In the old days, quarters were used for something other than laundry. Old buildings known as "arcades" housed large machines, each with a set of controls and a large screen for playing games. Several of these games, some of which featured characters made up of hundreds of pixels, were manufactured by Atari, the company founded by Pong creator Nolan Bushnell.

　　Times certainly have changed, and home systems may have made arcades go the way of the Dodo, but classic games continue to have a collective place in gamers' hearts. The latest compilation of classic games isn't for a console; rather, it's a console itself. The Atari Flashback 2 features 40 games from the company's library, 20 from the Atari 2600 system and 20 of which were previously unreleased. The set, which plugs directly in to a monitor's RCA inputs and features two joysticks, is rated E for Everyone and retails for $39.99.

　　The 40 games are as follows:

　　3D Tic-Tac-Toe

　　Adventure

　　Adventure II

　　Aquaventure

　　Asteroids

　　Asteroids Deluxe

　　Atari Climber

　　Battlezone

　　Caverns of Mars

　　Centipede

　　Combat

　　Combat 2

　　Dodge'em

　　Fatal Run

　　Frog Pond

　　Hangman

　　Haunted House

　　Human Cannonball

　　Lunar Lander

　　Maze Craze

　　Millipede

　　Missile Command

　　Off the Wall

　　Outlaw

　　Pitfall!

　　Pong

　　Quadrun

　　Radar Lock

　　Return to Haunted House

　　River Raid

　　Saboteur

　　Save Mary

　　Secret Quest

　　Space Duel

　　Space War

　　Video Checkers

　　Video Chess

　　Wizard

　　Yars' Return

　　Yars' Revenge