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Bob brought a modified Atari 1200XL computer with a built-in CompactFlash drive. Here, he tests it out by playing text adventures. We'll have a better picture of that console later.
1196 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, California
Former Atari Corporate Headquarters 1984-1996
Now partially empty, photo taken in 2009
• CIB
• Console throughly cleaned, minute detail
• Rebuilt controllers - xxx parts used - tested and function 100%, but not used
• Box in great condition, collectors will appreciate
• only flaw (this is nitpicking) faint scratch on smoked plexiglass cover
The paddle consists of a big spinning dial and a single button and provides you with some of the most precise controls you’ll ever find in a video game. You just can’t play games like Breakout or Kaboom without this level of control. Of course, that assumes that your paddle isn’t twitchy, like most are these days. Fortunately, that’s easy to fix, if you’re willing to perform some surgery and clean out all the gunk inside the potentiometer inside. For all the crazy controls game companies are trying with their systems these days, I’m surprised no one’s tried to bring back the spinner. It’s also worth noting that paddles came in pairs: Two paddles with a single connector. This allowed two sets of paddles to be connected at once, and two sets of paddles connected at once allowed the complete and total awesomeness called Warlords to exist. Unfortunately, there’s no indication which paddle is player 1 and which is player 2, so paddle games often started with a frantic attempt to figure out which paddle you were supposed to be using.
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My friend Stephen with a boxed Atari 2600!
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My Atari 2600 went missing about ten years ago. Then, on vacation in Ukiah, California, I stumbled upon a whole ton of Atari stuff which I snapped up for a bargain price. Then, right after coming home from that trip, my dad called. He'd been moving into a new house, and while cleaning up a long-forgotten closet, he found my 2600 and the game cartridges. I went without one for a decade, and now I've got two different 2600 models and 78 games.
So I modded my Xbox 360 wireless controller with the 2600 joystick running through it so I can play many of the great XBLA games the way I played similar games while growing up on the Atari 2600.
Every day at sunset as the border-crossing between India and Pakistan is closed there is a ceremony on each side of the border. Indan women ran back and forth with their flag and the border guards marched. The crowed cheered as if it were a sports game. Afterwards these girls rushed to us in order to get pictures of Eva, one of my fellow travellers who has long blond hair and bright skin color.
1265 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, California
Former Atari Corporate Headquarters -1984
Now empty, photo taken in 2009
I used to play this game at the RIT game room. A vertical scrolling game from Atari where players ride innertubes down rapids, throw cans at alligators, lots of fun!