I was at a vintage/thrift store this weekend and saw a Flashback 2 sitting on the shelf. There was no box or anything, and I already have two working 2600 consoles but I can't resist Atari stuff so I pick it up and give it the once over. I think it was marked at like $35-40 or something dumb so I was ready to move on....
Until I noticed this:
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Now, I'm no Flashback expert, but I've never seen a joystick with a green LED (or maybe just a light?) on the bottom. It doesn't look like a mod, the hole looks like part of the molded controller...The rest of the joystick had all the same traits as the Flashback joysticks I have at home, threaded removable stick, logo without the word "Atari" under it on the front, but this has me stumped.
Plus I can't find anything about it on the forum, or in a Google image search.
Is this some kind of unicorn or just a variant I missed in the past few years?
Until I noticed this:
Now, I'm no Flashback expert, but I've never seen a joystick with a green LED (or maybe just a light?) on the bottom. It doesn't look like a mod, the hole looks like part of the molded controller...The rest of the joystick had all the same traits as the Flashback joysticks I have at home, threaded removable stick, logo without the word "Atari" under it on the front, but this has me stumped.
Plus I can't find anything about it on the forum, or in a Google image search.
Is this some kind of unicorn or just a variant I missed in the past few years?