r/AtariVCS • u/Esstallion • 1h ago
What am I missing? Atari vcs 800 is useless.
I saw so much love for the vcs 800 I saw one on ebay for $100 shipped brand new unopened with 2 controllers. It comes with the worst games Atari had and has no options to get the Atari games a normal person would want to have. to make it worse the controllers are worthless unless you use the Atari os. which was kinda the selling point of the unit I’d guess, to have great Atari controllers (the classic). I already knew about the controllers tho. I bought 2 of each a year or so ago when they had them on sale for $15. I got 2 classics and 2 modern for under $60. they kept giving you a deal if you bought more. I figured when I bought the vcs 800 I’d be able to at least buy the games I wanted if it didn’t have them on it but, nope. there are like 200 games In the store that are so random and no one has heard of them. I know you can use it as a mini pc, I already have one of those that’s way more powerful with 4tb of games up to the ps2. so, why bother making the vcs a mini pc. the controllers still won’t work? I would love to just put it all in the boxes everything came in and get rid of it all. this should have been an easy slam dunk. I mean, how do you fuck up controllers that bad? you would think they would make them so they would work on a pc, like they say they do. I’ll put this back in the box and away in a dark corner it will go. I ordered an atari gamestation pro for $35 that seems it will do what I want. if the shit controllers worked like they should I’d be all set over a year ago. did Atari really think they made something people would want here? controllers that only work in their os where none of the games you want to play are available. only shot Indy games no one has heard of and the Atari games you never played when they were new in 1982. so great, I can now play carnival games and 3d tic tac tow. and don’t forget the ever beloved basic math, so glad I have that now.
