When I grow up, I totally want to be this dude:
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I had this cartridge, in like 1980 or something. It was pretty weak: you could do loops and move a thumb-sized pixel around the screen, but it ran out of memory before you could do anything really interesting. It filled me with prepubescent disappointment, let me tell you.
what!?! your ass didn't learn basic out of the back of 3-2-1 contact, like the rest of us?
sheeeetttt
Sunnyvale? So Matthew Broderick was trying to break into Atari in War Games.
ahhh.. those were the days.. I don't remeber seeing the keypad for the atari.. had an atari 800 basic cartrige.. some compute mags, and some free time ;)
whee
thanks for the memories ;)
I can't help but think this guy was a chick magnet in his heyday.
I learned my letters typing in games like Centurion and Maximillian B. from Antic Magazine on my Atari 800. I even had a 5.25" floppy drive and a memory expansion cartridge for that bad boy. Can you say Karateka? Mask of the Sun?
http://www.atariguide.com
Great site with a fairly complete alphabetical listing of the games, screen shots, rom files, instructions and an overview of the game.
I finally broke down and bought my 2600 about a year ago and have about 50 games now. I thought I was going to get laughed at but instead I got high fives from the guys and requests to come over and play. My personal favorites so far are Plaque Attack and Empire Strikes Back.
I picked up a 2600 a few years ago too! I had sold my old one at some point. One thing I was sad to learn about it is that it doesn't work very well on a video projector: I guess the LCD de-interlacing screws up the frame rate or something, because you just can't see anything that is only one pixel wide -- such as the missles in Space Invaders. That makes it kind of hard to play...
My original Amiga 1000 was still working up until last year. Then it sat for a while, and when I turned it on about four months ago, and the magic smoke leaked out. Very sad. I really wanted to play Lemmings, and now (one of these days) I'll have to get an emulator installed to do that...
Heh good for you! I was pleasantly surprised to find that picking up carts isn't that hard and you can get a lot of them new in the box. There are also places that sell boxes and manuals so you can put your set together again when you have the time. Some guy on ebay awhile back was selling something like 200 games all in the boxes with manuals and the thing topped out at somewhere around $5k. (mouth dropped open on floor)
I've had some really good luck finding what I want for reasonable prices at the following locations:
http://tomheroes.com/Video%20Games%20FS/video%20games/Atari/2600.htm
http://www.gooddealgames.com/inventory/2600.html
http://half.ebay.com/search/search.jsp?product=all&keyword=atari+2600&x=8&y=6&meta_id=4
http://www.art-fool.com/atari_2600.htm
Oh and this is a fun one:
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/arcade.htm