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B078WHTYSL

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509 ratings

4.2 out of 5 stars

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#27,244 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#15 in Sega Genesis Consoles

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Product Dimensions

15 x 4.13 x 10.83 inches; 1.93 Pounds

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Video Game

Rated

Adults Only

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

No

Item Weight

1.93 pounds

Manufacturer

Sega

Batteries

4 AAA batteries required.

Date First Available

November 10, 2017

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Enhanced premium plug and play version of the original console that sold over 35 million units!Features:85 Classic Games Built-inAmazing selection of SEGA greatest hits including: Sonic series, Phantasy Star series, Shining Force series, and Mortal Kombat series games!Stunning new design, reminiscent of the original Sega Genesis Console.Two high performance 2.4ghz wireless controllers, styled after the original Sega Genesis controllers!Save/Pause/Rewind feature for every game!Integrated cartridge port that plays almost all of your favorite Sega Genesis original cartridges (cartridge is not included).720p HD DisplayHDMI OutputMultiple Display ModesOriginal Controller PortsPackage Includes:SEGA Genesis Flashback Game Console85 Built-in GamesTwo 2.4GHz Wireless ControllersAC Power AdapterHDMI CableInstruction Manual

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The Tale of Two Consoles

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2020

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Our story begins back in early 2017. A company called Atgames had been making Sega branded products including Mega Drive and Genesis since 2008 as well as Atari Flashbacks since 2011. Business was good at Atgames but their Sega customers complained that the Atgames Sega Genesis Firecore Systems had poor sound emulation and that their infrared wireless controllers did not respond as good as they would like them to. This troubled Atgames because these problems were hurting their reputation with their customers. Atgames wanted to make their customers happy. So Atgames looked at the current market and saw that Sega’s former rival Nintendo had just released the NES Classic, a mini console, much like the ones that Atgames made, only this one had built in NES games instead of the typical Sega or Atari games that you would find on an average Atgames mini console. Atgames also heard rumors that Nintendo would be releasing an SNES mini before the end of 2017. Since the NES mini sold well, Atgames thought that the SNES mini would sell just as well or maybe even better and since Atgames already had a contract with Sega, Atgames convinced Sega to let Atgames license not only the Mega Drive games, cartridge slot, controller ports and controllers but also the very appearance of the original Model 1 Mega Drive and Genesis. This made Atgames very happy. They got right to work making their brand new retro console. It was going to be a console like no other, “The Ultimate Genesis”!!! Only one problem, in order to beat Nintendo to the gate and restart the 16 Bit Wars! Atgames had to have the console ready in 6 short months. The engineers and programmers were not very happy when they found out about this deadline because they knew that it would take an entire year to make a proper console. The corporate executives told the engineers and programmers that they had to release “something” for the 2017 holiday session, but promised that they would be able to finish their dream console for the 2018 holiday session. The engineers and programmers knew this was a bad idea but went along with it anyway firstly because they wanted to keep their jobs and secondly wanted to see their vision of the perfect Genesis console released in 2018. So this became a 2 part plan. Release one console in 2017 and revise and improve the console for 2018. Thus creating 2 separate and different consoles with