Atari VCS Review | ControllersĪtari collaborated with PowerA to design two controllers for the VCS. Additionally, a Carbon Gold panel variant will be available on the official online store and Walmart. The retail console will be available at Walmart and GameStop with an Onyx front panel sometime in the middle of the year. Without this unique accent, the VCS loses a significant tie to the 2600 and the original incarnation of Atari. Unfortunately, the wood front panel is only available on the collector’s edition models and consoles pre-ordered straight from Atari. It’s an evocative design, but it remains subdued enough to match the style of modern consoles. The device is (thankfully) smaller, but features the wood front paneled and louvers of its predecessor. The design of the VCS harkens back to the original Atari VCS, which most gamers know as the Atari 2600. Now that it’s finally here, though, I’ve gotten a chance to find out whether those misgivings were justified. Issues with missed release dates and alleged internal disputes between the system designer and management seemed to spell out trouble for the project. While the VCS received plenty of enthusiasm during the Indie Go-Go campaign, so much that it broke the website, interest has cooled since. As of right now, Atari is fulfilling backer orders only in sporadic shipments. The console was initially scheduled to drop in July 2019, but it won’t actually be available to the public until mid-2021. The Atari VCS was starting to look like vaporware after missing several release dates. Since there’s so much mystery around the project and what the console will offer, I felt that an Atari VCS review is a great way to kick off 2021. I backed the Atari VCS campaign on Indie Go-Go way back in 2018 as a curiosity, and in the final week of 2020, the console (and its accessories) randomly showed up on my doorstep. However, the year that keeps on giving snuck one more console in on me. After covering the PS5 and Xbox Series X, I thought I had wrapped up hardware reviews for 2020.
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