ATARI 7800+ Retro Console Launches with Modern Quality-of-Life Features and Vast Library of Atari 2600 and 7800 Games

[Tsing]

This new machine is a replica of the Atari 7800 from 1986, a pivotal year in Atari’s history given it was their first machine to enable backwards compatibility.

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[Space_Ranger]

So 120 for the console and you have to buy the games on top of it all? No thank you.. I'll pass..

 

[DrezKill]

I had seen this the other day:

I had never heard of this, so I had to look it up. It's not an FPGA console. It uses emulation. Booooooooo.

Apparently it uses these:

Stella: "A Multi-Platform Atari 2600 VCS Emulator"

stella-emu.github.io

ProSystem Emulator v1.3

ProSystem Emulator v1.3 : Atari 7800 Emulator by Greg Stanton

gstanton.github.io

(source: https://gizmodo.com/atari-7800-review-2000528650)

But you don't even get to use something like save states!

"You do have to come to terms with the fact that this is still basically a form of emulation. Purists might scoff at the idea of running these games on anything but the true-blue system or even FPGA, but that’s beyond the scope of this console." (gizmodo)

Oh is it? Well I hope the emulation is accurate as all f*ck then. But if I am plugging real cartridges into a system, it needs to be either the real system or an FPGA version. Cuz I dunno, I'm leaning towards NES/SNES Classic being better emulation consoles (which is kinda sad cuz the emulation with the built-in emulators in those things ain't the best), and especially the Genesis Mini, since M2 did the emulation for that one.

 

[Niner51]

But you don't even get to use something like save states!

Wow, and no thank you.