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Dinosaur Sighting: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System

by Mark Kaelin | 04-08-08

Tags: Dinosaur sighting, off topic, geekend, Atari 2600, game consoles

An icon of console gaming

An icon of console gaming

Video games are a multi-million dollar business these days. But this booming industry owes much of its current success to a simple little console first sold in October 1977 called the Atari 2600 Video Computer System. By today's standards, Atari games are not much to look at, but their simple game play is still addictive, especially when nostalgia for this dinosaur gaming console kicks in.

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power adapter drumahboy@... | 04/09/08

Possibility Mark W. Kaelin

| 04/10/08

Got the adapter Mark W. Kaelin

| 04/10/08

Tragic dcolbert@... | 04/11/08

Try this someguy200190210 | 04/11/08

Toss that RF switch, get an adaptor averykess@... | 04/23/08

RF Converter bjs_z | 04/23/08

Still Works hshaffer@... | 04/14/08

RE: I remember (Dinosaur Sighting: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System) someguy200190210 | 04/11/08

RE: I remember (Dinosaur Sighting: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System) fgonza1971@... | 04/11/08

Dinosaur sighting? Crap! WoW > Work | 04/11/08

Dinosaur sighting? csumbler | 04/11/08

'77 is old? rjbarry | 05/19/08

Thanks! dave@... | 04/14/08

RE: I remember (Dinosaur Sighting: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System) mburton325 | 04/14/08

Time flies... Gravitywell | 04/16/08

Makeshift Atari joystick--thanks Sega! mrh829@... | 04/16/08

Atari Joystick broke a lot cblake@... | 05/05/08

The Atari Console Might be Extinct..... dukethepcdr@... | 04/24/08

I remember that egmccann@... | 05/02/08

RE: I remember (Dinosaur Sighting: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System) sunny.gene@... | 04/27/08

I took mine apart after a year. Rowan Hawkins | 04/30/08

RE: I remember (Dinosaur Sighting: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System) Homealone | 05/05/08

RE: I remember (Dinosaur Sighting: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System) PIXguy | 05/07/08

COLECO VISION VI-Tech | 05/12/08

Coleco Vision Don Dean | 05/13/08

Coleco Telstar spiritit@... | 05/15/08

The Fun is Back, oh yes sireee... The 'G-Man.' | 05/15/08

RE: Playing it daily ahicks@... | 05/19/08

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