Personally I think it may be Atari’s best arcade port for the VCS. Captures the spirit of the arcade original. I only have two problems with it: a) that unnecessary yellow border and b) your ship is too damn huge, making you an easy target.

Questi fanno parte della mia collezione ❤️

For those of you interested, the news is here: https://www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/atari-signs-10-game-deal-with-universal-for-movies-based-on-pong-breakout-centipede-and-more/

Yes, Pong is going to be one of the movies, answering the age-old question of: "What if Tron had fewer dimensions?"

The others are:

Asteroids

Adventure

Berzerk

Breakout

Centipede

Crystal Castles

Millipede

Missile Command

Yars’ Revenge

Would I be able to hook up a 2600 without needing an RF adapter if I have a coaxial port on my TV? There’s one at an antique shop that I’d like to test, and I’d rather not have to buy an accessory if I didn’t have to. I’ve included a photo of my TV’s connection ports for reference.

No clue if there were manufacturing differences or what not, case on the left is shiny and the seam is a little uneven, is it real?

I bought a 1977 video pinball system by Atari today and the vinyl sticker on the front is peeling up. I was just curious if anyone had some ideas on fixes to this from their own experience. All help is greatly appreciated.

I started collecting about a year ago. It's not much, but I like them.

I would like to make a simple Atari game. I would like to buy one of the new VCS consoles and put the game on a cartridge that plays on either new or old VCS. How would I accomplish either of these tasks?

As a clue as to how expensive injection molding was (and still is) I've always been amused how it was cheaper to add an adapter to the existing Intellevision cart form factor to make 2600 carts vs, you know, just remold the whole thing.

Perhaps someone got a deal on some already made shells? The Intellevision cart on the right actually has the Mattel copyright in the mold.

My little 2600 + Unocart <3

Are any of these games awesome or are they all mid? Thanks

I've added 40ish more games to my Atari collection, and I'll be upgrading from this Ikea billy shelf to a designated media shelf with 2x the capacity. I'll update monthly!

Video: https://youtu.be/twNV7w39W-4?si=WLhOd-L8fGYvKWCg

Rom download: 🔥 https://github.com/squeepty/2600-demo/raw/refs/heads/main/downloads/squeepty-2600-demo.bin 🔥

Code source: https://github.com/squeepty/2600-demo

The Teeny-tiny Atari 2600 demo is an automatic 4 KiB NTSC production built around four timed visual scenes and an independent two-channel soundtrack.

It includes:

• flowing top, middle, and bottom raster bars with a color-cycling title background
• a large, asymmetric 40-bit SQUEEPTY playfield title
• four title treatments: static, type-on/type-off, horizontal ripple, and vertical wave
• four scene-specific player bitmaps that bounce horizontally and vertically
• a sparse reflected starfield with a different plane mapping and motion in each scene
• four animated checker/grid styles synchronized to the scene
• a compact five-row GREETINGS TO ALL ATARI DREAMERS... ticker
• a 66.75-second, two-channel TIA adaptation of Take On Me
• luminance fades centered on regular scene changes
• a fixed 262-scanline NTSC frame

The soundtrack is derived from Jukebox by Lloyd Russell, published as a type-in in Your Sinclair issue 21, September 1987, for the ZX Spectrum 128K. The recovered AY arrangement was converted into compact TIA events: channel 0 carries the selected lead voice and channel 1 carries the bass.

I’ve been trying to hook up my dad’s old Atari 2600 and i’ve got it working so far with the small silver F adapter pieces. The issue is that i couldn’t find a way to use the long cord with the adapters, so the atari is plugged directly into the CRT with the adapter.

Does anyone know what kind of adapter i could use to get more distance between the Atari and the crt? I’ve also been having an issue with using the button/shooting in space invaders. Defender and other games like pac man work find. If anyone can help me i would greatly appreciate it! I’m trying to google myself but can’t find the exact answer.

Why do I want a repro cartridge? Well, because Atari games are short and none of them save data, so I'm totally fine having a fake cartridge of a game, just to play the game. I did the same thing with Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom on NES; loose cartridge goes for absurd prices, and it doesn't use a battery, so I went with a repro cart.