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The NES has very different graphics and sound hardware compared to the Atari systems and the results were generally acknowledged to be pretty lackluster.Ĭurt Vendel of Legacy Engineering/Syzygy Company designed the original Flashback but did not have enough time to implement a more faithful solution. It supported 15 Atari 2600 and 5 Atari 7800 games, but recreated them using a NES-on-a-Chip. People liked the small size of the system and its price, but it did a poor job of recreating the games which it was designed to play. The original Atari Flashback suffered from mixed reviews. This review may be 12 years too late, but I could not let this opportunity pass without comment. In this blog post, let me describe the system, its capabilities and talk about its included games and its legacy. The box was marked at $24.99, but the seal seemed to be still intact, so the purchase was a no-brainer for me. Even though I already had a light-sixer 2600 and a Harmony Cartridge, I still wanted one of these.

This mini-console with its built in games had interested me ever since it first game out. While browsing in one of my local thrift stores, I encountered an item I had been wanting for a long time, the Atari Flashback 2.