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| | Atari 2600 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Atari 2600, released in 1977, is the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or more games built in. | | | Atari suffered from an image problem when a company named Mystique produced a number of pornographic games for the 2600. | | | The Atari 2600 was officially retired by Atari Corporation on January 1, 1992. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600
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| | Adventure (Atari 2600) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Adventure for the Atari 2600 is considered the first action-adventure game. | | | This article is about a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console. | | | Despite discouragement from his boss at Atari who said it could not be done, game designer, Warren Robinett, created a graphic game loosely based on the text game. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(Atari_2600)
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| | Atari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Atari develops, publishes and distributes games for all major video game consoles, as well as for the personal computer, and is currently one of the largest third-party publishers of video games in the United States. | | | The Atari 5200 game console, released as a next-generation follow up to the 2600, was based on the Atari 800 computer (but was incompatible with Atari 800 game cartridges), and its sales never met the company's expectations. | | | In the meantime, Atari Games was bought out by its employees in 1986, who also founded Tengen to bring their arcade games in to the home. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari
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| | The Atari 2600 Video Computer System |
| | The Atari 2600 version of Pac Man was written by Todd Fry who, although he was talented Atari 2600 programmer did not like Pac Man and did a sloppy half-effort of porting the game to the Atari 2600. | | | Atari had originally planned to sell a total of 10 games for the Atari 2600. | | | Another interesting feature about the Atari 2600 were its games. |
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/atari2600.html
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| | O'Reilly Network -- Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene |
| | At present, he is making another Atari 2600 homebrew game, based on Aztec Challenge, a 1983 game originally for the Commodore 64 home computer. | | | The Atari 2600 homebrew community is the largest among groups who develop original games for classic video game consoles. | | | "Have you played Atari today?" was an ad jingle for the Atari 2600 VCS game console during its reign in the early years of the video game industry, from the late 1970s to early 1980s. |
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http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/print/a/4849
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| | ClassicGaming.com - The Museum: Atari 2600 |
| | Atari wasn't very happy about having to deal with this new competition (as Atari was the sole producer of VCS games prior to Activision's formation), and at the time they didn't realize that this was the beginning of the end of their software dominance. | | | The Atari 5200 Supersystem was named for its part number in the Atari catalog, CX5200. | | | The failure of the 5200 was partly due to its inability to play 2600 games, as well as its shoddy controllers. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/2600
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| | List of Atari 2600 games: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Quadrun is a computer game for the atari 2600.... | | | The atari 2600, released in 1977, was the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or more games built in.... | | | Name this game, also known as octopus in europe, is a video game for the atari 2600 manufactured by us games.... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_atari_2600_games.htm
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| | Adventure for the Atari 2600 |
| | Atari game carts go for a few dollars each, and for $20, you can get an Atari 2600 console and a dozen game carts. | | | Adventure, a video game cartridge for the Atari 2600 video game console, was the first action-adventure video game. | | | Adventure introduced the idea of movable objects (represented by visible icons) that could be picked up by the player (using a joystick) and moved from place to place in the game world. |
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http://www.warrenrobinett.com/adventure
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| | AtariAge - Atari 2600 Rarity Guide Search |
| | First many people have a nostalgia for the 2600 and pick one up to play all the games they remember from their past. | | | The Atari 2600 is the system most people collect games for. | | | At the time of the big game crash of 1984, the Atari 2600 market was saturated with games, many of which had low production runs and a short-lived shelf life. |
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http://www.atariage.com/software_search.html?SystemID=2600
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| | ATARI 2600 |
| | Atari 5200, but it never really caught on and it won't play your 2600 games unless you buy a special adaptor, and finding one of those can be pretty difficult too. | | | The two controllers Atari gave you only had one button so the games are really simple to play but this created a problem for some games like Mouse Trap where a extra button would have helped with the game play (opening doors and the switching into Dog mode gets very confusing). | | | The Atari 2600 also has a lot of options on the system itself to alter your games like Type A or B switches, game select, and even an option for Black and White or Colour. |
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http://ryangenno.tripod.com/sub_pages/atari.htm
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| | Paul's Atari 2600 |
| | What is the Atari 2600 game that is known as the first video game to contain an "Easter Egg"? | | | I hope this web page brings back memories for the original players of the Atari 2600, and introduces the classic console to a new generation of video game players. | | | This is a recent list of Atari 2600 games I play often! |
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http://members.aol.com/pls422/atari2600
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| | AtariAge - 2600 Consoles and Clones |
| | The Atari 2600 had quite a long lifespan, and in that time Atari issued several versions of the console. | | | This is their version of the Atari VCS CX2600. | | | Atari briefly attempted to market the 2600 in Japan, under the name Atari 2800. |
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http://www.atariage.com/2600/archives/consoles.html
