovered Crystal Castles, a really cool game where you collect gems while exploring different castles. My only criticisms are it looks a bit small and plasticky as compared to the original unit it is based on and secondly I was disappointed that it does not connect to your tv with a HDMI cable but a much poorer quality audio cable.

Including games primarily designed for 2-players ( Combat Two, Frog Pond, Space War) doesn't make much sense, and neither do questionable entries like Hangman, Human Cannonball (which was a running joke amongst my friends back then), Space War, and Wizard, being there was a limit of only 40 games. Pause, save and rewind support: In another feature seen earlier on the NES Classic, the Flashback 8 Gold will offer pause and resume and same game slots -- a welcome respite if you need a bathroom break while racking up a new personal best on Asteroids. With 120 classic games, this Atari Flashback 8 Gold will remember the good memories of the retro-gaming.

i Have a genuine Atari so when i play with the FB consoles i noticed, River raid have different colors and the game is a bit faster than the old version and the Pitfall 1 is also not the same. Video Checkers are included, but I personally don't remember playing them very much (and Video Chess runs so slowly, nobody would waste time playing it these days). You know you have to move fast and be accurate to shoot those, yeah well, thats not happening with wireless sticks, moving on.