JAKKS Pacific Atari Paddle Console

We bought this on Black Friday of 07 for $17 at Target. Both my husband and I have fond memories of playing atari as kids and thought this would fun to play again. We also thought our son might enjoy it.

I'm not sure if we have become so accustomed to video game systems we have now, but it just seemed sorely lacking. The whole point of this system is to capitalize on the nostalgia we feel towards Atari, but they didn't include the games we remember. So they were "new" old games to us. Well old atari games are not going to impress us much unless they kindle fond memories from our childhood. The games themselves are nothing special by today's standards. If they had included games we had actually played then the experience would have been much more enjoyable.

Here is the full list of games included with the system:3D Tic-Tac-Toe, Adventure, Adventure II, Aquaventure, Arcade Asteroids, Arcade Pong, Asteroids Deluxe, Atari Climber, Battlezone, Caverns Of Mars, Centipede, Combat, Combat 2, Dodge'm, Fatal Run, Frog Pond, Hangman, Haunted House, Human Cannonball, Lunar Lander, Maze Craze, Millipede, Missile Command, Off the Wall, Outlaw, Pitfall, Quadrun, Radar Lock, Return To Haunted House, River Raid, Saboteur, Save Mary, Secret Quest, Space Duel, Space War, Video Checkers, Video Chess, Wizard, Yars' Return, and Yars' Revenge.

I wanted to see Pac-man, Q-bert, Frogger, Space Invaders or Galactica. I will admit was cool seeing the old school systemw with the joysticks I remember, it just wasn't enough though.
In the end we packed it back up and took it back to the store.