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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.
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. :)
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.
Scanned and retouched this old Atari fold-out catalog poster for a friend. Thought I'd share. Giant, full size scan!
The full-sized image is available for download at my website.
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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.
I had this brilliant idea for a nerdy art piece (not gonna describe it, but those who get it get it) and as a result needed to go through my Atari cartridges to see if I had any duplicates. Yes, definitely, once sorted I trimmed the number of Pitfall II: Lost Caverns cartridges from 3 to 1. But I still didn't have what I was looking for. Kind of expected that.
(10 not-pictured cartridges, three which aren't dupes, are available from me...)
And no, I don't own Combat, Pac-Man, or E.T. -- those are literally a dollar a dozen. But now I must find a "Combat Zone" thrift store where I can get that price since, uh, most of the thrifts have been throwing out cartridges in the last few years.
69/365