JeremyR
Member
We got them for Black Friday. Like probably a 100 of various models. And we sold maybe 10 on BF and probably that many since.
It's weird, I swear, we must have gotten only about 3 of those Legends Flashbacks and we sold 1, I think. I'm surprised we've let something that sells so poorly just sit there taking space.
Atariboy
Member
Does your Wal-Mart seem to move those AtGames Blast units?
I swear the paddle unit I bought around Christmas is the only one my local store has sold. Either that or they're keeping it well stocked everytime someone buys one.
I don't have a need for the others, but if they ever get really cheap I just may. But they're still sticking to $18 despite seemingly never selling.
AXM
Member
Has any of you guys heard about the Evercade? It looks like a nice little handheld, though I fail to see the need for a 16:9 screen.
Admittedly I'm mostly only interested in the Namco Museum cartridge, which has more than a few very odd choices I've never heard of. Also Galaxian instead of Galaga. I hate Galaxian.
It also seems to have an achievement system of sorts, which is very, very cool.
JeremyR
Member
Interesting. $80 seems a lot for what it does.
I've never been a Galaxian fan, either. Seems like a space shooter on Quaaludes.
We moved very few of those Blast units. We had an endcap in electronics with them, we sold maybe 15, then it disappeared and was replaced with Funko pops. Which also don't seem to sell
I don't really poke around in the electronics bins in back much (they're in an odd place, so you never go there accidentally), but I did also notice we have about 50 Tie Fighters for Star Wars (the ones for action figures).
JeremyR
Member
A local store that deals in vintage games got burgled, losing a bunch of rare games supposedly worth $100,000. Apparently they took the whole safe they were in.
Atariboy
Member
I'm surprised AtGames is planning new Blast units for 2019. From what I can tell, sales had to of been awful. I sort of like the paddle system I bought. Seems well built and games are emulated well enough, but the paddle takes too much effort to turn and detracts from it. Hoping it loosens up a bit in time.
Last I looked here, they finally dropped the price on those Blast units here in town. I think instead of $18 or so, they're now about $12.
I'll have to check and see if they're still here. They completely revamped electronics about a week ago and it's all setup completely different than how it had been since this location opened a decade ago. They may have disappeared when they remodeled.
I liked the way electronics was in these places back in the late 1990's and early 2000's. I liked it centrally located in the middle of the store and the enclosed nature of it for some reason.
Atariboy
Member
Was able to transfer Activision Hits Remixed for the PSP from my PS3 to my Playstation TV tonight, so I didn't waste that $8 or so after all (I couldn't download it directly when I bought it six months ago or so).
Too bad the picture quality looks awful on my PSTV. Very fuzzy and soft looking. I wish this handled PSP games a bit better than this.
The Sega Genesis Mini releases today. Yay for another round of scouring the Internet for first-hand data sources covering retail releases' game lists (from a total of three regions) and internal hardware specs. I'd be interested in getting one, maybe, because of the presence of Thunder Force III and [a newly made port of] Darius, but definitely not at the $80 MSRP. Anyone thinking of adding one to their gaming library?
- 2019/09/19 GMT
AXM
Member
It's definitely on my to-buy list. My unfortunately pretty long to-buy list.
Yay for another round of scouring the Internet for first-hand data sources covering retail releases' game lists (frøm a total of three regions)
I hope they manage to hack it to hell and back so I can add Sonic 3!
Atariboy
Member
I want one, but not at $80.
I intend to order the Analogue Mega SG soon. Once I install the jailbreak firmware update to that, all this official product offers at the end of the day over what Analogue's system can do is this Darius conversion, a new port of Tetris I'll never play, and potentially a much smoother version of Mega Man: The Wiley Wars.
With Mega Man, there's some reports that Sega's Megadrive compatible PC called the TeraDrive eliminated most of the slowdown seen on regular Genesis hardware in this game. M2 allegedly is emulating it here as if it was running on the TeraDrive, but I've yet to see a reliable outlet like Digital Foundry Retro cover this, so it might all be hogwash.
So I want one and likely will get one, but it will have to wait until it's at a more economical price point since the Analogue Mega SG in almost every regard is the vastly superior option. I'm thinking $50 or so is going to be the sweet spot for me.
I'm hopeful for Sega CD and especially 32X emulation if this is hacked like I suspect it will be. I don't own a Sega CD and the new flashcart for the Genesis with a fpga implementation of the Sega CD is too rich for my blood at this time. And I don't own a 32X and the real deal isn't compatible with my Sega Genesis 3 or the Analogue Mega SG.
This article is useful enough for that.
That's an article from June, though. There's no way they were looking at a final production example purchased from retail channels. I strictly rely on data from actual consumers for my plug-n-play info-gathering, because marketing history is full of announcements that ended up differing from the final product. So, it's YouTube and written accounts to sift through, basically. Besides, those announcements rarely match up with the title ordering used in the system menu.
It bothers me that the Wikipedia article for the Genesis Mini currently says, "emulates the original console's 16-bit hardware, and includes 42 games ported," as if you would need to port anything if you were emulating the hardware. The whole point of emulating the hardware is so that you don't have to spend a ton of time to port (i.e., recode) a whole bunch of games. Imagine how loose we could allow the definition of "port" to become:
"My friend likes that new game I got, so I'll port it for her tonight."
"What? It's a PSP game, right? Doesn't she have a PSP already?"
"Yeah, so I'll take the disc with me and port it over to her house when I visit. Dude, what's so hard to understand?"
- 2019/09/23 GMT
P.S. I still don't understand how you're able to include links in your posts, AxelMill. The system still refuses to let me post any text with equal signs, even through the post-editing interface.
AXM
Member
P.S. I still don't understand how you're able to include links in your posts, AxelMill. The system still refuses to let me post any text with equal signs, even through the post-editing interface.
But now it does let me.
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EDIT: But only sometimes!
AXM
Member
Uh oh, bad news for Ms. Pac-Man fans.
I hope everything goes for the best.
Atariboy
Member
I think I saw someone at AtariAge say they found one for $21.
A new Flashback Legends is hitting stores now as well. I'm not entirely sure if the arcade end is improved any such as incorporating a more modern version of MAME, but it does include some SNES and Colecovision games.
Any idea where the AtGames stuff might now be at my local Walmart? They changed everything up a few months ago, making electronics more wide open. At the same time the AtGames and other plug and plays disappeared.
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