Is there any reason to buy an original Atari 2600?
My friend does RGB modding for the system, and it looks damn good. It's made me want one. But looking at it's library of games, they just don't seem like they are actually worth playing more than once or twice for a little bit of time.
There are a lot of fantastic games on Atari depending on your taste. Some interesting ports have been done as well. Check out: Kung Fu, double dragon, berserk, hero, pitfall, frogs and flies, adventure, defender, Mario bros, and river raid. Those games all make an rgb Atari well worth it
No. Just play the crap on emulation.
>>3319013
what
>>3319012
>berserk
Literally made to cause heart failure.
The appeal of Atari isn't obvious until you have a reasonably sized game collection. Bored of one game? Pop in another. It takes like 5 seconds to swap games and you can keep them going in a cycle. That's what a lot of people who owned Atari 2600s in its heyday did, and that's how the simplistic games kept them entertained so long.
>>3319060
Yeah, but, nowadays I don't think that would hold my interest. I probably wouldn't keep coming back to the games I've popped out after playing them once or twice.
It may be worth mentioning that the Intellivision could use an adapter to load Atari 2600 carts, so you'd have access to the libraries of both systems. On the other hand, there were a lot of multi-platform games shared between the two consoles.
>>3319054
Explain
>>3319063
It's worth nothing the 7800 is a better system and can play 2600 games.
>>3319061
You'd be surprised. If you have a friend with a collection, try it out, you may find it's more fun than you think.
A lot of games can be repetitive sure, and lots of games are just one board which increases in difficulty with each successive try. Mastering those games can be very fun
>>3319064
The yellow smiley that chases you through walls rises your heart rate like nothing else on the atari.
>>3319072
DK has at least two unique levels though.
>>3319074
I thought you meant literal heart attacks.
>>3319074
I think that's the appeal
OTTO WILL FUCK YOU UP
I was going to buy an original Atari Heavy Sixer. And then I found out that the contents/guts of the Atari can be modified or just outright replaced. So Ebay sellers could easily say it's a Heavy Sixer because of the shell, while the internals could be much newer/different than the original hardware.
Fucking bullshit.
>>3319081
He sure looks EVIL
He and Sinistar should team up.
>>3319083
Why does that matter? The boards from 1977-1986 look basically the same.
Motherfuckin' Solaris
>>3319086
Heavy Sixers were considerably heavier and built more sturdy. They have more ... Shit.
So I want one of those.
>>3319092
Oh, you mean the RF shielding. Well, I honestly don't know what the point of swapping that out would be, but in the off-chance it happens, the weight will be significantly different, so just file a complaint with eBay saying the weight is significantly different than it should be (just NEVER say you opened it up).
>>3319104
Speaking of eBay sellers being unscrupulous...
Anyone deal with Yamatoku-classic? Obe if the larger eBay Japenese sellers. Quite the dick
>>3319115
Never dealt with him. Got any stories?
>>3319195
Cheats shipping, dosent declare things properly and they get gobbled up by customs and the shipping time...fuckkkk.
>>3319115
yeah, yamatoku's a real shithead. his stuff always looks conveniently better in pictures than in real life. and his shipping is expensive as fuck.
i did have the pleasure of seeing him lose money on a 1300 dollar item at one point though. ultra rare wonderswan game, in a lot full of games, for 36 dollars total.
>>3319001
>and it looks damn good
>2600
Nigga you can't polish a turd.
>> 3319168
I'm very glad to hear that. I can't believe my Famicom from him has been sitting in customs for two weeks....fuck. I wonder how long that will take....and he'll....it'll probably yellow and not white as advertised anyway...
Short list of some great fairly common games.
Space Invaders
Demon Attack
River Raid
Phoenix
Defender
Asteroids
Pitfall
Berzerk
Jr. Pacman
Ms. Pac-Man
Super Breakout
Missile Command
Qbert
Frogger
You should be able to find these with minimal trouble, you'll probably even be able to find the majority of them in a single lot. That should get your collection started.
>>3319174
The Atari Jr is cute. Too bad it's a pain to put an RGB mod in it. If not for that I would have wanted one as my primary Atari, but I settled for a Darth Vader.
>>3319067
Some 2600 games don't play on the 7800. Due to a plastic part that surrounds the cartridge slot some carts won't fit in the slot.
>>3319208
Bigger issue with the Jr model is the buttons which use plastic membrane contacts. They have a tendency to completely stop making contact over time which renders the system near unusable. Only solution is to disassemble the console and try and fix them. I suppose you could mod the system to make them use regular switches but that would ruin the aesthetic.
