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Atari 2600 was a "Video Computer System" created by Atari in the late 70s as an attempt to prove that it is in fact possible to sell something substandard and make tons of money despite having failed at it before (see Atari 1300 project). Using chips from various pong systems, the 2600 was able to display over three rectangles at a time and keep score for numbers ranging from 0 - 14 before crashing due to register overflow. This caused the common color flip of death (CFOD) signifying the end of a game, although Atari claimed that it was a feature designed to prevent television screens from freezing over (known also by its technical term "ghosting") with the rather static graphics. Also Atari can't kill you in your sleep.

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  • Atari 2600 was a "Video Computer System" created by Atari in the late 70s as an attempt to prove that it is in fact possible to sell something substandard and make tons of money despite having failed at it before (see Atari 1300 project). Using chips from various pong systems, the 2600 was able to display over three rectangles at a time and keep score for numbers ranging from 0 - 14 before crashing due to register overflow. This caused the common color flip of death (CFOD) signifying the end of a game, although Atari claimed that it was a feature designed to prevent television screens from freezing over (known also by its technical term "ghosting") with the rather static graphics. Also Atari can't kill you in your sleep.
  • Doom for the Atari 2600, also referred to as Doom 2600 or 2600 Doom, was a hoax that circulated the internet around 1997 in the form of an advertisement. To date, no attempt has actually been made to bring Doom to the Atari 2600, either as a source port or a fan-made game.
  • A third Smurf videogame, Smurfette's Birthday, was planned for this system, but was unreleased. Coleco released a clone of the Atari 2600 called the Coleco Gemini. Systems like the Atari 5200, ColecoVision, and Intellivision can play Atari 2600 games through expansion modules, while the Atari 7800 is instantly backwards compatible with the Atari 2600.
  • Das Atari 2600 ist der Vorgänger des Atari 5200 und kam in vielen Videos des Angry Video Game Nerds vor, wie in Texas Chainsaw Massacre oder Halloween. Das Atari 2600, fälschlicher Weise oftmals nur als Atari bezeichnet, besitzt eine Bibliothek, aus ca. 750 Spielen, welche alle eine qualitativ (aus heutiger Sicht) schlechte Grafik aufweisen und manchmal verwirren können.
  • right|250pxLa Atari 2600 fue una consola creada por Atari y para competir contra la TV-Game 6 de Nintendo y la SG-1000 de Sega, fue lanzada en 1977 en EUA y vendió mas de 30 millones de copias.
  • The Atari 2600 was retired on January 1, 1992.
  • O jogo Star Wars: Ewok Adventures também foi feito para o Atari 2600, mas nunca fora lançado.
  • thumb|300px El Doom para Atari 2600, también conocido como Doom 2600 o 2600 Doom, era una broma que circuló en internet alrededor de 1997 en la forma de un anuncio. Hasta la fecha, realmente no se ha hecho ningún intento para portar el juego Doom a la Atari 2600, ya sea como un source port o como un juego hecho por fans.
  • The Atari 2600 or Atari VCS (Video Computer System) was a game console released on October of 1977. The four Star Wars games released on the Atari 2600 are: * Star Wars: Death Star Battle * Star Wars: Jedi Arena * Star Wars: The Arcade Game * Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back The game Star Wars: Ewok Adventure was also made for the Atari 2600, although it was never released.
  • The Atari 2600 or Atari VCS (Video Computer System) was released in October of 1977. File:Atari 2600.jpg The four Star Wars games were released on the Atari 2600 are: * Star Wars: Death Star Battle * Star Wars: Jedi Arena * Star Wars: The Arcade Game * Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back The game Star Wars: Ewok Adventure was also made for the Atari 2600, although it was never released.
  • Der (oder das) Atari 2600 war eine Spielkonsole des Unternehmens Atari, zunächst auch bekannt als VCS für Video Computer System; in Deutschland wurde das Gerät meistens einfach Atari genannt. Die Bezeichnung „2600“ wurde erst eingeführt, als Atari 1982 das Nachfolgemodell, den Atari 5200 (nur in den USA) auf den Markt brachte. Der Atari 2600 war die erste erfolgreiche programmierbare Spielekonsole für den Heimgebrauch. (Die vorher verbreiteten Pong-Konsolen hatten nur fest vorgegebene Spielmöglichkeiten, keine Module; das kurz vor dem Atari erschienene Channel F akzeptierte Module, konnte sich aber am Markt nicht durchsetzen.) 2005 veröffentlichte Atari Interactive den Atari-Flashback, eine Konsole ohne Modulschacht, die 20 vorinstallierte Spiele der Atari-2600- und -7800-Konsolen enthält.
