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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. :)
From quarterarcade.com/.
I kinda should not have bought this. It was the most expensive control panel + controller they had for sale and by a wide margin, but I WANTED one and this controller is hard to imitate. At least until ram-controls.com/ gets ready to ship their (religiously accurate) remake of this controller.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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.
Coleco enjoyed putting out shitty games for the 2600, then doing great versions of them for the Colecovision. The company released two games for the Colecvision based on the Cabbage Patch Kids property. One of them was on its way to the 2600 when the game world crashed, and the project was canceled. no one has ever played the 2600 version.
And now I own what I believe to be the only collection of prototypes for the game.
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.
I've might have spotted an 8bit Atari at a computer party around that time, but I never saw one close up or played around with one until the end of 2011, when I got this one from a Swedish auction-site.
This is the Atari 600 XL, a 6502 based 8bit computer from the early eighties with Swedish characters. Unfortunately the keyboard is broken on this one, the circuit board got a crack in it and several of the switches for the keys are broken and would need repairing. Apart from that it seems to work OK, I got it with a cartridge game and that one runs nicely on it.
This one is now sold as I was lucky to get an 800 XL for free. It will have a new life with a new keyboard.
Scanned and retouched this old Atari fold-out catalog poster for a friend. Thought I'd share. Giant, full size scan!
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.
Atari 2600 PCB composite. I photographed it from the top and bottom, cropped each to the correct size rectangle at 300dpi (perspective-corrected), and overlaid them.
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.
This is my Atari ST on Twitter. Its connecting via my Linux server over a serial terminal session. Its kinda cheating, but I dont have ethernet for my ST.
Dont forget to checkout www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.