>>3319208
I remember someone lent me one of those ages ago. After I (quickly) got bored with it me and a mate wrecked it by filling it with hairspray and lighting it up.
Luckily the owner never asked for it back.
>>3319104
The thing is I don't know how heavy an original Heavy Sixer is.
>>3319254
that's why you open it to see if everything is in there, take some photos, and if the some shit is missing, then you close it and say the weight is significantly different; in the mean time you:
-ask your father to dye his hair and take a black&white photo weighting the console with some added shit,
-leave the photo atop a preheated frying pan and under the sun for a day,
-frame the photo in an old frame,
-apply some dust to your cellphone lens,
-take a badly fosuced photo of the framed photo,
-resample to a lower res and edit the EXIF to match an early digital cam,
-and lastly attach the final pic in the retort from ebay employee doubting your claim from yesterday;
-profit $$$$$$$$$$
![Elyria+Chronicle+Telegram+April+27,+1982[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/uxkeaH4.png "Elyria+Chronicle+Telegram+April+27,+1982[1].png")
>>3319078
Still doesn't touch korean MMOs though
Must have played berserk ^^
>>3319210
Just cut around the bottom of the cart on the back - that is what I had to do back in the day to play the Imagic games due to their weird cartridges.
>>3319316
what the fuck are you talking about
MUTHAFUCKING BEAMRIDER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3q6_QBkuI
>>3319001
I notice that the heavy sixer doesn't have that orange border around the cart slot and switches.
The homebrew community on the 2600 produces some amazing stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OErqNnLvFpo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrYmNCAUBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y6vhLDN3dI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvVsk95aCs
>>3319083
Back in the 70s/80s there was this company that would just stick whatever 2600 board they had in whatever 2600 case they had and flooded the market with these half/half machines. I think their name started with an 'A'.
>>3319092
>Base=Shit
All your shit are belong to us?
>>3319254
Mine weighs just a touch over 2kg.
>>3319104
Curious as to why why never say you opened it up?
>>3319115
Never really had a problem with them
>>3319821
>I think their name started with an 'A'
Atari?
>>3319060
This. I don't know the prices for carts now, but I built up a collection pretty quick since most of the games I bought were 2 bucks or less. The games themselves are simplistic and low-investment enough that it can be a pretty fun time to play when drinking with friends. Also I like the myriad of slight variations in rules a lot of the games have, some of them feel more specific than options we get in arcade-like games nowadays. I personally recommend Warlords, you'll just need to get two sets of paddle controllers. It's worth it though, it can be hard to find a good retro 4 player game that everyone can get into.
>>3320847
Warlords is probably one of the best multiplayer games on the system. With 2-3 players everyone can gang up on the computer players who are dumb as shit but the game is really best played with 4 human players.
![2367705-a2600_hauntedhouse_2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JbKuM6L.jpg "2367705-a2600_hauntedhouse_2[1].jpg")
Anybody else playing Haunted House? I'm having trouble following the house layout shown in the manual (linked here): http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Atari_2600/manual/Formated/Haunted_House_-_1981_-_Atari.pdf
It indicates where locked doors are but I find that they're not showing up in the places where they're indicated. I'm playing on Game 3 for the record.
>>3319821
Well, even now, there are people who have original Heavy Sixers with the markings from California on the bottom, and they look totally off or something looks wrong with it. It's just hard to drop 150-200 dollars and not get a fully original console.
>bought my first 2600 today after wanting one for over a decade
>come home and see this thread
>it's not a heavy sixer
>>3321392
>It's just hard to drop 150-200 dollars and not get a fully original console.
Hard to understand why any idiot would spend that much on a VCS, Extreme hipster-ism/Autism if you saw a youtuber vbloging about the 6 switcher and went directly to eBay and paid $200 for a console just to jump on the band wagon.
But I guess its gives you Weeb Cred?
>>3319012
>Kung Fu
Wow this port is impressive as hell, it doesn't look much worse than the NES port.
>>3322208
>Weeb Cred
>Weeb
Do you even know what that means?
>>3322227
>Do you even know what that means?
I'm sorry I should have left the Weebs out of it.They arnt so bad and theri obsession with japan has nothing to do with 17 year old who rush out and buy every console that some v-blogger mentions.
The 6 switcher is truly a Autistic Meme.
I'm perfectly happy with my coleco gemini, wood grain 4-switch and atari 2600 Jr.
Somewhere i have a coleco vision expansion module but its untested as I don't recall owning a coleco vision after about 1987guess dad tossed it as preferred the 2600 and 20-30 games over the 2 we had for the coleco..