  • L'Atari 2600 (altresì detta Atariduemilaseicento), è una console per videogiochi che, tra alto e basso Medioevo, ha spopolato grazie al distributore di caffè installato nella Cippiù. Andò fuori produzione nel 1896 perché erano finiti i joystick.
  • The Atari 2600 (originally known as the Atari VCS which stood for Video Computer System) was Atari's first and most successful videogame console. It was powered by a 6507 and had a cartridge slot; 2 joystick ports; TV mode toggle switch (which toggled between black & White and color); two difficulty toggles; and a TV RF-Jack. Due to the type of port, many machines controllers were at least physically compatible with the Atari 2600. There are many clones of the 2600, also Atari made the [[Atari 2700] which were the same system with prototype hardware. Atari 2800 was the Japanese Atari 2600.
  • We'll tell you what we do know, however. It was made of stuff. Most likely techno-stuff. And this stuff allowed people to play video shames. We believe the video shames played on the Atari 2600 were very pixely and did not have much to do in them (not unlike Minecraft).
  • The console had very good games. It had the Pong game, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Donkey Kong. The console was made to rival with the Magnavox Odyssey II, starting something called the First Game Console War, in which game companies rivalled to see who made the best console. In 1983, the console's games were scrapped and put in landfill sites, starting a mass recession called the Video Game Crash of 1983. Atari went bankrupt and had to discontinue the console in 1983. The console has become a symbol of the crash. The console can be sold in retail shops as of today.
  • Ecco arrivato un esemplare in buone condizioni per rappresentare degnamente un vero mito. Non potevamo rinunciare alla superba versione in radica di questa progenitrice del mondo console, protagonista sulle scene videoludiche dal 1977 al 1981. 0,1k equipaggiano questa meraviglia (la ram aggiuntiva era presente nelle cartucce) Questo vecchio esemplare è una seconda serie, caratterizzata dai 4 interruttori a levetta e dalla dicitura Video Computer System stampigliata in caratteri argentati. Entrambi sono ben funzionanti.
  • Image:Atarilogo.png The Atari 2600, released in October 1977, is the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or more games built in. The first game console to use exchangeable plug-in cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F, and the RCA Studio II also predates the 2600. However, it was the Atari 2600 that made the plug-in concept popular among the game-playing public. Originally known as the Atari VCS—for Video Computer System—the machine's name was changed to "Atari 2600" (from the unit's Atari part number, CX2600) in 1982, after the release of the more advanced Atari 5200. It was wildly successful, and during the 1980s, "Atari" was a synonym for this model in mainstream media. The 2600 was typically bundled with two joystick controllers, a conjo
  • Ah, good old 2600 — originally called the Video Computer System, or VCS, but widely know simply as "the Atari". Folks, this is the definition of classic gaming. It's impressive to see how far some developers have pushed a machine with a measly 128 bytes of RAM - yes, one 8192th of a megabyte. To put this in perspective: if you combined the RAM of every 2600 console ever produced (some 30 million units), you'd get 3.6 GB, less than one typical PC nowadays. Unfortunately, it has the most shovelware of any console to date, so we're here to help you pick the right games from those garage sale bins.
  • The Atari Video Computer System, commonly known as the Atari 2600, is a cartridge-based video game console made by Atari. The Angry Video Game Nerd owns at least one and has reviewed several games for it. It was released on October 14, 1977 as one of the first second-generation consoles in North America. One of the most notorious games produced for the Atari 2600, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, is the focus of the upcoming Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, which will feature an appearance by the game's programmer, Howard Scott Warshaw.
  • The Atari Video Computer System, later known as the Atari 2600, but best known as just the "Atari" during its heyday, was the first really successful home video game console system, and only the second to feature interchangeable ROM cartridges that allowed new games to be published and installed without modifying the basic system itself. It also featured plug-in controllers that could be swapped out, allowing new kinds of controllers to be later introduced. Originally, just ten games were planned for it. The idea was to make a better system down the line to replace it eventually but the success of the system changed everything.
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