My first flashback! :)

So I was out wandering through loads of Microsoft and Sony pap (and even more boring crap that has nothing to do with gaming or electronics) in the weekly boot sale (kinda like a yard sale/flea market in the US I guess) and there was an Atari Flashback 3 which the ladies only wanted £5 for. It was in the box everything looked tidy and as new and even the box had no rips etc....so kerching I bought it

So I've never seen one of these things in real life, not even really followed their development either, but my first impressions were...

1. Big smile on my face because it has D9 connector equipped classic joystick (they feel a bit loose!!)
2. It's so damned cute because it is like a baby VCS (I would prefer the joystick ports on the back though to max out the wood effect fablon strip on the front of a real VCS etc).
3. Seems well made.
4. As expected very few of the arcade conversions are on there not even Space Invaders (massive omission, how many pennies in commission could Taito have charge in royalties per unit sold?) but still plenty of stuff not on real cart like Combat 2 etc.

Right let's hope it still works and take it from there....and then obviously I need to take a screw driver to it to have a look at the PCB and then obviously surf the net to see if you can bodge a cart slot onto it