But, I never paid more than about $1 for any of this shit and Ive been collecting since I was 6 in 1986 and still have almost every game system my dad ever bought me along with a bunch of stuff I picked up over the years so I guess I should not talk about game collecting since I wasnt there and dont know anything.
>>3322252
Why you think a system that was made in America that largely wasn't sold in Japan except as the 2800 which came later than it should have and against a competing market and flopped is largely barely recognized by Japan.
Do you also think eating apple pie at your southern cajun barbeque in your ford simultaneously watching spaghetti westerns and hollywood flicks and while shooting guns painted with the American flag also jack up your weeb cred?
>>3322260
???; Did that come out of some weird 4 Chan shitpost generator you found on google?.
Makes no sense.
Although you sure seem angry at the mention of weebs.. Isn't there a dating simulator for your MSX you should be playing?.
>>3320651
Yeah, that was it. Thanks.
>>3321392
>people have original H6ers that aren't original
Original potato seal of quality post there champ. Like I said, Atari threw together all sorts of shit and it's all original regardless of what some autists on the internet want to believe. Agreed that $200 for one is fucking insane though. I paid $50 a few years back but that was only because it was NIB.
>>3322252
The Atari is one of the least weeb consoles ever, you fuckwad. It was designed in America by Americans and marketed to an American audience. That's as far from a weeb console as you can get.
>>3322272
>The Atari is one of the least weeb consoles ever, you fuckwad. It was designed in America by Americans and marketed to an American audience. That's as far from a weeb console as you can get.
Again:
>I'm sorry I should have left the Weebs out of it.
But WHY??:
>They arnt so bad and their obsession with japan has nothing to do with 17 year old who rush out and buy every console that some v-blogger mentions.
Now let it go and play some MSX.
>>3322260
>eating apple pie at your southern cajun barbeque in your ford
Here in Canada I drive my mustang to tim hortons for a large double double and a apple fritter
+1 of the fluke image search.
>>3322284
Fukken weeb.
>>3322284
My ass is gonna have some Tim's right now
>>3319001
>Ctrl + F
>No Yar's Revenge
Great game, OP. Would highly recommend.
>>3319001
>Is there any reason to buy an original Atari 2600?
No with the 7800 existing.
![post-17667-128111053082[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/LYgIY40.png "post-17667-128111053082[1].png")
>>3322887
>>3319421
All is not so simple, Grasshoppers.
It's always worth grabbing any vintage console if you run into it for a few bucks.
>>3322926
2600 is also a hell of a lot more common than the 7800 is so the prices are probably a lot more reasonable.
Do note nearly all of the four switch 2600s have an interesting "flaw" that causes the colors to be a little less vibrant than the six switch models. The four switch model left out a resistor between the 6 and 9 pin of the TIA chip which affects the black levels a bit and messes with the contrast on CRTs. Revision 16 of the 2600 includes the resistor.
>>3322926
>always worth
This is true. I did that just as the retro craze was starting. Now I have tons of spares and won't be forced to pay eBay prices if one breaks irreparably. Or I could sell them on eBay and pocket a few grand.
>>3319083
>>3321392
>>3322208
Heavy Sixer owner here, there really isn't any tangible advantages compated to later models. The only thing I notice is that the Heavy Sixer RF output is slightly more colorful, although I wager you would get the same effect with any other model by adjusting the saturation on your TV.
It is cool to own the very first revision of the first mainstream game console, but I don't think it's worth $200. The only reason I have one is because I got it for cheap from someone who didn't realize what it was.
>>3322205
Sorry m8.
>>3323175
Yeah, RF wouldn't matter since my pal does Atari 2600 RGB mods.
>>3322205
Just don't pay a lot of money for them. It doesn't really matter which model you get they're all pretty similar. Six switches are easier to mess with but they might be more expensive. Four switch models are the most common, there's a fuckton of them out there and you can get one for very little.
They were $12 each.
>>3323371
I would have definitely grabbed that Tele-Games branded heavy six for $12.
>>3323379
I still have my original. Dad worked at Sears so I got the Tele-Games versions of everything. Combat? Never heard of it, I had Tank-Plus.
>>3323379
I would have offered $100 for the lot and probably got it without so much as a thought of a counter offer. I would have kept any good stuff and sold the rest to hipsters on eBay for $100 each. Each with one FREE RARE RETRO game (combat) and a cheap Chinese knockoff controller and power supply.
>>3323468
>I would have offered $100 for the lot and probably got it without so much as a thought of a counter offer
No, that's a Savers. You would have paid $12 each plus tax, unless you're in their discount club.
>>3323393
Same except mine's a 4 switch and it was my mom.
>>3323478
You might be surprised goyim
