AtGames Bandai Namco Flashback Blast! review copy scandal

In 2018, AtGames released a product line called the AtGames Blast! which is a micro-console that you plug in into the HDMI port containing multiple games depending on which version you're playing. A YouTuber named John Hancock received an advanced review copy of the Bandai Namco Flashback Blast! version from AtGames to post a review. He gave a recommendation because it contained arcade ROMs of classic Namco games that has great emulation, controls well and were selling for a good price. It finally seemed like AtGames released a product that isn't garbage that people will want to buy.

Once the Blast! micro-console was available in stores, gamers found out that the product that they paid for was not what John Hancock showed on his video review. The version that they got contained NES and Famicom ROMs of the same game that had emulation and control problems. Despite that box showing screenshots of the arcade versions of the games, they're really the inferior versions which is illegal. John Hancock posted a follow up video of the scandal saying how he was angry that he was used to mislead people to buy an inferior product. He redacted his recommendation and told people not to support AtGames for what they have done until they release the Blast! version containing arcade ROMs.

On November 4, 2020, AtGames released a press release that a new version of the product, titled the Bandai Namco Arcade Blast!, would be released in retail stores after a lawsuit which will include the original arcade ROMs that John Hancock showed in his review as well as two additional games: New Rally-X and The Tower of Druaga.

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