Atari is BACK!

[Dave in VA]

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Gaming like it’s 1977 again!

From Atari Interactive, Inc. comes the Atari 2600+, the highly anticipated refresh of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), Atari’s legendary console that was first released in September 1977. Launching on Nov. 17 and retailing for $130 at Atari, the Atari 2600+ ships with the console, a standard controller and a 10-in-1 games cartridge. The cartridge includes the following games: Adventure, Combat, Dodge ’Em, Haunted House, Maze Craze, Missile Command, Realsports Volleyball, Surround, Video Pinball and Yars’ Revenge.

The timing of the Atari 2600+ couldn’t be better. Retrogaming — that is, playing video games from the 20th century — is alive and well in the here and now. Retrogamers enjoy the nostalgia, the simplicity of the gameplay and, in some cases, the pulse-pounding challenge. Sure, these games may be older, but at times, they required the brains of a Cray supercomputer combined with the reflexes of a tween hopped up on Pop Rocks. (We’re looking at you, Gravitar, with some serious side-eye.)

More at the link:

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/atari-2600-plus

[AllaN01Bear]

1. but can it do b.a.s.i.c? next u will have to upgrade and upgrade again.

[Shermann]

3. I had the BASIC cartridge for the Atari 800

I think the 2600 cartridge was too basic even for BASIC. Nobody had that.

[DiJee]

11. Damn, I Used To Program In BASIC A Few Million Years Ago

Used time-shared teletypes, and saved to paper tape.

Damn I'm old.

[Shermann]

12. I did have the Atari 810 floppy disk drive

That obsoleted the clunky 410 tape recorder as a part of the first really usable system configuration.

I'm pretty old for having had one of those but the punched cards and tape or whatever were before my time.

[gay texan]

2. Adventure!!!

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[AZSkiffyGeek]

4. I recently got a 50th Anniversary Atari collection for XBox

It has close to 100 games, arcade, 2600, 5200 and more. Had loads of fun playing Dodge-Em, Asteroids, and Centipede still remembered the exact map of Adventure, and how to find the secret room.

[Archae]

9. I have that also.

Sure is fun at times, playing those old games.

[Docreed2003]

5. Imma hold off until they fix the E.T. Game

[hunter]

6. It's fixed...

here:

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/

I was was never a 2600 guy.

The Atari 800 was my favorite computer ever. I still have my complete maxed out eight bit systems in storage.

I've also got most of the computers I've used since the 'seventies emulated on my Linux desktop.

I can click the Atari Icon on my desktop, load a game cartridge image, and play as I did in the early 'eighties.

[Docreed2003]

7. Damn...my inner child really wants to play the fixed version

[Shermann]

8. That dude is an "E.T. apologist"

I still recall the feeling of disappointment playing that game as a kid. I only got so many new games per year, so getting a stinker was a real setback. That got to be more and more problematic leading into the video game crash of 1983. That was a real thing.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Atari 800 in Debian...

https://packages.debian.org/stable/atari800

Package: atari800 (5.0.0-1)
Atari 8-bit emulator for SDL

Atari800 is an emulator of Atari 8-bit computer systems including the 400, 800, 1200XL, 600XL, 800XL, 65XE, 130XE, 800XE and the XE Game System, and also of the Atari 5200 SuperSystem console.

The Atari Operating System ROMs are not available with this package, due to copyright. You'll have to either make copies of them from an old Atari computer, or see README.Debian for other ways to obtain them.