Sega Genesis Flashback HD 2017 Console 85 Games Included

Our story begins back in early 2017. A company called Atgames had been making Sega branded products including Mega Drive and Genesis since 2008 as well as Atari Flashbacks since 2011. Business was good at Atgames but their Sega customers complained that the Atgames Sega Genesis Firecore Systems had poor sound emulation and that their infrared wireless controllers did not respond as good as they would like them to. This troubled Atgames because these problems were hurting their reputation with their customers. Atgames wanted to make their customers happy. So Atgames looked at the current market and saw that Sega’s former rival Nintendo had just released the NES Classic, a mini console, much like the ones that Atgames made, only this one had built in NES games instead of the typical Sega or Atari games that you would find on an average Atgames mini console. Atgames also heard rumors that Nintendo would be releasing an SNES mini before the end of 2017. Since the NES mini sold well, Atgames thought that the SNES mini would sell just as well or maybe even better and since Atgames already had a contract with Sega, Atgames convinced Sega to let Atgames license not only the Mega Drive games, cartridge slot, controller ports and controllers but also the very appearance of the original Model 1 Mega Drive and Genesis. This made Atgames very happy. They got right to work making their brand new retro console. It was going to be a console like no other, “The Ultimate Genesis”!!! Only one problem, in order to beat Nintendo to the gate and restart the 16 Bit Wars! Atgames had to have the console ready in 6 short months. The engineers and programmers were not very happy when they found out about this deadline because they knew that it would take an entire year to make a proper console. The corporate executives told the engineers and programmers that they had to release “something” for the 2017 holiday session, but promised that they would be able to finish their dream console for the 2018 holiday session. The engineers and programmers knew this was a bad idea but went along with it anyway firstly because they wanted to keep their jobs and secondly wanted to see their vision of the perfect Genesis console released in 2018. So this became a 2 part plan. Release one console in 2017 and revise and improve the console for 2018. Thus creating 2 separate and different consoles with the same name: “The Atgames Sega Genesis Flashback” (2017 & 2018 Models). So the engineers and programmers knew there was no way to have a finished product ready for review by the fall of 2017, so they just sent out “Alpha” prototypes of the system to reviewer with unfinished software. The reviewers were unhappy with these very early prototypes so they threatened to write bad reviews unless Atgames fixed the software problems. Atgames agreed and had the reviewers return the consoles to Atgames and Atgames did everything they could to fix the software problems, thereby creating “Bata” prototypes to send back to reviewers. The reviews of these “Bata” units were mixed, but Atgames had no choice, time was up, so Atgames had to release the “Bata” prototypes as “The 2017 Atgames Sega Genesis Flashback HD” in order to complete with the SNES Classic for the 2017 holiday session. Customer reviews were mixed as well for the 2017 Model. Many complained about the menu, controllers, appearance, emulation and compatibility. This made Atgames sad. All they ever wanted to do was make the perfect console and now everybody thinks they make bad consoles. This is not good. It even cost Atgames their relationship with Sega and resulted in Sega ending their contract with Atgames at the end of 2018 and Sega would no longer allow Atgames to work on Sega’s upcoming Sega Genesis Mini for 2019. So the engineers and programmers continued to work on the 2018 console and took all of the 2017 console customers feedback into consideration. They wanted to show everyone, even Sega that Atgames could make a good console. They worked as hard as they could and finally finished “The 2018 Atgames Sega Genesis Flashback HD” right before the 2018 holiday session. Atgames was happy again. They finally released a good console. Unfortunately, they were so hard at work on the Genesis Flashback that they mistakenly neglected another Atgames project, Blast! When Blast review copies went out, they did not have the same ROMS as the ones that went out to stores. This made the reviewers mad so they said that they would not review anymore of Atgames products. This made Atgames sad again because they finally made the perfect Sega Genesis, but there was nobody to review it. They released the 2018 Sega Genesis Flashback anyway, “under the radar” with almost no reviews and very little coverage. They had spent most of their advertising budget on the 2017 model and any money they had left on finishing the 2018 model. Because of this most people do not even know that a 2018 model exists. That’s too bad, because this is one of the greatest consoles that Atgames ever made and that, my friends, is why two consoles have the same name. The 2018 Atgames Sega Genesis Flashback HD has many upgrades, a few downgrades and a few things even stayed the same. For starters let’s talk about the CPU. It’s a Dual Core 32 Bit ARM Cortex A9 SOC rated at 1.5 GHz (1.6 GHz with Overdrive enabled) and a Quad Core Mali-400 MP GPU rated at 400 MHz. This CPU is 50% faster than the 2017 model. How’s that for Blast Processing! Next let’s talk about system memory. The memory is 256 MB DDR3 SDRAM (the same as the 2017 model) and the onboard flash storage is 256 MB Nand Flash (down from 4 GB for the 2017 model). As far as ports on the console itself; it has 1 HDMI port, 1 USB power port (new for 2018), 2 9 pin controller Ports, Mega Drive/Genesis cartridge port, SD card port (new for 2018), on/off switch, menu button and an LED power indicator light. The console shell is also new for 2018 including a cosmic volume slider, revised cartridge slot, revised logos, revised button and switch, revised light bar and revised dimensions (the 2018 model is slightly deeper giving the console a larger appearance without taking up much more space). As far as the controllers, the changes include removing the rewind and menu buttons from the second controller, converting the p1/p2 switches to on/off switches, easy access battery cases and p1 and p2 labels. An HDMI cable, USB power supply and instruction poster are also included. The box is almost identical to the 2017 model.

