frontpageaparlow posted Nov 24, 2025 06:09 PM
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frontpageaparlow posted Nov 24, 2025 06:09 PM
Atari VCS Video Game Console & PC Bundle (Walnut)
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Good: if you work the BIOS, you can turn this into a great retro emulator. Mine is set up with Batocera and plays every system up to Gamecube with no slowdown. Wii also works, but ps2 has slowdown issues.
Bad: Atari provides very little product support (the Dischord is decent), and it's likely not going to work out of the box without some work.
Fwiw, I found extremely few jaguar/lynx and next gen games available in their store, mostly homebrews and repops of 80s games. Atari doesn't own the rights to some of their better known arcade games, which further limits what's on the system.
If you have some sodimm ddr4 3200 speed ram and an ssd sitting around, this is a fun system to upgrade/tinker with.
Some hoops to jump through depending on your goal, but at the price, it's a decent setup.
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Some hoops to jump through depending on your goal, but at the price, it's a decent setup.
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Good: if you work the BIOS, you can turn this into a great retro emulator. Mine is set up with Batocera and plays every system up to Gamecube with no slowdown. Wii also works, but ps2 has slowdown issues.
Bad: Atari provides very little product support (the Dischord is decent), and it's likely not going to work out of the box without some work.
Fwiw, I found extremely few jaguar/lynx and next gen games available in their store, mostly homebrews and repops of 80s games. Atari doesn't own the rights to some of their better known arcade games, which further limits what's on the system.
If you have some sodimm ddr4 3200 speed ram and an ssd sitting around, this is a fun system to upgrade/tinker with.
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It's old. It's slow. It's fine, as others have said, for retro gaming and running Bazzite and such, but just be aware: it's old and slow.
The $300 junker laptops you see posted on SD have 4-10x the performance this device does. Get it because it's cheap, has the Atari VCS nostalgia, and has 2 controllers included. Don't get it expecting a good Win11/etc. experience.
Vega3 GPU, for those interested, is probably about as fast as a mobile nVidia 750M, common in entry level gaming laptops from over a decade ago. No, the 750M is faster: https://gpu.userbenchma
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I would suspect given the age and ability of the hardware, this would need to drop to $50 to be a slickdeal, which I wouldn't expect unless they go on clearance.
Super unfortunate because like another poster said, I was really digging the look of this as a low-cost Living Room PC Console.
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