the same name: “The Atgames Sega Genesis Flashback” (2017 & 2018 Models). So the engineers and programmers knew there was no way to have a finished product ready for review by the fall of 2017, so they just sent out “Alpha” prototypes of the system to reviewer with unfinished software. The reviewers were unhappy with these very early prototypes so they threatened to write bad reviews unless Atgames fixed the software problems. Atgames agreed and had the reviewers return the consoles to Atgames and Atgames did everything they could to fix the software problems, thereby creating “Bata” prototypes to send back to reviewers. The reviews of these “Bata” units were mixed, but Atgames had no choice, time was up, so Atgames had to release the “Bata” prototypes as “The 2017 Atgames Sega Genesis Flashback HD” in order to complete with the SNES Classic for the 2017 holiday session. Customer reviews were mixed as well for the 2017 Model. Many complained about the menu, controllers, appearance, emulation and compatibility. This made Atgames sad. All they ever wanted to do was make the perfect console and now everybody thinks they make bad consoles. This is not good. It even cost Atgames their relationship with Sega and resulted in Sega ending their contract with Atgames at the end of 2018 and Sega would no longer allow Atgames to work on Sega’s upcoming Sega Genesis Mini for 2019. So the engineers and programmers continued to work on the 2018 console and took all of the 2017 console customers feedback into consideration. They wanted to show everyone, even Sega that Atgames could make a good console. They worked as hard as they could and finally finished “The 2018 Atgames Sega Genesis Flashback HD” right before the 2018 holiday session. Atgames was happy again. They finally released a good console. Unfortunately, they were so hard at work on the Genesis Flashback that they mistakenly neglected another Atgames project, Blast! When Blast review copies went out, they did not have the same ROMS as the ones that went out to stores. This made the reviewers mad so they said that they would not review anymore of Atgames products. This made Atgames sad again because they finally made the perfect Sega Genesis, but there was nobody to review it. They released the 2018 Sega Genesis Flashback anyway, “under the radar” with almost no reviews and very little coverage. They had spent most of their advertising budget on the 2017 model and any money they had left on finishing the 2018 model. Because of this most people do not even know that a 2018 model exists. That’s too bad, because this is one of the greatest consoles that Atgames ever made and that, my friends, is why two consoles have the same name. The 2018 Atgames Sega Genesis Flashback HD has many upgrades, a few downgrades and a few things even stayed the same. For starters let’s talk about the CPU. It’s a Dual Core 32 Bit ARM Cortex A9 SOC rated at 1.5 GHz (1.6 GHz with Overdrive enabled) and a Quad Core Mali-400 MP GPU rated at 400 MHz. This CPU is 50% faster than the 2017 model. How’s that for Blast Processing! Next let’s talk about system memory. The memory is 256 MB DDR3 SDRAM (the same as the 2017 model) and the onboard flash storage is 256 MB Nand Flash (down from 4 GB for the 2017 model). As far as ports on the console itself; it has 1 HDMI port, 1 USB power port (new for 2018), 2 9 pin controller Ports, Mega Drive/Genesis cartridge port, SD card port (new for 2018), on/off switch, menu button and an LED power indicator light. The console shell is also new for 2018 including a cosmic volume slider, revised cartridge slot, revised logos, revised button and switch, revised light bar and revised dimensions (the 2018 model is slightly deeper giving the console a larger appearance without taking up much more space). As far as the controllers, the changes include removing the rewind and menu buttons from the second controller, converting the p1/p2 switches to on/off switches, easy access battery cases and p1 and p2 labels. An HDMI cable, USB power supply and instruction poster are also included. The box is almost identical to the 2017 model.

