Atari 400 Mini Retail Edition - Unboxing, Gameplay and First Thoughts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 เม.ย. 2024
- My Atari 400 Mini is finally here! So excited to open it up and start having a play. I unbox the unit, compare it to my original Atari 400 unit, and then plug it in and have a quick play of each of the included games.
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The gameplays in this video are:
0:13:40 - Airball
0:15:10 - Asteroids
0:16:40 - Basketball
0:17:24 - Battlezone
0:20:39 - Berzerk
0:22:44 - Boulder Dash
0:25:40 - Bristles
0:27:25 - Capture the Flag
0:29:20 - Centipede
0:30:25 - Crystal Castles
0:31:24 - Elektra Glide
0:32:50 - Encounter!
0:34:05 - Flip and Flop
0:36:05 - Henry's House
0:37:58 - Hover Bover
0:39:20 - Lee
0:42:55 - M.U.L.E
0:44:10 - Millipede
0:45:05 - Miner 2049er
0:49:20 - Missile Command
0:52:18 - O'Riley's Mine
0:54:02 - The Seven Cities of Gold
0:54:36 - Star Raiders II
0:59:00 - Wavy Navy
0:60:00 - Yoomp!
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The Gamesmen have been around for years they are the ones that did the HES games for the 2600. They also had the distribution rights to the Intellivision in Australia after the Mattel version the INTV one. I was one of their only resellers in Victoria. Sabastion is one of the guys in the logo he was the one I was dealing with, really nice guy. The other partner was sadly killed in an armed robbery at the store.
Ah so in a way I have also dealt with them before, as my boss at Lets Play Games knew the HES distributor well.
Nice to see the item was well packaged for delivery, viewed a US based reviewer and theirs was sent in a plastic bag and their box was NOT mint prior to unwrapping, your box seems to have ended it's journey, in not 100% the effort at final stage seems to have been done. Hmm, I am thinking a lot of collectors will want these, so shipping boxes, so the customer gets them mint, including the box, in the best condition box, would be nice, I think?
Played Star Raiders 2, on the ZX Spectrum, back in the day, a great game, a type of game that the ZX Spectrum can do very well. Didn't know the connection to the 'Last Starfighter" game, or until more recently, the actual movie; Imo, the movie, is a total modern classic, i really enjoyed watching it, yet another movie I could have watched, as a kid but missed.
Great review of the product, hope my ramblings are not too annoying.
The dent in the box was a touch annoying but I am more into the device rather than the packing (but that’s just me).
Star Raiders II is a seriously great game, well I spent hours and hours playing it back in the day anyway :) and of course its connection to the Last Star Fighter was very much appreciated back then too.
I'm still in 2 minds whether I should buy one or not. I can't believe you've never heard of the Gamesmen in Sydney before, they've been around for a long time. I used to buy Atari 2600 games from them back in the mid 80's.
Depends on how much you are into the Atari 8-bits, I will probably work out another joystick to use, but otherwise the emulation and experience seems rock solid so far.
Read this after I posted my comment 🤣
This extended gameplay video is very nice, certainly shows that the built-in joystick works pretty well. It has received some harsh early reviews, so this does help.
Great video overall, thanks!
PS: Get back to playing MULE! Select Tournament mode, skip the training modes, figure it out, you’ll love it.
PS2: Install MULE and Seven Cities onto your USB drive, as the installed versions either suffer from graphics glitches or have cut out content. Hope that helps.
Thank you, besides the occasional accidental button pushing (which can be fixed by changing the mappings) the joystick works really well and is surprisingly comfortable. I do need to play MULE properly (and seven cities), I am going to play with loading from USB next.
@@electricadventures Into the Vertical Blank posted a video where they show how to play the 1MB homebrew games like Atariblast and Space Harrier. You should check those out if possible.
You mention some people don't like how easily you can accidentally hit the wrong button on the controller, Tony as well as in your conclusion you brought it up yourself. Is it that bad? The controller is half the reason I was interested in this mini but now I that I hear so many issues with it (Metal Jesus also brought it up) I might not get it after all. Is it really that bad?
It was an interesting idea to make the four points of the disc around the base of the stick be buttons, but it doesn’t work for certain types of games. You can however remap any of the buttons for each game. So with a bit of configuration it should solve must of the accidental pressed during gameplay. Between the button on the top corner and the two buttons on the side there should be enough buttons available to remap the ones that either pause or restart the game to somewhere more sensible.
@@electricadventures good to know, thanks!
i never been a fan of atari 400 and dont see why i would get this mini version at all. the best games on it are on atari 2600.
The Atari 8-bit versions of a lot of the games are similar to the 2600 versions but have better graphics, more colours and better sound. Quite a lot of the 2600 games were also released as Atari 8-bit versions.