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my first game system was the Atari 2600 I had a lot of retro game systems so this size HDMI can play 720p not that Atari games are high resolution but you could connect it to your TV more easily there are a hundred twenty games in this there is there a pair of wireless controllers and you can save resume and rewind games this is a lot like the Sega Genesis flashback made by the same company so let's take a look at the box it's got nicer packaging and a bunch of the games are listed back here I don't even remember a lot of these games but there's link by Activision there is pitfall which is awesome so Activision games are on here see quest see battle real sports games all of them it seems star master sword quest games I remember those tempest warlords asteroids so a lot of the classics let's take a look at what's inside the box this is the most expensive of the flashback consoles they're actually a couple of Atari consoles that they're selling right now this is the only one that's HD so you got an Atari poster that games is really into putting the the posters in the box which is kind of cool this is the flash pancake which has a very similar graphic design to be Sega one with the same white grid which I'm not so wild about there's a fall which feels like a bit of an afterthought none of the cool Atari art that I remember that they've created great art books with but anyway if you want a kind of okay Atari poster here's one with crease marks and instructions on the back inside the box you've got the little Atari console this is very small and it doesn't okay this doesn't really look like an Atari console that I remember it's like kind of with sort of wood grain that's a sticker and a bunch of buttons so you've got difficulty buttons select buttons start power and to authentic game controller ports so both of these here you could plug in old controllers if you have them or use the wireless ones the HDMI is on the side which is kind of strange so I don't know the reason for that that's the box it does not play cartridges unlike the Sega Genesis flashback so I'm sorry but it does have a lot of games on it you also get two of these old-fashioned controllers and they're Wireless you have to unscrew this to get to the batteries and it feels ok this doesn't feel as flimsy as a Sega Genesis 1:1 button this actually feels like it's easier to move than the original 2600 joystick which was really stiff so there's that there's the other joysticks such a strange thing to have again and here's the AC adapter pretty small in fact it looks like the same exact AC adapter as the other Sega Genesis console and HDMI so that's how the hardware looks these two wireless controllers and the console which is pretty lightweight plastic what's weird is that these two wireless controllers one of them has extra buttons the other doesn't so if you want to be able to use the extra buttons use the correct controller the one that has the extra buttons has four on the side these are reset select start and replay because this has game rewind so that I guess that brings up game rewind functions for all of the games love to see how that works other than that it's you know your classic but more lightweight feeling I think joystick the joystick actually feels less stiff than the original Atari 2600 joystick but it feels really weird to be using a joystick again anyway I won't have as many people playing the Atari 2600 and it's games as possible people who've never played it before and people have played all the games how did they look on a giant HDTV we'll find out stay tuned at CNET we'll tell you about it