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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: RobbyMac on May 13, 2010, 10:35:17 pm

Title: Found an old 2600 box in the attic!
Post by: RobbyMac on May 13, 2010, 10:35:17 pm

Been pretty busy and hadn't had time to check the forums lately, but thought I'd drop in to post this litle find buried under some insulation in my attic. too bad it was empty  ;)

fair to poor condition. Suprisingly well considering it's been in the attic all these years, but at least it's not all torn n stuff.
Wife had her cam, so I used my 13$ ebay camera for these quickie snapshots

(http://www.mcewenclan.com/other/ataribox02.jpg)

(http://www.mcewenclan.com/other/ataribox01.jpg)

Title: Re: Found an old 2600 box in the attic!
Post by: Gorotsuki on May 13, 2010, 10:44:30 pm

So that's what the box looked like.
Played the system to death as a small child.

Title: Re: Found an old 2600 box in the attic!
Post by: Level42 on May 16, 2010, 05:17:30 pm

Yep. I remember clearly pressing my nose against the store window to look at all the games on that box and drooling over it !
It was like a holy grail to me. Took a while (and a price drop) 'till we (my brother and I) could get it.
That one is still at my parents' attic but I don't believe I still have the box....

Title: Re: Found an old 2600 box in the attic!
Post by: hypernova on May 31, 2010, 10:36:38 am

With technology nowadays, I still find it funny they used the term "computer" to describe these things back then.   :D

Title: Re: Found an old 2600 box in the attic!
Post by: Level42 on June 02, 2010, 05:22:00 pm

Well, although it probably was mostly a marketing word, technically it is correct.

I think they may wanted to make it look different from the game system like the Oddesey that was just a bunch of analogue circuits.
Although this is now recognized as the first video game system, I still don't agree. It doesn't have any logic at all. It's just some dots and stripes on the screen produced by analogue stuff. That's not a video game IMHO, but then again who decides about the definition of a video game ?

Title: Re: Found an old 2600 box in the attic!
Post by: THE POKER BRAT on June 11, 2010, 02:11:20 pm

HEY ROB,..YOU SHOULD CUT OUT THE FRON PART OF THE BOX AND FRAME IT..sorry for the caps,..i just got too exited!...lol

Title: Re: Found an old 2600 box in the attic!
Post by: west on June 22, 2010, 01:31:15 pm

as kids,we played a lot of pong,  but when this thing came out we went completely nuts,easily 10 to 15 kids at the house waiting to play a game of combat.
amazing how they have reduced the console and several games to the size of one controller.
I had kept it in perfect condition in the near perfect box for over 20 years before i sold it for change. :lol