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Who here remembers the Atari 2600? It turned 35 years old today.
The countless hours of my youth playing those silly but wonderfully entertaining games.
Who here still plays it on occasion besides me?
What is or was your favorite game? Mine was Asteroids.
We had a Sears Video Arcade if any of you remember that one. It came with Target Fun instead of Combat so everybody thought my brother and I were weird when we went to other people's houses and we actually WANTED to play Combat.
I liked Moon Patrol, Joust and Dig Dug. I also remember the gross disappointment when we got PAC Man and then again finding out years later that Namco dumbed it down intentionally to save Arcade revenue.
Who here remembers the Atari 2600? It turned 35 years old today.
The countless hours of my youth playing those silly but wonderfully entertaining games.
Who here still plays it on occasion besides me?
What is or was your favorite game? Mine was Asteroids.
You still have yours AND it still works?
Between the video games and the birth of cd's 30 years ago, I'm starting to feel old and I ain't old! LOL...my favorites were Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede and of course, Donkey Kong (who knew Mario and Peach would come this far!)
I had the 7800 and it was able to play the 2600 games. Although the 2600 seems to be the one everyone remembers. I bet most of the Atari 2600s still work, probably because there was not too much inside them and the plastic was thicker. See them on eBay a lot...my brother in law bought a few, one of them was still new in the box.
Yep mine does still work. Oh yeah Pitfall was good and I did get into that secret room in Adventure. How video games have evolved but it is still fun to maneuver that little square around and avoid the dragons.
The 2600 was over $100 wasn't it and I remember the hot games like pacman was like $60. ALot of money back in the 80's.
I also liked Stampede and soem of the other Activision games made for Atari.
Last year my wife bought Xbox kinect mainly for the Netflix and it is amazing but kinda scary the way it scans you. For Awhile we had the Xbox setup in one room and the Atari in another along with Nintendo and we played the Atari more. We haven't played anything in a long time. But when guests come over and they have a choice we play Atari 2600. It Rocks!
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) are probably at the top of my list.
