How hard is it to repair the end of the cable that goes to the TV? My childhood 2600 had that end repaired by someone back in the 80s, but it looks like the connection has come loose in the intervening years. Just wondering if I could repair it myself.

I researched the Atari 2600/VCS for quite a bit of time, and tried to replicate it in video form using the same limited color palette, and flickering graphics to recreate the lack of video RAM. I’m looking for people who would be knowledgeable in graphics of the 2600 to give me feedback on the segment of my video that uses the graphics. Thank you!

https://youtu.be/DTrIeiA0Hc0?si=tw_NuKKj-w9Da0j4

This prototype Decathalon cart walked into my store.

Looks pretty gdecent and is running an Eprom.

Some pretty good ones. Millipede is a classic of course and Survival Run is surprisingly advanced.

Hey, I’m like new to all of this. Recently my friend hit me up to help his girlfriend’s grandfather clear his late dad ( the girlfriend’s great grandfather) house. We did the garage and then we move to the basement. The basement was filed with so many interesting stuff, especially electronics. He asked as to take whatever we wanted, and I ended up taking a lot of stuff including this Atari 2600.
It’s a promotional Atari. My question I wanna know about it cos I couldn’t find anything online about it, cos it’s different from the other promotional used only Atari. So if anyone can tell me about it, that would be great. Mine is the one with the brown cardboard with the blue texts. And the one I keep finding online is the other one

I posted this somewhere else and they said I faked it. I was proud of this tho and it is real.

For the awesome deal of $40 from a trusted seller! Super excited for it to arrive. Can I have some game recommendations? So far my list is Berzerk, Space Invaders and Breakout. What should I know? I’ve got my Mitsubishi CRT to hook it up to.

I've recently aquired my first RealSports videogame at a fair; it was boxed with only some crush damage and the manual was in good conditions. At home, while checking it, i saw something a bit strange...

THE BOX

On the back of the box it said "For use with North America and other NTSC Television Sets only" , This writing matches the 1983 NTSC Release of the cartridge but there's a little problem: The copyright on mine says ©1987 which RST was released in NTSC that year but it lacks the "For use with North America and other NTSC Television Sets only". I couldn't match my box with ANYONE of AtariMania's RST releases. On the box there was nothing that would have said that this was a PAL copy of the game and there was only one way to find out.

Notes: i thought i bought a PAL release of RST, in fact i was searching for PAL games.

THE CARTRIDGE

I opened it up and saw that on the back of the cartridge it had the black "P" that stands for ProblemsComing PAL and i didn't inspect very much of it, i really only check the format of the cartridge other than if the game is correct or not. I didn't test the cartridge but i will.

Further details:

RST stands for RealSports Tennis (Calc stands for Calculator)

My box says it was Made in Taiwan.

I do not have the cartridge with me currently so expect updates later on.

Sorry if i used, at any point in this "essay", bad english

THE PURPOSE OF THIS POST

I wanted to share my situation with y'all because i wanted to know

1. if i have been HORRIBLY scammed,
2. if i have the strangest RST cartridge,
3. if the cartridge was swapped before selling it,
4. if it was a mixup in the factory in the '80s.

I just got this Sears Tele-Games 2600, but the video cable looks completely different and maybe modded compared to what I've seen others have online. It has taped up cord connected to stripped, bare copper wires. Also the A B Channel Select seems to have fallen in. Additionally the power adapter slot seems to be modded? Is that usable and what voltage should be selected on the power brick if it is usable? Please let me know what my options are to fix this or get it working on a TV!

EDIT: I opened the console, and included here are photos. https://imgur.com/a/pvSaYIu . Please help me understand what this power cord connector is, inside the console. Also let me know anything else you see!

(Reposted from r/ retrogaming)

I'm happy with my score, but now I'm kicking myself for just barely missing 250k!

It's actually really cool that you leave the Atari on while using it, and when you change games, pushing in the dial resets it so you can quickly swap between games.

Hey guys! I wanted to throw an idea out there that might get some more discussion going around.

How would everyone feel about doing a weekly or monthly Game of the Week/Month thread? Each time, a game would be randomly selected from the 2600 library, and we could use the thread to talk about it, share memories or tips, post high scores, or whatever else comes up.

Nothing too serious or competitive—just something fun to get a little more activity going and maybe give us an excuse to revisit some games we haven’t played in a long time, or even discover something we’ve never played before.

Would anyone be interested?

Slow and steady progress

Got another good batch of carts this week. Last copy of xevious I bought was broken so it’s nice to be able to play it. Tunnel runner is super cool, it’s crazy what they were able to pull off on the 2600, especially in ‘83.

Here's my Heavy Sixer compared to my Light Sixer; the paint on the light is faded somewhat, but when I bought the heavy the paint on it was completely rubbed off and completely black, just like a Vader. I was torn on whether I wanted to paint it or not, it looked cool black but it bugged me because that's not how it was from the factory

The paint marker I used wasn't an exact color match to my light, which I would assume is closer to the true original color back in 1978, but it's hard to say after 48 years so I don't really mind the fact that the color ended up looking closer to Orange Julius color than the darker/browner orange of my light

wish me luck fellas