required analog paddle controllers, and were made to work with the included joysticks. The Atari Flashback runs on "NES-on-a-chip", rather than Atari hardware. As a result, its games do not match their original counterparts entirely. The game library includes Saboteur, a game that went unreleased for 20 years. The Flashback sold approximately 500,000 units. Craig Harris of IGN was critical of the game conversions and opined that original copies of these games were superior, writing "it's just horrifying to see Atari, a company that outright owns these games and the original hardware, produce such shoddy renditions of the classic 2600 and 7800 games." Harris complained of problems such as flicker, poor collision detection, and missing sound. He praised the controllers for their reduced size, finding them more comfortable to use, but he was disappointed that they are incompatible with the original 7800. Atari Flashback 2 The Atari Flashback 2 was released in August 2005, as an improved version of its predecessor. It retailed for $30, and includes 40 built-in Atari 2600 games. It is a small near-replica of the 2600, about two-thirds the size of the original. Its controllers are also replicas of the 2600 joysticks. The 2600 and Flashback 2 controllers are compatible with both systems. Instead of switches, the Flashback 2 console has several buttons, some of which are used to adjust power and reset it. A "select" button is used to choose between single-player and multiplayer modes, for certain games that offer the latter. Two other buttons are used to adjust the joystick difficulty for the left and right controller respectively. An AV cord is hardwired into the back of the console. The back also has a switch to toggle games between color and black-and-white. Vendel and Legacy Engineering returned to develop the Flashback 2. In designing it, Vendel relied on materials from his Atari History Museum. He recreated the original Atari hardware on a single chip, allowing games to run as they originally did. The console's hardware makes it easy to mod. The Flashback 2's motherboard can be altered to accept 2600 cartridges, a concept that the console was designed around. The Flashback 2 was better received compared to its predecessor. John Falcone of CNET praised the controllers and considered them the best aspect of the console. The Flashback 2 sold 860,000 units in the United States. A PAL version was never released. The console was