atari 2600
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LEGO Atari 2600 Preorders Are Now Live, If You’d Like To Wait In A Queue Like It’s 1982
Preorders for that LEGO Atari 2600 kit we told you about last week have just gone live on the LEGO website, and the site is already straining under the number of people trying to get in. The site is currently so besieged with people trying to preorder the kit that it had to resort to…
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Looking Back On The Hypnotic Charm Of Breakout
Pilgrim In The Microworld, a 1983 book by professor, sociologist, and musician David Sudnow, was far ahead of its time. As a book-length digression on a single video game—Breakout for the Atari 2600—it took the emerging medium seriously at a time when it was largely dismissed as a mere fad on the verge of dying.
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In 2018, Even The Atari 2800 Is Getting New Cartridges
Image: Astronomer/Alex Pietrow Meet Astronomer. It’s an indie game from 2017 that’s getting a physical release this year – on the Atari 2600.
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Super Rare Atari 2700 Found At California Thrift Store
Image via eBay According to Redditor L064N, he was shopping at a thrift store in Oceanside, California last week when he came across a very strange Atari console. Some quick Googling told him it was a rare prototype for the Atari 2700, an un-produced wireless follow-up to the 2600. He bought it for $US30 ($38).