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S.W.

really good console --- but mine came with a defective controller! [BE SURE TO READ THE UPDATE!]

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019

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[Update: As I write this update, the pictures here seem to be of the same thing that I reviewed, but the product is now described by Amazon as "Sega Genesis Flashback by Sega," not "Sega Genesis Flashback HD 2017 with 85 games"; also, judging from the offers for it (or for whatever is currently being sold here), it is more scarce and MUCH pricier. I'm not sure if what *I* bought is not what is currently being peddled here (although the pictures seem to be the same); if different products (either including or excluding what I bought) are being lumped together under the same product link (which would be classic Amazon); or if it's just that Amazon's description has changed (erroneously, since it says "by Sega") and the product IS more scarce and so much costlier. I'm going to leave my review here, though, in case people might for SURE find the product that I actually reviewed somewhere!]

First off, I'd like to make it absolutely clear that I am writing about the console that is on display here, the Sega Genesis Flashback HD 2017 with 85 games (no card slots), not any other version.
So far, I like this console. It was put out by AtGames, not Sega themselves, although it is a Sega-licensed product, so it is "legitimate." I haven't played ALL of the games here (I don't know if I ever will), but form what I've experienced so far, I think it's pretty cool. It has an overall really nice selection of games and set-up is a snap. Some of the games are actually Game Gear or Master System games, but that's OK with me. Actually, only 66 of the games here are ones that came out for the Sega systems, as 19 of them are so-called "bonus games" that were not related to Sega in any way. I don't personally care so much for some of the "Sega" games, but I think most of them are good selections. (More on the "bonus games" below.)
As for the controllers, to me they seem to be put together pretty well, and they feel fine in my hands --- a pretty much perfect fit. I would probably be completely satisfied with them if not for the fact that one of the ones I got doesn't work. Fortunately, my bro has "real" Genesis controllers (which the console works with!), but using any of them would require some digging, as they (and the "real" Genesis) are in storage! One review I read complained about the little blue light that flashes on the controller when you press a button being in your peripheral vision. I've found that if I hold the controller facing toward me, rather than holding it flat, the light isn't noticeable. Doing this doesn't make using the controller any harder, at least not for me. (Incidentally, the light on the defective controller I received flashes whenever a button is pressed, although nothing else happens.)
It seems that people have also complained about other technical problems, such as lag and bad sound. Well, on the TV that I'VE been using the console on, the games have both looked and sounded fine (no, they're not full-screen, but that isn't really bothersome to me, although I would have preferred them to be full-screen), and I've experienced zero lag. Another problem for people, it seems, is the interface; I don't find it THAT hard to navigate. At least one person has even said that Sonic 1 and 2 are only demos... not true, at least not on MY console.
As you can see, I have found the technical complaints about this console, or at least the ones I know of, to not be true (or, with the flashing-light one, easy to overcome), at least in my case. However, I HAVE read that the console did have some technical issues at launch, but these were corrected later; I don't really know if MY console is a "later" one, but I figure it probably is, since I bought it ("new") very recently. Given the console's current 3-and-a-half-star average rating out of 140+ reviews, I'm thinking that a large number of the reviewers probably got "early" ones, though I can't say for certain; it just seems to me that if this were not the case, the console would have a higher average rating. Maybe that's just me. Anyway, I figure that if you buy now, you'll most likely get a "corrected" one, at least if you buy a new-condition one.
One complaint (albeit not a really big one) I have that actually concerns the games themselves is that (like one or two other people whose reviews I read) I would have preferred to have the Streets Of Rage games instead of the first three Mortal Kombat games.
Another, relatively minor game-related complaint I have is that your characters on certain "Sega" games seem to have ice physics going on, as they are rather slippery. This is how it was on the original cartridge releases, or at least I assume it is, as neither my bro nor I have the cartridge releases.
Although the "bonus games" on this console seem to be none too popular with reviewers, I think the ones I've played are actually kind of neat, even if there isn't much to them. (They are clear rip-offs of other games, or some of them are, anyway; for one example, Cross The Road is basically Frogger). I would have preferred to have 19 more actual "Sega" games, but I don't really mind these. Really, they aren't THAT terrible (at least, I don't think the ones I've played are).
One great feature this console has is that you can save any of your games at (I think) any time, and it seems there are plenty of save slots (10 of them!) for each game.
As of yet, no cartridge games have been tried on my console, but it's really cool that the console can play them (from what I've read, the console can play not ALL but MOST Genesis cartridge games). If any are ever tried on mine, I may update and say which ones did or didn't work.
I think that overall, this is a really good console; worth the price I paid for it (about $58 new) --- even if mine did come with a non-functional controller!

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John

Disappointing graphics and controllers much too small

Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2020

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I was thoroughly disappointed with this console. First and very foremost the graphics are just absolutely hideous and beyond unacceptable. The level of pixelation and graininess isnt even a throwback to Atari and really not what I was expecting or remember from my original Sega genesis console. Horrible ,very poor grainy graphics with not a smooth edge in sight. The selection of games was great but a lot of those games lacked the audio detail that their original versions had. For example in any of the mortal Kombat games you never heard the name of the player that you selected or when the round was over you would never hear Sub-Zero wins or scorpion wins or finish him or if fatality or any of those other nostalgic phrases and sounds from the original. Also the wireless controllers are much too small to be used for any period of time comfortably and although I appreciate their wireless capabilities there was a lag of time between pushing the button and having it register on the screen. this resulted in not being to execute and win a lot of the rounds and games you're playing because your timing was off so sonic often fell off a cliff or jumped into some kind of danger or just overall accuracy in playing the game was affected by this lag. I'll be returning this and opting for a genesis mini in hopes that the graphics are better or will just try to find an original console and play original cartridge games

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Depends what you like

Reviewed in Canada on December 19, 2020

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It felt cheap. Better spend more bucks and buy a more modern console.

steven

Came with broken controller

Reviewed in Canada on October 25, 2021

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