Atari Flashback (2600)
I've been trying to get myself one of these for a while, but everyone wants silly money for them. However, this "untested" one came up on Vinted for a reasonable price, so I bought it. I already had the 7800 version, I wonder if they do a 5200 version???
It comes boxed, which is in a reasonable condition, it claims to have 100 games and two "wireless" joysticks included
Look at those people, look at them, see how happy they are while playing the Atari Flashback
Multi language so the sides of the box are text heavy
No vacuum formed plastic here
The unit is very light, it looks ok though, imported by Argos
The front has two Atari standard joystick ports, and the infrared receiver for the "wireless" joysticks
The sides are plain
Composite video and mono audio like most other plug and play TV games
The "wireless" joystick looks like the joystick from the Blaze Atari, but with a IR LED instead of a cable, and a smaller battery compartment
The second joystick looks the same without the buttons
This is the PSU that came with the console, I hope they didn't plug it in as it's clearly the wromg one, 28VDC!
Not sure what it came with originally, but the plug fits in the hole, so now I have two of these without the correct PSU, marvellous!
Update
I found the power supply for the Leap TV is the same as the power supply for the Flashback, so lets connect it up and explore
A brief view of colourbars, followed by a copyright screen, then into the menu, I couldn't find a small enough screwdriver to open the battery compartment for the "wireless" joystick, so a Spectravideo 318-102 (Quickshot II) will have to do for now
The Flashback version 6 has 100 games to choose from, they are arranged in alphabetical order over ten screens, you do get the box art and the genre of game for each selected game, but no instructions
Here is Yars' Revenge, I like this game
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