Atari 2600

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IndyColtsFan

IndyColtsFan

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Don Vito Corleone said:
I remember being terribly excited about the debut of Pac-Man for the 2600, and when it came out, trying desperately to talk myself into the idea that it was good despite its actual horribleness. What a flaming pile that game was . . .

In retrospect it's remarkable to me that my parents bought me so many 2600 games. Weren't the premier titles $50, in early-80s dollars?
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I thought the premier titles were $29.99 or $34.99 back in the 80s, but my memory is fuzzy.
 
Fritzo

Fritzo

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Don Vito Corleone said:
I remember being terribly excited about the debut of Pac-Man for the 2600, and when it came out, trying desperately to talk myself into the idea that it was good despite its actual horribleness. What a flaming pile that game was . . .

In retrospect it's remarkable to me that my parents bought me so many 2600 games. Weren't the premier titles $50, in early-80s dollars?
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They were $29-$39.

At the time, ANYTHING Pacman or Donkey Kong was awesome, no matter how terrible it was. They had stupid Pacman hand held games at the time that were nothing more than mini-arcade cases with static LED's representing characters, and it FLEW off the shelves.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfG8I-qNo2U
 
CZroe

CZroe

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Ichinisan said:
The RCA jack carries the same signal as a coaxial cable, so a simple adapter from Radio Shack will do. I think a Nintendo RF switch might even do the job.
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This, and few people need the switch function these days anyway. Seriously: Few people have a coaxial source to their TVs these days.
 
spacejamz

spacejamz

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CZroe said:
This, and few people need the switch function these days anyway. Seriously: Few people have a coaxial source to their TVs these days.
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I will try this when I get home..still have an original nintendo that works as well...
 
KeithTalent

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Wow, I think I played about 90% of those, which is surprising considering I never owned one of those consoles.

Chopper Command was definitely one of my favourites. Great game!

KT
 
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Bird222

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Those were the days. I never actually had an Atari. I had a Colecovision with the atari adapter, sports controllers and trackball. I still have my Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man mini arcade games. There was a flat blue Pac-Man handheld game before the mini arcade one. Does anyone know who made it?
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

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spacejamz said:
I need to go get one...

My Nintendo still fires up though...

Tetris on a 70" screen....LOL


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If you're stretching to wide-screen, it's not authentic. :colbert:

Also, it may seem strange, but even a cheap CRT will display standard-def games better than the best HDTVs because it can display the correct number of lines. Your TV has to scale the image up, which makes it blurry and nasty (well, more so than it would be on an SDTV). This is very noticeable for N64, Super NES, and NES.
 
spacejamz

spacejamz

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bought the coax to RCA converter and it did the trick LOL

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unfortunately not all of the games work though...

so far, Pac Man, Defender, Beach Volleyball and Berzerk work

Pitfall, Pitfall 2 and Chopper Command don't work...
 
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spidey07

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spacejamz said:
bought the coax to RCA converter and it did the trick LOL



unfortunately not all of the games work though...

so far, Pac Man, Defender, Beach Volleyball and Berzerk work

Pitfall, Pitfall 2 and Chopper Command don't work...
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For the love of god! NOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

I will cry with you, it's ok brother...it will all be OK. Please tell me Yars Revenge made it? If not then it will all NOT be OK. that is NOT OK! It will never be "ok"!
 
spacejamz

spacejamz

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spidey07 said:
For the love of god! NOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

I will cry with you, it's ok brother...it will all be OK. Please tell me Yars Revenge made it? If not then it will all NOT be OK. that is NOT OK! It will never be "ok"!
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Yars made it!!!

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Rubbed some alcohol on the contacts for Pitfall and it fired up!!! YES!!!!!
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

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spacejamz said:
bought the coax to RCA converter and it did the trick LOL

AtariWork.jpg


unfortunately not all of the games work though...

so far, Pac Man, Defender, Beach Volleyball and Berzerk work

Pitfall, Pitfall 2 and Chopper Command don't work...
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If you can expose the contacts on the cartridges, see if you can scrub them with alcohol and a Q-tip cotton swab.
 
Fritzo

Fritzo

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spacejamz said:
bought the coax to RCA converter and it did the trick LOL

AtariWork.jpg


unfortunately not all of the games work though...

so far, Pac Man, Defender, Beach Volleyball and Berzerk work

Pitfall, Pitfall 2 and Chopper Command don't work...
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Try contact cleaner.
 
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BUTCH1

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IndyColtsFan said:
I really need to hook mine up, but I can't seem to find the cartridges.
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Meh, although games back then had to be fun to play the 2600 struggled and was quickly outpaced by the Commodore 64 IMO, better sound, graphics and with a modem and 1541 disk drive you had a real computer..
 
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