Atari 2600

[pfelelep]

Originally Posted by Trinity

When I came home from "a long hard day at putt-putt arcade". I got my special order defender cart in the mail while I was out.

Played all night.... Hmmmmm

Defender! ROOOOOOCKS!!!

[Trinity]

Originally Posted by pfelelep

Defender! ROOOOOOCKS!!!

Yeah it does! Ah, the memories... It's weird, I play these old games and it just brings back tons of old memories.

The Video Game Critic's Atari 2600 Reviews A-A

Definitely worth the $30 I payed for it on ebay.

Atari 2600, Games, Vintage Games items on eBay.com

[Trinity]

Note the manufacture date.

And the spider web in the small left cartridge door opener guide pin hole. Looks grey compared to the other side. It was a pain to get it out,,, dead spider and all.

It got a bit banged and broken on the way. A small piece of the bottom shell (Look at top right, the top support is just a bit busted off) got broke when it took a HARD drop to the left front side, Small scratch there also.

Whoever packed it was a stupid fu*k! One small layer of bubble wrap and then in a much bigger flimsy box with no wadding!!! WTF! He could have crumbled up a newspaper or something. Bouncing around and shit with the psu... I'm surprised it isn't more fu*ked up. Thank God Atari's are built tough! But I still had to take it apart to clean and lube the four switches (they were a little gummy feeling) and reseat the mobo as this got a bit dislodged in it's drop.

Works great! 8 out of 10 condition. Only $40 bucks.

Trin now have back-up Atari.

[The_YongGrand]

Originally Posted by Trinity

Note the manufacture date.

And the spider web in the small left cartridge door opener guide pin hole. Looks grey compared to the other side. It was a pain to get it out,,, dead spider and all.

It got a bit banged and broken on the way. A small piece of the bottom shell (Look at top right, the top support is just a bit busted off) got broke when it took a HARD drop to the left front side, Small scratch there also.

Whoever packed it was a stupid fu*k! One small layer of bubble wrap and then in a much bigger flimsy box with no wadding!!! WTF! He could have crumbled up a newspaper or something. Bouncing around and shit with the psu... I'm surprised it isn't more fu*ked up. Thank God Atari's are built tough! But I still had to take it apart to clean and lube the four switches (they were a little gummy feeling) and reseat the mobo as this got a bit dislodged in it's drop.

Works great! 8 out of 10 condition. Only $40 bucks.

Trin now have back-up Atari.

Wow oh wow, that's a great classic 'rig'!

I hope they have remakes on these old toys, and including those older monochrome Gameboys too!

I still want to have the reissued/new-old-stock Famicom set, but in Japan they are selling like $1000 for this one including an array of game catridges which contains the best rated games inside!

On top of that, I wonder what kind of processor does Atari 2600 and these Famicom sets have? Maybe people could have 'reconstructed' them!

[Adrian Wong]

Wow! And it still runs?? That's really something. They really built them to last.

[Trinity]

Originally Posted by The_YongGrand

Wow oh wow, that's a great classic 'rig'!

I hope they have remakes on these old toys, and including those older monochrome Gameboys too!

I still want to have the reissued/new-old-stock Famicom set, but in Japan they are selling like $1000 for this one including an array of game catridges which contains the best rated games inside!

On top of that, I wonder what kind of processor does Atari 2600 and these Famicom sets have? Maybe people could have 'reconstructed' them!

Try looking for one on ebay.

Processor??? MOS Technology 6507 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Trinity]

Originally Posted by The_YongGrand

Wow oh wow, that's a great classic 'rig'!

I hope they have remakes on these old toys, and including those older monochrome Gameboys too!

I still want to have the reissued/new-old-stock Famicom set, but in Japan they are selling like $1000 for this one including an array of game catridges which contains the best rated games inside!

On top of that, I wonder what kind of processor does Atari 2600 and these Famicom sets have? Maybe people could have 'reconstructed' them!

Try looking for one on ebay.

Processor??? MOS Technology 6507 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Trinity]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Wow! And it still runs?? That's really something. They really built them to last.

Yeah runs perfect! Not bad for being 28 years old come this November 5'th. It is older then some of our fellow fourmers!

I still would like to fix my original one when I get the time to poke around in it with a multi meter. I hope it's as easy to fix as replacing the 7805 voltage regulator, or the main filter capacitor. It sometimes powers up for a split second and dies. So, I think the logic section still works, just not getting power.

[The_YongGrand]

Originally Posted by Trinity

Try looking for one on ebay.

Processor??? MOS Technology 6507 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh I see. It's probably a derivative of the MOS 6502. Anyway, I'm gonna look into some homebrew computers - those video game consoles really give these hobbyists a good insight about them!

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Trinity

Yeah runs perfect! Not bad for being 28 years old come this November 5'th. It is older then some of our fellow fourmers!

I still would like to fix my original one when I get the time to poke around in it with a multi meter. I hope it's as easy to fix as replacing the 7805 voltage regulator, or the main filter capacitor. It sometimes powers up for a split second and dies. So, I think the logic section still works, just not getting power.

Just 2 months younger than me!