I Titor’d back to 1980 tonight. It was wonderful.

AK and I picked up an Atari Flashback 2 yesterday at Best Buy. Got a great deal too at 19.99 since they only had the price up for the older version. Basically it is a smaller version of the 2600 with 40 games built into it. Supposedly it uses the original hardware, I don’t know though. The controllers are also authentic… just as stiff and uncooperative as you remember. I love it.

I was constantly surprised at the games that I remembered. “‘Haunted House’, what’s that? OH SHIT! I remember this!” Unfortunately some of the games just aren’t as good as you remember them being. That, of course, is not the case for this gem:

River Raid. Yes, River Raid still owns. I think I could still play this game for hours, hell, for $20 bucks I would have bought this system if the only game it had was River Raid.

Everyone who ever owned an Atari 2600 needs to go pick this up. Show your children what you had to play on when they are bitching about the gameplay and/or graphics on their Xbox 360.