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If you ever wondered what it looks like when an Atari 5200 cartridge fails to power up correctly. The 5200 (and the 7800 and the Colecovision) put up a front-end screen before it goes on to the program, so something shows up... and then nothing. This is one of four wonked 5200 cartridges I have, whereas I've only had three dead Atari 2600 cartridges (and I used to sell them online so I've been though hundreds) in the last 33 years.
Steampunks could probably do something interesting with the mistaken 1922 copyright date.
Yes, there was a clone of the 2600 -- and I don't mean the Sears Telegames, which was a rebranded Atari-made machine. Coleco has made their Expansion Module #1 adaptor for 2600 games and Atari took them to court... well, since Coleco used off-the-shelf parts and not proprietary Atari hardware, Coleco won, and as a result they decided to sell some 2600 knockoffs.
The usual game seen in a Gemini was Donkey Kong, but several other titles were used also. And this one kind of makes sense: in Atari's Combat bundled game, you used tanks to shoot at tanks; in Coleco's Front Line, you used infantry soldiers to throw grenades at tanks.
Radio control joystick, authentic Atari merchandise. The remote unit is the same shape but not the same base size as a stock Atari stick, so not quite as easy to hold in one palm. (I refer to this form factor as "mod boot".) The radio base unit has three cords, two of which are controller plugs for the back of the Atari and one is power. Of course there are two sticks.
Range? Not too bad, depending on battery strength in the controller.
As cool as Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle was, the game you really meant to pick up was The Arcade Game, which was the familiar scenes from the first [fourth?] Star Wars movie and a fairly good port of the coin-op game.
Odd: The coin-op version was created by Atari, yet the home version of the coin-op game was licensed from Atari/Lucas by Parker Bros for the Atari 2600.
Taken at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Keypad for the Atari 800
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