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Some of the ones I wanted to make sure I got (among others). Looking forward to diving into these again after not playing a 2600 in forever. I'm planning on writing a series of 2600 guides for the site in the near future:
You never know what you might stumble upon when you are clearing out your backroom! Found a handful of Atari 2600 game Manual completely pristine thanks to be pressed in an old schoolbook.
Pong, in many ways, represents the beginning of civilization as we know it today. Highlights of my tour of the Henry Ford Museum.
1196 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, California
Former Atari Corporate Headquarters 1984-1996
Now partially empty, photo taken in 2009
Tari, was a short lived company during the "2600" day's of computing, they were later sued for copyright reasons.
Asteroids around me, don't know where to run
I'm somewhere between the moon and the sun
I'm in command of three ships and there's more on the way
I'm a space cadet, I can really play
Hyperspace
Push on the button and I'm back in the race
Hyperspace
Shooting my rockets all over the place
I'm invisible now but I'll be back again
Gonna kick in the thrust, 'cause I've just got to win
I've just got to win
-- Buckner & Garcia, "Hyperspace"
I've wanted to do a Musical 365 for a long time using a Buckner & Garcia song other than "Pac-Man Fever". I was in Big Al's Music on 38th and in a box found a big group of Asteroids cartridges for the Atari 2600 (and this isn't all of them) and thought this song about the arcade version would be the perfect accompanyment to a photo of them.
About fifteen years ago I sold Atari games on the Usenet for supplemental income, back when they were being dumped at your local thrift stores en masse, and in a discussion board someone asked what a good name would be for places that had an overabundance of ultra-common cartridges and few other titles. I suggested the winning name: "Combat zone" -- since Combat was the game that came with every Atari 2600 ever sold since 1977 (Pac-Man was also included after 1982).
I've said it before: I don't own 2600 Pac-Man or Combat.
80/365
The fan is directed to pull air through the hollowed out cartridge, from the vents on the bottom and front
My friend Stephen with a boxed Atari 2600!
@ Toyratt, Milton: www.facebook.com/pages/Toyratt-Classic-Video-Games-Comics...
Amusement Machine from Atari, 1265 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA
This model: 38100 (SN: UR00629) can be seen and played in San Francisco, CA (kind of amusement machine museum at pier)
More about this game:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_Position
Pole Position Commercial: