Hey guys, welcome back! Alright, check this out. This is the Atari Fight Stick from Micro Center with the trackball. Now, if you watched my other video, you knew that when I opened this thing up, it was all good, I was all excited. And then inside, where there's supposed to be a Raspberry Pi 3B Plus with some preloaded Atari games, there was nothing. It was just the mounts. Well, check this out. This is super cool. So Andy, who's a buyer over at Micro Center, who does all the arcade DIY stuff, he's like, hey, man, I saw your video, and I'd like to get on a Zoom call with you. So he jumps on a Zoom call with me, and he's like, look, I'm going to send you the 3B Plus that you need. I'm going to send you this. He sent the case, even though I didn't need it. And then he sent the SD card. This is so cool because he really jumped on a Zoom call, and he's like, look, we are very, very serious about our arcade DIY stuff, and we wanted to make sure it was right for you. We're super bummed that this happened. But hey, let's fix it. So he did. That was really cool. And it was much, much appreciated. So thank you, Andy. The experience was awesome. And I really enjoyed talking to him too. He's a really super nice guy. And I think Micro Center has a lot of cool things in store for their arcade DIY, you know, part of their business. So I'm pretty stoked. So let's fire this thing up and I'll show you what you're going to get and what this thing is all about. Okay, as this thing boots up, you get this custom splash screen. It just says Atari loading and then it has the Micro Center logo because this retro gaming division of Micro Center is something they're, you know, continuing to add products and things like that, which is pretty cool. When you boot it up, it's not anything, you know, different than what you'd expect with a vanilla RetroPie build, but it's filled, again, like I said, it's built with Atari. There's a hundred Atari games. So you've got Atari arcade games, Atari 2600 games, 5200, 7800, and then you've got like normal RetroPie settings. So they haven't done anything custom here. So if you want to go and change anything, you can do all that. So you have full access to all of the settings you would in RetroPie. Now, I will say this for one second before we dive in further. It does boot up initially, and it updates the latest version of their build for this arcade stick. So I don't know, depending on if you have one of these, your experience may have been slightly different because it actually attaches to Wi-Fi. I would suggest you put a keyboard on it and then when you put a keyboard on it you can just put in Wi password and it does the rest for you which is pretty cool so i think the first game i want to play is food fight guys i loved food fight back in the day and i put up um i put up the camera so you can see the fight stick while we're playing the one thing i did notice about this image is it boots kind of slow so i don't know if that's just the sd card they used and keep in mind as we're walking through this you don't have to use this or buy this with the SD card you could totally just buy the fight stick alone by itself so you do have options oh man that is loud okay we're gonna lower that a little bit I'm gonna die watch all right so I don't know if you guys have ever played food fight but it I think food fight stands the test of time guys not many Atari games do but I love this game I mean if you like if you like burger time I mean yeah the graphics on burger time are slightly better, but, like, BurgerTime, Food Fight, instead of building burgers, you're, you know, fighting people with food, I mean, what, how much more fun can you get, who doesn't like a good food fight every now and then, so anyways, this is pretty, pretty fun game, I used to love this, I didn't have a 7800, you know, as a kid, but my neighbor did, and then I did get one later, but I got one way at the end of its life cycle, it was like no one cared about it anymore, I got a lot of hand-me-down video game stuff when I was a kid, so I don't know, maybe you guys are in that same boat, but my neighbor was, he was, his dad had money, so he would, he would have, like, the latest and greatest stuff, I still had a 2600, I think, or maybe a Master System, I don't remember, whatever was around at that time, so anyways, I love this game, it plays great on this, emulation is good, and most of these Atari games emulate well, so let's check out the trackball, since the trackball is such a big feature of this, so we're gonna go back, and we'll go to Arcade and we're gonna load some Let's see, we'll probably do some Tempest, right? I mean, we will do Missile Command, but I'm worried about it. Because you guys know, if you've watched the channel for a while, I did that whole Missile Command debacle with the Missile Command Recharged or whatever, the newer version. Oh, dude! Did the... Regular Missile Command was not this hard. I need a better mouse. It's the mouse, guys. I know it's the... Damn it! Damn it! That's not good. That's not good. Aw, man, that's not a good start. So one thing I say about Tempest and obviously Tempest was a spinner game so this is using a trackball which is still pretty cool but I will say I would probably adjust the sensitivity on the trackball I don't do a lot of pie stuff, so I actually don't know how to do that, but I'm sure there's instructions out there on how to adjust the trackball. The trackball seems like it could be a little bit more sensitive, like when I kind of got to give it a good push. yeah i mean their atari games they're known for good emulation their emulation of all these games is pretty dialed in there they're like the original games that people would do under emulation so a lot of them run really really well okay we're gonna exit out to the main menu one more time we're gonna go to missile command but you know just just so you guys know i'll i'll say this one more time you're not fixed to this so if you enjoy and like this fight stick which is a really good quality fight stick by the way you can order it either without the trackball with the trackball with the pie without the pie so you have options so i mean if you're looking for a high quality fight stick that you know is really cool because i love to service it is really awesome like to have this capability where you can lift it up that's really neat because you can go in and easily replace buttons joysticks all sorts of stuff although they're really good quality for what it is they're clones but for being like a like a hap clone button and stick it it's pretty good so i'm not complaining about that it's pretty neat all right let's go back to the game real quick let's play some missile command i got to get this out of the way i can't i can't have this this is gonna mess with me all right oh man we already got we're already we're already screwed okay now if you guys remember i wasn't necessarily awesome at missile command the the recharged version but I mean, the recharged version was a little hard, man, for being, like, you know, I don't remember Missile Command being that hard. I mean, not, oh, crap, as I die. Wait, wait, no. Oh, there we go, okay. Ugh. Alright. John Youssi, it's not that hard. Anyways. I don't know, I always had fun with Missile Command, but that recharged game was kind of tough. I kind of ate it, man. I was, like, not doing well. and uh i do need to do a retribution live stream for that because i feel like i need to redeem myself i feel like that i was unfairly treated there let me get that guy oh no oh no I let him launch some stuff not good not good guys see see I not bad right it level two we gonna we gonna stop there we gonna stop there all right, so, let's do some final thoughts, oh, man, this light, damn it, sometimes, sometimes, it's just, isn't, this isn't ideal over here in the studio, there's stuff everywhere, but, But hey, I got to say, first of all, I'm super excited that Andy reached out. I didn't reach out to them at all. He reached out and said, hey, we saw your video. So that means they're going out and looking at who's reviewing the products and who's doing, you know, reviewing things from Micro Center. That's really cool. And I don't doubt that if anyone had that problem, they would totally make right on it. And that's awesome for a company to reach out and do that and say, look, we want to fix it for you. it basically he just had me send him the original purchase of what I got and he's like no worries there you go so I like this fight stick I really do I think the quality is good on it I'm not huge on Atari so I'm not like you know flipping out over that but it's still really fun and I think if I was looking for a fight stick it would definitely be one I would at least consider it all depends on what you want to achieve right if you're looking for something that's just all ready to go, no tinkering required, and there are other things around. And there's other fight sticks that connect to consoles. This is more of like a DIY kind of thing where you can put in whatever Pi images you want or, you know, you can plug it up to different things as well. So it's a pretty neat little device. I'm pretty stoked on it, actually. So good quality, good job, Micro Center. This thing's pretty solid. So that's it, guys. If you like this video, consider giving us a thumbs up on the way out. Consider subscribing to the channel. We love that. and it shows your support. Put your comments below, I wanna know what you think of this, and always turn on notifications to be informed of future videos like this one. That's it for now, guys. We will see you all the next one. Thank you.