I recently picked up an Atari VCS 800 and decided to do an unboxing and showing setting the system up for the first time. I also show playing some of the games that came with the system from the Atari Vault collection 1 and to be honest I failed miserably at them. Games from that era are ruthless and playing on a modern controller doesn’t help. I definitely need a joystick controller and some more practice, but I wanted to show how bad I was because that is probably going to be most peoples experience if they have never played them before or if it has been a while. Also I really went into this blind, I bought the system off a whim and did very little research before setting it up, I thought there would be a whole bunch of Atari games already preloaded onto the system but it only comes with Atari classics vault 1.

At some point I will probably look into it more and see what other games I should get for it. I also want to get a m.2 SSD installed and run a Linux distro which will open up a lot of possibilities as far as games I can play on it. If you have any VCS exclusive games I should try out please let me know. If you have a VCS and are still playing it and loving it drop a Joystick Emoji 🕹️ in the comments.