AtGames Sega Genesis Classic Game Console

I own a mini NES and a SNES, this is way better then both!

This was a birthday present for my 38 year old son. He wanted to play nostalgic games, I told him they were ugly with the most horrible graphics. He said that was the fun of it.
It was easy to find on Amazon because there are lots of new and refurbished systems from the dark ages of game playing.
When I received the unit I was a bit confused because it was not in a box like the one shown. There is a console, 2 game controllers, an a/c adapter and stocked with 80 games. Everything was there just no original box.
My son was happy with it and said everything worked fine. So this is just a heads up where you receive it is just in an Amazon brown box.

Contrairement à la majorité des commentaires, je suis très satisfaite de cette console.
Sony nous propose tout simplement de retourner en enfance pour moins de 100 euros !
À ce prix là, on se doute évidemment qu’il ne s’agit pas d’une console de très haute qualité avec un son et une image fantastique. C’est ce point qui a le plus déçu. Certes, si vous êtes pointilleux, achetez plutôt une vieille console et les jeux avec.

Ici, il y a 80 jeux inclus et vous pouvez en plus insérer d’autres jeux dans la console !
Dans les 80 jeux, vous avez des classiques comme bomberman par exemple. On retrouve bien sûr les jeux de Sonic. Bien sûr, dans la liste, il y a des jeux sans grande importance mais avec un tel choix, vous pouvez être sûr de satisfaire tout le monde.

Pour les manettes, elles fonctionnent très bien. Installez-vous bien en face de la console et tout ira bien.

Bref, cette console me plaît beaucoup. Je pense que pour les puristes, elle n’est pas suffisante. Pour les autres, n’hésitez pas et amusez-vous !

Ah, yes, the Firecore Genesis system, marketed and sold under many different names and iterations over the years. I’ll spare you the needless details that everyone else has covered here and will get right to the important points:

1. 40 of the 80 games are, yes, well-known and beloved Genesis titles, including all of the Sonic games (except for Sonic 3, which is quite noticeably absent), Vectorman 1 and 2, Altered Beast, Eternal Champions, all three Streets of Rage games, Columns and Columns III, all three Golden Axe games, etc. These alone are worth the cost of this little plug-and-play system — I bought mine here on Amazon for about $40 or so, though as of this writing the price has gone up. Still worth it. The other 40 games, in case you are wondering, are sort of “homebrew” style games, mostly clones of more well-known titles, but some of which are interesting in their own right (the Bomberman clone, for example, is pretty cool).

2. Yes, the system can play Genesis carts, but it warns you that not all games may be compatible and/or will work with it. I can’t say I have experience with this myself, as I sold all of my original Genesis cartridges long, long ago. You’ll have to test out your old games yourself, and it may be hit or miss.

3. Yes, the graphics are a little grainy and the sound is a little tinny, especially if you’re hooking this little thing up to an HDTV (as I do). That’s to be expected — what this is, really, is a Genesis emulator that you plug into your television. It’s not going to be perfect, nor should you expect it to be. This is 20-25 year old technology, folks. The 16-bit era was a long time ago.

4. It comes with two infrared wireless controllers — my advice to you is to put them in storage as backups, because to get them to work flawlessly you do have to aim them directly at the unit itself (like a remote control for a television). What I suggest is to get a couple of wired, third-party Genesis controllers or to plug in your old original Genesis controllers to the front of the unit. Believe me, that’ll work much better. The wireless controllers included also require two AAA batteries each, while wired ones won’t.

5. Some reviewers have claimed there’s an SD card slot on the machine so that you can play your downloaded ROMS on it if they’re .bin files and in a folder called “Games.” If there is one, I’ve not found it and/or it’s not included on the model I have, so take that advice with a grain of salt. You can purchase extra peripherals from AtGames, the manufacturer, that will allow you to plug an adapter and SD card into the cartridge slot, though (they show pictures in the manual). No, I do not know how much those said peripherals are.

6. I’ve not had any problems with blurring or scaling on the TV with my games, as others have said. I play this system on a Philips 22″ widescreen LED HDTV, 720p, and the picture and sound is fine for what it is.

7. No, as others have said, there is NOT any sort of save-game feature. This is the one big problem with this little system and its games-on-chip technology, and my only true gripe thus far with the product.

Overall, if you’re looking for a good replacement for your original Genesis at a decent price, this may be your best option. Again, I’ve not tried any actual cartridges with it, but with the included games, most of the games all of us grew up on are on there anyway. There are those notable absences (I, for one, would’ve loved to have seen a few more Sega-developed but licensed titles), but many of the games included on the chip are hard to find in cartridge form anyway — try finding a copy of Golden Axe III or Streets of Rage 3 for under $30-40 used). It’s definitely worth your money if you want to relive some old memories or introduce the games you played to your children. Go for it.

I was so excited to get this system! I even bought two games a la carte to go with it. The system itself is okay, but its so small-which makes for a problem it says it fits genesis cartridges but the two I bought don’t fit right and they play but they get stuck in there. The worst problem is the controllers, man, are they bad. I would rather have one wire controller than two wireless pieces of garbage! You literally have to be sitting or standing right in front of the machine and even then the controllers dont do Down very well. I was playing Ms. Pacman and couldnt move in the downward direction, you can guess how fun that is! I am thinking about buying a wire controller but I am hesistant to spend any more money on this dissapointing system!