{"id":94944,"date":"2019-06-11T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/344618"},"modified":"2019-06-11T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:03:00","slug":"ataris-throwback-atari-vcs-console-up-for-pre-order-starting-at-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/11\/ataris-throwback-atari-vcs-console-up-for-pre-order-starting-at-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Atari&#8217;s throwback Atari VCS console up for pre-order, starting at $250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atari has narrowed down the release window&nbsp;for its own spin on the re-released classic console trend, and the Atari VCS has officially <a href=\"http:\/\/atarivcs.com\/\">gone up for pre-order online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally teased as the Ataribox&nbsp;in 2017, the Atari VCS was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315696\/Atari_reveals_its_nostalgic_Ataribox_game_console_as_the_Atari_VCS.php\">officially announced last March<\/a> and, unlike Nintendo and Sony\u2019s classic systems, aims to offer new games in addition to the older games most would associate with a classic Atari system.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that, the system\u2019s hardware and price are both a bit different from those other classic consoles out there. All models offer an&nbsp;AMD Ryzen processor and support for both 4K and HDR. There are two base versions of the console up for preorder:&nbsp;a $250 Atari VCS 400 with 4GB RAM and a $280 Atari VCS 800 with 8GB RAM.<\/p>\n<p>Atari\u2019s site notes that an Atari VCS 800 All-In Bundle is also being offered with a classic joystick and modern controller for $390.The Atari VCS is set to ship in March 2020, or later this year for those that backed the console on IndieGogo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atari has narrowed down the release window&nbsp;for its own spin on the re-released classic console trend, and the Atari VCS has officially gone up for pre-order online. Originally teased as the Ataribox&nbsp;in 2017, the Atari VCS was officially announced last March and, unlike Nintendo and Sony\u2019s classic systems, aims to offer new games in addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}