Took my son to a used video game store. They had tons of Atari 2600 games for sale.

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I have that on emulator and holy hell it is just as bad as it is claimed to be. It’s like a cross between Adventure and Pitfall where you die on the first screen and quit because it has none of the charm of the other two.

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Weird-Girl-675@reddit

Imagine being nine and feeling like a failure because you can’t get E.T out of the box, hole, whatever it was.

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DynamiteWitLaserBeam@reddit

That was me. I didn't necessarily think I was a failure, just that this game was really hard and regret for wasting months of allowances on it. Same with Indiana Jones - those damned tsetse flies.

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Weird-Girl-675@reddit

Never got Indiana. I was just so mad I eight back to River Raid and blowing up tanks.

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elspotto@reddit

Twelve. Same. And for the record, 55, same. lol

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Weird-Girl-675@reddit

Kinda tempted to try again…but I’m sure I’ll still be stuck in that hole.

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m149@reddit

My next door neighbor got that game when it came out.....we were probably 9 or 10.....even then it was awful.

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BeerJedi-1269@reddit

I have my og one, box book everything

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Weird-Girl-675@reddit

I still have mine!!

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Cross_22@reddit

Damn. Beat me to it.

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wriker10@reddit (OP)

🤣

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Lavatis@reddit

Whereabouts is the store? I see genesis games behind these atari ones.

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wriker10@reddit (OP)

Union County, New Jersey

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Lavatis@reddit

Lol, I really thought you were about to say Union County, North Carolina and I was about to trip. Still a funny coincidence.

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wriker10@reddit (OP)

lol

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3mta3jvq@reddit

When I was a kid in the 80s, we made friends by word of mouth as to who had which 2600 games. A friend would show up with kids I didn’t know, but they brought their games in a gym bag. There was always that one kid with Intellivision or Colecovision….

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wriker10@reddit (OP)

Yeah i knew ONE kid with intellivision.

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3mta3jvq@reddit

I remember playing it at the KMart kiosk.

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AintEverLucky@reddit

"Dad, these games all SUCK. My phone has better looking games and they're all FREE" 😒

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wriker10@reddit (OP)

So sadly true.

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theflamingskull@reddit

I still have my 2600. The good one, with the stuff grain. I'd buy, Asteroids, Star Raiders, and Yars Revenge. Defender is already in my library.

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Classic_Barnacle_844@reddit

This is how it should be. All generations of consoles should be represented at used game stores. Maybe they could survive if they were more like this.

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Skate_faced@reddit

Really a testament to an almost lost imagination. Like here's crap, that as kids we turned into like changing adventures. Yes the blue dot is you and no there's no arms. Green dot is an alien! Some were actually great, other better than most and most being "Dan, the wizard who escaped the dark dungeon of the Frost king Ghelamt \[blue dot\]......." I love collecting video games. I only have one Atari game though. M.A.S.H. as this generation is probably the most avoided one in game collecting. So many memories. Lotta big pixel. I still love the stuff. Thank Zorg for emulation.

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Rodzilla1976@reddit

No Pitfall Harry?!

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yeahwellokay@reddit

People probably bought all the good games.

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dammitknockitoff@reddit

Not only Pitfall…no activision games?!

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SittlersRippedC@reddit

Played Defender and so much Combat..

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DMFD_x_Gamer@reddit

Im curious, how much were the 2600 games going for, on average?

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wriker10@reddit (OP)

A few dollars. But they also were selling the full deck for a ridiculous $110!!

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Wild_Bag465@reddit

I’m not sure if TVs today even have the inputs for a 2600

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Weird-Girl-675@reddit

I have mine hooked up to a tube tv. This was in November when I was making sure it still worked. It does. And I still suck at Ms. PAC Man. https://preview.redd.it/g7j59gzqx7mf1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cd2f96c1c5f1dc02c8e0f6ba1561a5e683a4757

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wriker10@reddit (OP)

Very good point

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muznskwirl@reddit

There are mods you can do to output a signal that will work with more modern inputs. I’d recommend benheck.com but his site appears to not support https and the browser freaks out. There are two directories though, might be able to find info in those if it’s not available elsewhere.

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togocann49@reddit

An adapter is required. I have one, but got it years ago now. It’s basically a block that allows you to turn a few different connections to this block, that had audio/video wires (set of three, usually different colours) to connect to TV

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Ok_Replacement4702@reddit

Walk away. These beat up commons should be 50 cents each, max.

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70sLiteRock@reddit

how I wish I could play Combat or Berzerk one more time. maybe my local used store has some.

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Weird-Girl-675@reddit

As someone who still has a working Atari I would go crazy in there. I saw Frogger for sale at a store for 40 bucks. Way too much.

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MysticMaven@reddit

$60 each

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akerasi@reddit

One of my fave things about 2600 is that many of the very best games are super common. Warlords is amazing, they've got like 6 copies. Combat, Asteroids, Defender, Space Invaders, all great, all super common.

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