Atari 800, 5200 or arcade equivalent?

Question

Way back in the old days, good arcade games like Missile Command, Pac Man, Battlezone, Tank, Galaxian, Space Invaders, etc. were ported to early videogame systems. Usually, they never worked or played quite right, except those ported to the Atari 800 line of computers, or the Atari 5200 console game system. Those looked and played just like at the arcade.

My question really, is there a plug and play or console available today, with the games built in, that is faithful to that, rather than to the older Atari 2600 or VCS game system? I know there's a Atari Flashback, or Infogrammes plug in unit, but they reproduce the VCS games, not the games and graphics of the old Atari 8-bit computer line.

Answer 1

Hey Kev, As for an 2000+ model of the Atari 800 or 5200 plug n play don't exist in the quality of the day passed.

BUT LOOK AT THIS!! This guy did a great job making an laptop out of a 800. Scroll to the bottom of the links page. http://benheck.com/News_Archive/News_11-16-05_1-16-06.htm

Even better the full story of him making it with pic's http://benheck.com/Games/Atari_800/Atari_800_laptop_1.htm

Answer 2

I have an original Atari, definitely the RCA "Victrola" od the video game. Still works too, with many game cards.

Answer 3

There used to be an emulator called MAME32 for the old games. If you do a search for MAME32 and you can find futher info. There are *some* legal ROMs but most are illegal.