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This entire 1982 gaming magazine is asking to be scanned, there's a whole section comparing all the systems (Atari, Intellivision, Odyssey2, Astrocade (?) and the nascent Colecovision.
Despite the ad copy, Vectrex was never on anyone's radar, although the concept of a portable vector-based system seems pretty cool in retrospect.
The extreme excitement portrayed by the people in this in ad borders on mania. However, it still has resonance, my 7 year old saw this ad and asked me why everyone was looking at each other and not the game. Good point.
The Atari 400 and Atari 800 were released in 1979. The 800 was the higher-end model and the one I grew up with.
I spent many afternoons and weekends with this machine, typing in BASIC programs from magazines and playing games. BASIC was the first programming language I learned, and I learned it on this machine.
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
We still have Anne's original 2600 from 1977. I couldn't get it to start up, so we used the Atari Flashback and decorated the television (which we put on the floor, naturally) with a bunch of classic Atari 2600 carts.
Well I received an Atari 2600 for Christmas, so I'm going to try and make it out of Legos, and I decided to start with the controller. I think it turned out really well.
Check out Awesome Games Done Quick! It's a speedrun charity marathon that is raising money for charity. So far they have raised over $100,000 and it doesn't end until Sunday. Check it out: www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda
Emulating Tempest in MAME, displaying the vectors on a Vectrex game console's XY monitor. More info: trmm.net/Vectrex
From left to right....
ATARI 1010 / ATARI 800
ATARI 600XL / ATARI XC11
ATARI 1050 / ATARI 400 / ATARI 130XE
ATARI 800XL / 410 + PROGRAMMER / ATARI XC12
Last year we donated some custom minifigures to the charity and helped to raise several hundred dollars for the charity.
I haven't decided exactly what we're going to donate this year to Creations for Charity, but we are definitely going to donate the Atari 2600 controller which was built a few months ago.
So if you would like to own this creation the place to get it would be at Creations for Charity which will be open from October 15th to November 30th.
The third annual Creations for Charity (2011) ended with 418 Lego sets donated to the children, totaling in value of almost $9,200. The toys were given to Toys for Tots in Chicago, Grand Rapids, Los Angeles, and to Childrens Hospitals and Make-a-Wish in Dallas. The fundraiser sold 66 custom Lego creations and raised $5,700.
Last year was fantastic and I know we can have another great year!
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Atari Lynx #alttext 8x8 pÃxels representation of the #atari #lynx controller #microhobbit #retrodrawing #retrogaming
One of my hobbies is collecting retro-computers, focusing on computers made by Atari. I have currently have eleven different Atari-models, three from Commodore and one other model in my collection.
This is one of my Atari Portfolios, which I acquired in 2010. Well used by it's previous owner, but still works as it should. Have got an parallel-interface, extra memory and some other accessories for it now.
so totally obsessed with this girl!
thanks so much to irene for letting me adopt her!
atari wears an HOP smock and vintage barbie boots