Atari Plug ‘n Play Keychains

Posted by Sean Fallon on September 5, 2006
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Atari Plug 'n Play Keychains

Miniature Atari Joystick keychains with working games - what’s not to like about that?

Keychain features:

The unruly size and shape of these controllers combined with a non-retractable 6 foot cable make these rather useless as keychains - but at only $15 apiece, who really cares?

The Plug ‘n Play keychain can be purchased at feedflare.com.

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3 Responses to “Atari Plug ‘n Play Keychains”

  1. Jacob on September 6th, 2006 2:43 pm

    Actually, they make better keychains than games; the cable, while not retractable, is detachable. On the other hand, the joystick is poorly constructed (though I found a fix, see link above) and the games are poorly implemented - the units are actually Nintendo-compatible, and they’re using poor ports of Atari games. You’d think an NES would be able to one-up the 2600 in most respects, but it’s all about the software, and the software in this case is not as much fun as the originals. Definitely not approved by this nerd for much beyond use as keyfobs. =)

  2. Sean on September 6th, 2006 3:18 pm

    Thanks for the tip - I had no idea that they were such poor facsimiles. You would think that old Atari games would be easy enough to reproduce.

  3. Jacob on September 6th, 2006 3:53 pm

    According to one of the Flashback 2 engineers, they would have been able to make a good profit even if they had used the Flashback 2 chipset (which is an Atari on a chip), but chose to skimp. Result: it’s a very good miniature of the original joystick, but not a good game.

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