Build material: Cheap lightweight plastic. Controllers: Semi functional but suck for Mortal Kombat. Cheap plastic and have latency. System: Is nothing like the original Sega Genesis, has frame Drops on the fighting games like: Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Mortal Kombat 3. If you are not getting it for the Mortal Kombats then I guess it works fine. I got it for the MK1,MK2 and MK3 as well as Shinobi and Sonics. It does not play Mortal Kombats 1, 2 or 3 well, not sure if its the shitty controllers, Frame Drops caused by system that is an emulator and not a traditional system, or if its caused by Latency from the system? For example combos drop all the time and inputs don't always go through when playing MK3. I gave it 3 stars because its functional with most games but wanted to be clear so others know its nothing like the Original Sega Genesis. Pros: - has alot of old games, 45 Sega games and the rest are from something else. - HDMI and works on HDTVs. - has two 2.4hz Wireless Controllers. - Has 45 Original Sega Genesis Games built in its emulator. Including Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Virtua Fighter, Sonics, Shinobi III, Vector man 1/2. Con's: - System/Controllers are Made from poor 3rd world Chinese plastic and that's being generous. - System has Frame Rate Drops when playing Fighting games like Mortal Kombat-MK3(Hard to do combos). - Controllers have lag on Mortal Kombats 3. - Controllers are made out of a very cheap Plastic. - System won't play all Sega Cartridges! But plays most.

Don't buy this one .....even though this one has 85 games as opposed to 25 or 35 or 45 this one doesn't have any of the good games like the other Sega's seem to come with ....this one has all the Mortal Combats and Sonic's and kid chameleon but that's about it . 30 of these games are unplayable.... No earthworm Jim no Streets of Rage .

Came with one broken controller

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I was thoroughly disappointed with this console. First and very foremost the graphics are just absolutely hideous and beyond unacceptable. The level of pixelation and graininess isnt even a throwback to Atari and really not what I was expecting or remember from my original Sega genesis console. Horrible ,very poor grainy graphics with not a smooth edge in sight. The selection of games was great but a lot of those games lacked the audio detail that their original versions had. For example in any of the mortal Kombat games you never heard the name of the player that you selected or when the round was over you would never hear Sub-Zero wins or scorpion wins or finish him or if fatality or any of those other nostalgic phrases and sounds from the original. Also the wireless controllers are much too small to be used for any period of time comfortably and although I appreciate their wireless capabilities there was a lag of time between pushing the button and having it register on the screen. this resulted in not being to execute and win a lot of the rounds and games you're playing because your timing was off so sonic often fell off a cliff or jumped into some kind of danger or just overall accuracy in playing the game was affected by this lag. I'll be returning this and opting for a genesis mini in hopes that the graphics are better or will just try to find an original console and play original cartridge games

It felt cheap. Better spend more bucks and buy a more modern console.