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blubirde · Chanel

Old School Nintendo/Atari Games

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

check target, walmart, and sometimes sears/jcpennys/foleys. They vary by store which ones they have. I would assume amazon would carry them too. I forget their official name but it shouldn't be too hard to find.

http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-0707322-9787107?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=atari

http://www.amazon.com/Atari-2600-Classics-10-Games/dp/B0009TKRNC/sr=8-6/qid=1163888632/ref=pd_bbs_6/104-0707322-9787107?ie=UTF8&s=videogames

http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-64-30-In-1/dp/B0007A2HI6/sr=1-14/qid=1163888749/ref=sr_1_14/104-0707322-9787107?ie=UTF8&s=videogames

-- Edited by Aurora at 17:26, 2006-11-18

laken1 · Hermes

I have the Atari Flashback - there are 2 versions of it. It's cool - -I love it - very old school. Great present! I got mine from DH as well.

erin · Chanel

i recommend finding a dreamcast. there's a rom for a nintendo disc out there (with every regular nes game ever made!) and it's great. you can pm me if you are unable to get a copy of the rom...

Cortney1982 · Chanel

Check Wal-Mart. I saw it in an ad the other day, and I'm pretty sure it was a Wal-Mart ad.

atlgirl · Gucci

I bought DH's (atari Flashback) box last year at Target. I think it was $40. He opened it on Christmas day and we spent most of the day playing those games, and waxing nostalgic. :)

-- Edited by atlgirl at 11:24, 2006-11-19

blubirde · Chanel

erin wrote:

i recommend finding a dreamcast. there's a rom for a nintendo disc out there (with every regular nes game ever made!) and it's great. you can pm me if you are unable to get a copy of the rom...

I think I'm going to go this route. I remember doing this once upon a day but I think it got lost with some ex or something. But I have a friend who has one and said he would help me find a new one. Yay! Oh and he said the roms also cover all the Atari games as well. I hope the gift goes over well!

MissMee · Kate Spade

I saw a truly old school Atari at Target in the electronics dept by the video games. Same box and joystick and everything. I don't remember which games were on it, but it had a few.

I know exactly the game thingy you're talking about. You're not missing out on anything by not being able to find it. We've bought 2 of them, and they both broke after a couple of uses.

Something else you can look at is the little games in the toy sections that look like joysticks on a base. They come with many different games on each one. Probably only about $17.

subwolley · Kate Spade

I saw the Atari at Hastings last weekend. I have the plug in play for Pac-Man, and I have one complaint. It's hard to play because you have to hold it while playing it. If there was some way to mount it to a table it would be easier to play.

I old-school video games!

Bastet · Kate Spade

You could probably download an Atari or Nintendo emulator for your PC. I can't search for it from work due to firewall, but in law school I had a Nintendo emulator call NESticle that played roms of all my favorite old Nintendo games. I don't know if NESticle is still around, but there might be a newer, better emulator. There's probably an Atari one too. My husband used to have an old Mac emulator on his PC so he could play old Mac games.