Free Atari!!!
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I still have the original. I don't throw anything away.
My mom probably still has our original Atari console etc. I will have to ask her. I bought one of those cheap plug and play Pong games for hubby and I but it wasn't the same.... the good old days!
I have one too, but not sure if it still works. I used to love River Raid and Pitfall.
There is a great documentary called "Game Over" that is about the legend of the E.T. game killing the company and all the excess copies getting dumped into a New Mexico landfill. It interviews a lot of the programmers and owners of Atari. It's also a good history of the rise and fall of the company. Pretty funny too. You should check it out if you haven't seen it.
Info on it: "Signal to Noise" Atari: Game Over (TV Episode 2014) - IMDb
There are a few others, too. I got one that has asteroids, centipede and a couple other games. It's just a joystick with AV connectors (which is what you're talking about too, I think.). The one I have looks identical to the original games on the home system.
Starmaster (Activision) was my favorite game for the Atari 2600.
I still have my Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer. I wrote a basic program for monthly standard cost deviation calculations that saved 5 days worth of work. It impressed the company's accounting department so they bought an IBM PC for $6,000, but I wasn’t allowed to use it for fear I would eliminate some accounting jobs.
I still have my Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer. I wrote a basic program for monthly standard cost deviation calculations that saved 5 days worth of work. It impressed the company's accounting department so they bought an IBM PC for $6,000, but I wasn’t allowed to use it for fear I would eliminate some accounting jobs.
Activision had some great games. I had a friend who had the Intellivision system which was pretty ahead of its time then. Colecovision was what became Nintendo.
I used to write programs to run in PC/MSDOS and BASIC when I was a youngster. I tried to get away fro computers when i went into Health Care, but somehow wound up working with them again for a living.
Believe it or not, I used to have a n Apple I computer kit. It wasn't complete. A friend of my Dad's gave it to me to try to figure out. I wrote to Apple and tried to get the parts I needed, but they didn't make them any more. When we moved to a new town in 1984, my mom made me get rid of it and we gave it to a Goodwill or something. Now of course, it's be worth thousands if I had kept it.
I used to write programs to run in PC/MSDOS and BASIC when I was a youngster. I tried to get away fro computers when i went into Health Care, but somehow wound up working with them again for a living.
Believe it or not, I used to have a n Apple I computer kit. It wasn't complete. A friend of my Dad's gave it to me to try to figure out. I wrote to Apple and tried to get the parts I needed, but they didn't make them any more. When we moved to a new town in 1984, my mom made me get rid of it and we gave it to a Goodwill or something. Now of course, it's be worth thousands if I had kept it.
LOL, wow. Never saw that before......nope, nothing wrong here....
...nope, nothing wrong here....
Is that real? If so, all I can say is wow.......
...I was completely astonished at the complete incorrectness and idiocy of it...yeah I did chuckle but damn!
Yeah, I laughed too (I'm twisted that way) but I'd never expect an ad like like that to ever see the light of day.
You can tell that the world moved on with ads.
We still have an original Atari system.
I can't help it. God help me, this cracks me up...
I loved asteroids!
Stevie Wonder has a great sense of humor. Most of the SNL skits were blocked. (Playing tennis, the camera commercial one) too funny.
Stevie Wonder has a great sense of humor. Most of the SNL skits were blocked. (Playing tennis, the camera commercial one) too funny.