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Thriftstore is closing the local location and they're selling everything for pennies on the dollar. No accessories or games were found nearby, but I have a set already so this will be my spare. :)
This was part of Atari's second series of home computers, following on from the 400, 800 and 1000XL. I still like the futuristic styling.
The Atari 2600 went on to become the first incredibly popular home console system, paving the way for Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and Microsoft. This prototype is from 1975 and was built by Steve Mayer and Ron Milner.
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.
Atari's 8 bit computer were never really famous in Sweden. As far as I can recall the first time I really heard about Atari and their home computer was probably in 1988 or something, and then it was the Atari ST.
The Atari XEGS was released in 1987 and is basically an Atari 65XE with detachable keyboard. The main purpose was as a gaming console being able to Atari XL/XE-games.
I got this one mainly because the keyboard of the 600XL was broken and I was a bit curious on Ataris 8-bit computers.
When designing the postcards advertising our 2012 Atari Party, we realized we wanted a picture of a bunch of atari cartridges on end. Unfortunately, all the Creative Commons ones we could find disallowed commercial use.
So we dug out some of our Atari cartridge collection and took some photos.
We intended to do two photo shoots - one to do the general planning, one to get the exact right photo. This was the best alignment photo we had but was annoyingly blurry. Testing on the postcard, we realized that the blur actually helped by making sure the text overlaid on top of it was more readable, so we ended up not doing a second shoot.
Maybe someone else will find it useful as well!
Based on the 1982 Clint Eastwood action film, Firefox comes Atari's first and last laserdisc game, named the same.
Check out Chocolate-Milks Version
Let me show you em.
Space Invaders, Skiing, Night Driver, Missile Command, Combat, Stampede, Wizard of Wor, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Defender, Starmaster, Asteroids, Air-Sea Battle, Super Breakout, Video Olympics, MASH, Atari Racing Pak, & Star Raiders.
Photo of Atari 400 8-bit computer video games console, taken from TV Cream Toys www.tvcreamtoys.co.uk - more photos, plus write ups, at the web site.
Part of the videogames exhibition in Museum Of The Moving Image in New York City.
I like how they picked one joystick with an orange ring and another one without.
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.
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My version of the tutorial given by Eren Göksel.
Cartridge inspired by fabio'stut months ago.
Reminds me the good old times of the Atari 2600 VCS. Oh! by the way i dont feel so young suddenly ;) lol !!
I really have pleasure in doing this, so i hope you will enjoy.
This was technically an Atari 65XE converted into a console - to the extent that it shipped with a keyboard, could use the same peripherals as the rest of the Atari 8-bit line, and it could run the same software. It was sold against the Atari 7800 and 2600jr - it didn't exactly go well.
My wife and daughter think it looks ugly, but I really like the pastel buttons. :)
96 cartridges, over 80 different games. Some go into my collection, some go into craft projects (does anyone really need three Pac-Man cartridges?), and a few will go up for sale on eBay.
Obtained from a local pawnshop.
One day I’ll get round to re-commissioning my Atari 800. It was made in 1982. It was bought by my parents with some inheritance money in 1983. It was an expensive machine in it’s time, costing over £500. All my mates had ZX Spectrums, they were much cheaper and they would copy games on their twin cassette stereos. It would be a considerable amount of time before the PC became the standard computer for home and office.
If it will work remains to be seen, but I hope the floppy disks and cassettes are OK. It would be great to see programs that I’ve created some 40 years ago.
With the secondary Legendary Ikea Jerker ™ assembled at work, I am now able to unbox all the Atari hardware. Here it is in working order. Yes, that is Star Raiders running on a widescreen LCD directly off off the Atari 800 on the left using the APE SIOtoPC.
Scanned from a photo I took in 1997.... and the odd part is not that I have an Atari 2600 and a wall of cartridges, but that I posed the 2600 for the shot, not the 7800 that was actually plugged into the television.
The 2600 was the game system from its inception in 1977 to its complete closure in 1990. I got mine in 1978 when there were only a dozen (numbered) cartridges. I had the Pac-Man t-shirt that was packed in with the cartridge when first released. I subscribed to Atari Age Magazine for two years. 1984 was the home videogame system collapse, brought on by too many systems and too many lousy titles coming out in 1981-1984 [Pac-Man and ET, anyone?] and it took the Nintendo Entertainment System to bring the game market back in 1986.
Yes, I still play it, and the 7800 and a little TV are on a cart behind me, with all those cartridges filling up the shelves... although no longer alphabetically arranged.
Zellers is the Canadian version of K-Mart. They also produced their own line of bootleg Atari 2600 carts for the low, low price of $6.99. Not only were the games almost all stolen, but the artwork for them was largely stolen as well. For instance, "Challenge" features an image that's clearly two Ghostbusters, Frontline is a crop of the Xevious cabinet art. Busy Police (Not pictured) is at least stolen from Keystone Kapers, the game it was a rip-off of.
I'm sure the rest of them are also stolen from other places, but I'm not an expert on mid-80's sci-fi art involving spaceships and line-art neon dragons and sexy space robots riding robotic plesiosaurs.
The full-sized image is available for download at my website.
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