atari 2600
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Doubt And Drama Still Haunt An Old, Seemingly Impossible Atari World Record
3The current world record for the Atari 2600 racing game Dragster is 5.51 seconds. Thirty-five years after it was set, nobody has beaten or even tied it on official leaderboards. One speedrunner who has examined the game’s inner workings believes that world record to be impossible, but the game’s creator thinks it’s legitimate. For now,…
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Mortal Kombat. For The Atari 2600.
If Mortal Kombat went back in time and made sweet love to Pitfall, the result would look something like this.
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The Games My Mother Played
(Originally published May 11, 2008) May 1st 1980 I came home from school to find my mother waiting there for me, a giddy smile on her lips. She always loved birthdays. Back then we were living in an apartment, my younger sister and I sharing one room, my older brother and sister sometimes sharing another,…
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The Activision Action Figures The Atari Age Deserved
We should have gotten action figure tie-ins for every game Activision released on the Atari 2600, but we didn’t, because marketers were stupid back then. Dan from Chicago Toy Collector makes up for the oversight with this killer custom G.I. Joes. Can you guess which figure goes with which game?