HERE’S THE TL/DR: this review is mainly for Gen-Xers. If your first gaming console was a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) or Sega Genesis, or a PlayStation or XBox, then you’ll probably do better just to move on. But for those of us who grew up in the Atari Generation, when the home gaming market was born and really started to take off, this box is a time machine that will transport you to simpler times when all you needed to worry about was a stick and button!
I was born in 1970 and grew up with the Atari 2600, also known as the VCS, or Video Computer System. From the 2600 I graduated to the Atari 400, a rudimentary computer that could do some basic computing, but was really just an improved 8-bit gaming experience. I loved that 2600. Loved it.
I first saw the Atari Gamestation Pro on display at My Arcade Gaming’s booth at CES last January and immediately wanted it. In fact, I offered to buy their display model on the spot. (They declined and told me to wait.) So, when I saw the system at my Costco (selling for $79 instead of $99) I snatched it up.
And from there, I went down a rabbit hole to see just what the Atari Gamestation Pro could do.
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The original Atari VCS was bundled with two joystick controllers, a pair of paddle controllers, and one game cartridge: . It launched
