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[DDayton]

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/flashbacksweeps/flashbacksweeps.asp

Just enter your e-mail address and you can win:

* Atari 2600 with 5 games!
* Atari 5200 with 5 games!
* Atari 7800 with 5 games!
* Atari Jaguar with 5 games!
* Atari Lynx with 5 games!
* an Atari t-shirt!

(and, on a lesser note, a $150 Hot Topics gift card, a PS2 with some "Atari" games, and a tiny NES in a 7800 shell running badly reprogrammed versions of 2600/7800 titles)

Too bad they forgot the XE Game System.

 

[Kobun Heat]

"Too bad"? More like "thank God." Woe betide the person who wins the 5200.

 

[demi]

I ENTERED I HOPE I WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DDayton]

"Too bad"? More like "thank God." Woe betide the person who wins the 5200.

Hey! Add a disk drive and you've got a classic Atari computer -- gaming goodness!

I wouldn't mind a working 5200, actually ... I have dozens of 5200 carts, but nothing to play them on at the moment.

 

[demi]

If I win I'll be sure to sell it for some god damn booger sugar





I WANT SOME CRACK


KOBUN HEAT STOP TALKING TO ME OVER AIM AND CORRECTING ME

 

[android]

Damn US only.

 

[Gilatif]

"If I win I'll be sure to sell it for some god damn booger sugar





I WANT SOME CRACK"



You do know that you can't sniff crack right? Once its been baked, it has to be smoked!

 

[JackFrost2012]

You do know that you can't sniff crack right? Once its been baked, it has to be smoked!

 

[Gilatif]

...and knowing is half the battle!

 

[xsarien]

What're they doing, clearing out an old storage closet?

 

[Shig]

"Too bad"? More like "thank God." Woe betide the person who wins the 5200.

For the shitty controllers that will stop working before long? Yes.
For the actual game system, no way. 5200 games >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2600 games, especially arcade ports.

 

[demi]

"If I win I'll be sure to sell it for some god damn booger sugar





I WANT SOME CRACK"



You do know that you can't sniff crack right? Once its been baked, it has to be smoked!

Are you a god damn crackhead? I don't care, go sniff some crack!

 

[Kobun Heat]

I'm just glad I learned the phrase "booger sugar" from all this.

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

I'm just glad I learned the phrase "booger sugar" from all this.

I was thinking the same thing.
:lol

 

[PC Gaijin]

XEGS is actually a pretty good game machine, even if you stick to carts. Almost everything available for the 5200 is also on the XE, plus there are a lot of carts on the XE with no equivalent on the 5200. Having normal joysticks is a big plus too. And as DavidDayton said, with a disk drive there are a ton of games available.

Just counting carts I have over a hundred games for the Atari 8-bit. Virtually none of them are NES-level (except for a handful of the bank-switched disk ports that Atari did for the XEGS), which is understandable given the Atari 8-bit line dates back to 1979, but there are still plenty of good classic games available.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Graphics wise none of them compare, but the Atari 800 was much better with high-speed games-- presumably becuase they weren't designed for a D-pad, but for a joystick.

K-Razy Shoot Out and Shamus 2 were two games I recall being very, very intense.