Author: James (HSE-Montreal-ppp135665.qc.sympatico.ca)
Date: 08-13-2003 17:53
Hi Tobias
try www.jakkspacific.com thats a company that makes them, they also have 2 others, one for activisiton games (10 in 1 again) and a namco 5 in 1. I had trouble finding them though. I checked the toys r us and mal wart stores where I live in canada and they didnt have any at all. Luckily a friend of mine in new york state (in albion actually) found one for me on the toys r us website which led to teh amazon.com site. Got it ordered from amazon and got it yesterday.
Couple things to remember is that it dont come with much in the way of instructions, it lists the games and the basic controls but doesnt tell you what the game variations are. So take a look online to see if you can find the 2600 game manuals there. The other thing is the graphics and sound are not exactly the same. Damn close for the most part but not exact. In breakout I've noticed the ball has a small green line (very small really) next to it. Some of the sounds are different as well, ones I've noticed so far are the thruster sound in asteroids and a couple other games that used the white noise function of the original 2600's sound IC. Gets me thinking whatever sound generator they used cant do white noise.
Some people have ended up with units from a jiggered production run but mine seems in ok condition so far. Oh and one last note, it uses composite video and straight audio outs, no rf modulator for older tv's. Since tv's with av inputs arent so expensive these days that shouldnt be too much of a problem.
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