Atari VCS - All-in Bundle - Video Game Console & PC - Walnut

The Atari VCS is a great choice for a mini PC.It is a beautiful machine that is packed with features. You can easily add an NVMe SATA SSD to it, which makes it even more versatile. It also has a variety of games to choose from, so you can always find something to play.Here are some of the pros and cons of the Atari VCS:Pros: * Beautiful design * Easy to upgrade * Variety of games * Can be used as a mini PCCons: * Expensive * Not as powerful as a full-fledged PC * Limited game selection

Very happy so far and am enjoying the classic games. Still figuring out how to install the OS for the pc mode, but hopefully won’t be to hard. Set up for the rest of the console was pretty easy and no defects found so far other than needing a mouse and keyboard for using chrome or certain apps for typing. No built in controller support for a digital keyboard sadly.

This is probably late to the peak of this console's popularity, but it is a nice and fun little console (that runs Linux). It has the ability to run emulators and other retro games. The store has some good homebrew (that are expensive on cartridge now) and more importantly, it has a lot of the great Atari games that make it such a great nostalgia trip.Don't expect the Switch or any other console in terms of polish. It is a love letter to the heyday of Atari with some modern indie games thrown it. It may not be a long-term console, but what I've gotten so far is quite useful. And the controllers are comfortable. The 2600-style controller takes a little getting used to, but when you do it makes 2600 game a pleasure to play.

I wanted to like the Atari VCS. Despite the numerous warnings, I went for it, hoping for the best. As a collector of vintage consoles and mini systems, I'm used to quirks, but this one was a major letdown.Hardware: Visually, the Atari VCS is stunning. The console and controllers are sleek, well-designed, and it came in impressive packaging with the bonus of extra-long cables, which I appreciated. Unfortunately, that’s where the positives ended.Right out of the box, the system struggled to connect and refused to play pre-installed games. After extensive digging through forums and user discussions, I discovered that a critical production issue in the OS leaves many units unusable at first startup. This required downloading and installing a rescue image via USB, taking hours to get the unit working.Controller Issues: Not long after setup, problems with the controller emerged. The modern controller misclicked frequently, and the D-pad was unreliable for basic left-to-right inputs. The joystick was an innovative idea, but its hypersensitivity made classic games nearly unplayable.Software: While the interface looked polished, issues quickly surfaced. A rogue mouse cursor would pop up randomly, button mapping for the controllers felt off across different games with no clear way to fix it, and the app store had very limited content.Hoping to salvage its use as an emulation box, I was disappointed to find the Atari OS was locked down, preventing this functionality.Between the bad controller, broken setup process...I can’t recommend this, even if the sparse game library isn’t a dealbreaker. Sadly, this beautiful piece of hardware ended up being a return for me.

A great system if you have the skillset or friends that can assist getting this system going which is as invovlved as it wqs the day this was first released. At $90 this wqs a great PC to play my legacy pc games.