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212170 2004-02-01 23:10:00 Gidday everyone,

Does anyone know of any good websites or disscussion groups that deal with the Atari 2600 Gaming console?

I have been given one that isn't putting out any sound and would like some help.

Cheers!
Darcy (1040)
212171 2004-02-01 23:32:00 the games are so old and graphics chunky its better to sell it or give away get a atari 800xl or even better a PC kiwibeat (304)
212172 2004-02-02 01:24:00 Don't listen to kiwibeat, I too like playing on old game consoles :)

Try here (www.atariage.com)

Have a search through and see if anyone else has had a similar problem otherwise just post a message and I'm sure you'll get some help.
CYaBro (73)
212173 2004-02-02 02:48:00 Thanks Guy's!

Yes, understand that the graphics are chunky and the games are old.
But that's the whole reason i'm keeping it, for nostalgic reason's!

I blast from the past you might say! Trying to re-live my childhood.
I can remember when these things first came out and were too expensive for my folks to get me one!

Anyway me and my 3yr old will have a ball, have already, not too complicated for him.

I nice transition before I get him/us an X-Box or PS2 next christmas [Maybe]

Cheers
Darcy.
Darcy (1040)
212174 2004-02-02 03:09:00 I do remember as a child me and my brother were gven an atari 2600 for christmas.....we were the envy of the entire town.

..........HA.


well not quite but it was cutting edge tech in its day.Games were super expensive too,ranging from 80 to 100 bucks if i remember rightly,must have been a huge outlay back in.......hmmm....i would guess 1978?

Might ring up the nurse and tell them to give my old boy an extra helping of desert tonight.....




.......................HAx2
metla (154)
212175 2004-02-02 03:09:00 In Google, use the Groups button, then search for "atari 2600". The first posting you'll get from that is by someone who has a web site dedicated to Atari 2600. Graham L (2)
212176 2004-02-02 08:24:00 I used to have an 800XL in my younger days, and I absolutely loved it. Among my favourite games were:
Tapper
Blueprint
Cosmic Tunnels
Donkey Kong
Pharoh's Curse

Anyone else like to share their favourites? I was thrilled when I recently found an Atari emulator for my late model Macintosh but, alas, it wasn't very reliable. Still a nice blast from the past, though.
Alasta (1420)
212177 2004-02-02 19:52:00 i played ET for the 2600.... i mean... what a crap game!

lol the even better thing though is that while there were 10 million atari consoles in homes, atari made 12 million copies of the game!?!? They had to bury all the unsold copies in the desert...


- David
DangerousDave (697)
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