#atari 2600

[gameraboy2]

Final Approach for the Atari 2600

[retroremastered]

[redbeardace]

I was looking at a bunch of Activision Atari 2600 boxes the other day, and it struck me that despite them all having prominent stripes, none of those stripes had become the colors of a pride flag yet.

So I fixed that.

I bring you:

Queer Kaboom

Trans Barnstorming

Asexual River Raid

Non-Binary Megamania

Aromantic Pitfall

[nintendroid]

You can watch a movie on your Atari 2600 now. Yes really.

MovieCart is an Atari 2600 cartridge developed by Lodef Mode that allows you to load custom movies to it and play them on your real-life, honest-to-goodness Atari 2600 console.

Even if you don't want to go through the trouble of converting and loading your own movie onto the cart via SD card, the SD card bundled with MovieCart comes with Night of the Living Dead preloaded!

Check out a demo here

They're sold out for now but keep an eye on Lodef's Tindie shop for future sales.

[yodaprod]

Atari 2600 production line, Ireland (1982)

Source: Youtube/CR's Video Vaults

[sexygrammaticalerrors]

[panda-pal]

Berzerk (1982) Developed by Stern Electronics

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Stan Lee and friends playing Spider-Man on the Atari 2600 (1982)

[humanoidhistory]

1983 postcard from Activision.

[pluralzalpha]

I really think we lost something in game console design over the years. Maybe it's just the retro appeal after the fact, or secondhand nostalgia for parents' and cousins' machines I played with as a kid, but I love the look of the consoles in the 70s and 80s. Sure, some of them were ugly as sin, but some of them were gorgeous.

The Magnavox Odyssey, released 1972. The Odyssey series were true games centres, and came with games boards and accessories as combo boardgame/video games. This thing just looks futuristic, even fifty years later.

The Odyssey 300, one of its successors. Who says the 70s were all brown? This one came out in 1976, so we're still in preprogrammed consoles here.

The TV Tennis or Electrotennis, by Epoch Co. Released in Japan in 1975, the country's first home console. All these games were basically tennis games, like the classic:

Atari Home Pong Tele-Game. Simple, clean, means business.

The Color-TV Game Block Kuzushi. This was part of the first series of Nintendo consoles. This particular one was released in 1979 and played a Breakout-clone. Shigeru Miyamoto codesigned this one, two years before creating Donkey Kong.

The Fairchild Video Entertainment System or Channel F from 1975. I love the wood veneer finish. We should bring that back. Pure 70s. This was the first console to use game cartridges, and the first console with a pause control!

The Bally Astrocade. Also known by various other names, but "Astrocade" is unbeatable. Released in 1977, discontinued, then relaunched around '82. Very sophisticated for its time, with 28 "Videocades" available holding one or two games each.

The Atari 2600, AKA Atari VCS and Tele-Games Video Arcade. Released in 1977, and it looks like it. It looks like it's made of chocolate.

The Epoch Cassette Vision, a strange cart-based console from Japan in 1981. It played a bunch of arcade knockoffs but looked sleek and futuristic doing it.

The original Nintendo Game & Watch, playing Ball, released in 1980. Created by the legend Gunpei Yokoi, who also invented the D-Pad!

More to come I feel, these are just too beautiful.

[vintage-tech]

Atari lore is that there were more copies of Pac-Man produced than Atari 2600 units to play them, and when including Pac-Man as a pack-in game alongside Combat wasn't depleting the stack fast enough -- and E.T. was also over-produced and underwhelming --- tons of these titles were dumped in a landfill in the Alamogordo, New Mexico desert with some other overstock. Pac-Man and E.T. were examples of games rushed to market which, no offense to Tod Frye or HSW, needed a bit more time and programming trickery to be what they were being promoted as and having good gameplay.

What I'm getting to here is that there's no unsealed copy of Atari 2600 Pac-Man (which wasn't excavated) that is worth $100.

[gameraboy2]

1978 ad for the Atari 2600

[commodorez]

[thevideogameartarchive]

We went through an Atari 1981 Catalog back in December last year - now we have another one! This is the cover artwork.

[abgcomics]

happy march 10th! i remastered the atari 2600 jump man walk cycle for no reason!!

[nintendumpster]