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

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.

Not much games in VC s store but its worth it for streaming games beat my sheild TV pro better wifi 5 vs 4 plus PC mode full PC not bad do not expect ps5 or any thing like that

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.

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.

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.

Atari was initially selling these for $400. As a video game system, it's pretty subpar. The app store is a letdown and there's only about 200 games (total) available from their webstore, most are 2600, 5200 or 7800 games (few Lynx and few Jaguar games, literally NONE of the Atari/Midway arcade games). Many of these arrive bricked and require the OS to get flashed. Atari is aware of this and never fixed the issue.On the upside, this system can be customized with an ssd and the ram can be upgraded to 32 gb (3.2 ghz top speed, though it's finnicky about getting there). With some tinkering, these can be run as a mini PC for emulation. I run batocera out of mine at it emulates everything up to Gamecube without any issues/slowdown (ps2 runs, but with slowdown. ps3, xbox and more recent systems won't run well).I bought mine as a black Friday special for $80. Worth it for $100 or less. But at $200, you're better off with a mini pc for emulation.

If ya into retro gaming like me then this is for you. I grew up with the 2600 in the early 80's and this just takes ya back to the good ol days!!! Some of the things you must do is update the software right from the start, then 3 updates, its pretty painless and takes no time at all. The bonus is that this is a PC and a console all in one. so I decided to get a 256 gig 3.0 thumb drive and install Windows 10 go on it, then i installed retroarch as the main emulation station to run a bunch of different consoles. So 1 thumb drive for Window 10 and another thumb drive to put your roms on, or m.2 drive and must be SATA SSD to work. then the other thing you need to do is disable the viruse scan tool in windows 10 as it hogs up the resources of the drive speed.Once configured correctly, You can play up to PS2 games on this machine plus the arcade with the mame emulator.Also a side note, I recommend the ram upgrade to 32 gigs at 3200 speed by kingston!!Update: as I have played around with this system, I have picked up a 1 terabyte usb stick and added botacera to it with a crap load of games and systems. You will need to upgrade the ram to 3200 and put 32 gigs of it in. Then you’ll need to unlock the bias to bump up the ram speed and unlock boot from external usb. There are plenty of YouTube videos to show you how it’s done.