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| | Seanbaby.com - Atari 2600 Porn and a Brief History of Video Games |
| | The Atari 2600 wasn't just built for games. | | | After this, the first player would close their eyes and be reminded by the Atari not to peek. | | | It is exactly the same as another shitty 2600 game called "Saboteur." Evidentally, the programming geniuses thought that changing their little space man into a Mr. |
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http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/atari2600.htm
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| | Atari 2600 VCS Legacy |
| | Atari was the undisputed leader of the video game market largely due to the success of the Atari 2600 VCS. | | | The 2600 VCS provided a multiple-gaming platform that the gamer could just go out and purchase a new cartridge when they grew tied of the existing game -- unlike most system that predate the VCS that were dedicated to a specific game and could not be changed. | | | Even Atari recognized the popularity of its 2600 VCS and produced a device to allow users to play the 2600 VCS games on their newly released 5200 Super System. |
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http://home.olemiss.edu/~badwf/atari2600.html
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| | The Atari 2600 VCS Portables Site - The Atari 2600 VCSp (Rev 1) |
| | The Atari 2600 could only display a background, 2 players and a ball at the same time. | | | There had been videogame systems before the Atari 2600, but the 2600 was the system that appealed to the most people and had the best selection of games. | | | Space Invaders was such a huge hit when it came out for the Atari in 1980 that people bought systems just to play the game. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/vcsp/VCSpStory1.htm
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| | The Atari Times - 2600 |
| | Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari Atari atari | | | Developed by Atari and led by Nolan Bushnell, the Atari 2600 was released in 1977 after Atari merged with Warner Communications. | | | he popularity of the Atari 2600 VCS is what really began the video game movement. |
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http://www.ataritimes.com/2600
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| | Salon.com Technology Atari lives! |
| | The Atari 2600 certainly used to be the hippest console on the block. | | | During the so-called golden age of console gaming, from 1977, the year when the 2600 first appeared, to 1983-84, when the gaming market crashed thanks to a glut of lousy games and bad marketing decisions, Atari was preeminent. | | | Isn't the Atari 2600 the archaic console that only plays those games with the rinky-dink graphics and sound and simplistic play, like Combat and that godawful version of Pac-Man? The one with the goofy pseudo wood-grain trim on its casing that started the whole video game console market 24 years ago? |
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http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/09/atari
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| | Nick Bensema's Atari Programming Page |
| | The Atari 2600 is one of the simplest video game systems ever invented, yet it is one of the most complicated for which to program. | | | For this reason, very few new Atari 2600 games have come out despite the availability of the Supercharger and all of the development tools designed to work with it. | | | Disassembled Games: See some of your favorite Atari games as you've never seen them before. |
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http://www.io.com/~nickb/atari
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| | 2600 Shadows - an Atari 2600 site |
| | ~ KISS Destroyer for the Atari 2600 ~ | | | As far as I know, no one ever made a KISS game for the Atari 2600 :-) To read about my idea for the game that Atari should have made: | | | List of All Games Made for 2600 |
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http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/atari2600
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| | Atari 2600 Redux - MetaFilter |
| | June 7, 2003 10:39 AM The Atari 2600 redux This time Jakks TV Games has put 10 old Atari games into the old Atari joystick form factor fo $20US. | | | People seemed to go for the Yar's Revenge and the Asteroids first, but all the games got played at some time or another. | | | Here's the Atari 10-in-1 game thread from a few months back. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/26258
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| | Explore Hidden Levels in Atari 2600 video game, Mountain King |
| | Sorry, this is not an instruction manual for the game and won't show how the game should be played. | | | In the left port of the Atari, unplug your joystick and replace it with a set of two Paddles. | | | Some paddles may not work as well as others, And won't work at all if this Mountain king game which is made for Atari 2600, is played in on Atari 7800! |
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http://www.angelfire.com/mt/mountkingatari2600
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| | USATODAY.com - Gaming's bygone era relived with Atari gadget |
| | The Atari brand has traded hands in the years since Pong hit the scene, but the new owners are still milking some mileage out of this game and 39 others with Atari Flashback 2. | | | Atari has done a nice job of legally giving us another look at these early games, long after the consoles themselves have been relegated to the dust bin. | | | Some are licensed from Activision Inc., which made games for the 2600, but most are original Atari gems. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/games/2005-09-22-atari-flashback_x.htm
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| | 3D Realms Site: Duke Nukem Forever for the Atari 2600 |
| | Atariage.com - One of the best resources for Atari 2600 games. | | | Atariprotos.com - A great source for Atari prototype games. | | | In addition, we spent a lot of time simplifying the game interface so it works with just the Atari 2600 joystick and a single fire button. |
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http://www.3drealms.com/duke4/dnf2600.html
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| | I Beat Solaris on the Atari 2600 |
| | Most atari players aren't expecting such a complicated game and so give Solaris poor reviews after minutes of play, but those who give it a chance rank it as one of the best games ever. | | | The sequence is the only way I know how to win, but it is kind of disturbing for an atari game... | | | This web page is devoted to beating Solaris (in my opinion the best video game ever programmed for the Atari 2600 VCS) with and without cheating. |
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http://members.tripod.com/skintigh/atari/solaris.html
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| | Videogame-Wiz - Atari 2600 MaxiCart |
| | The MaxiCart is a great tool if you just want to play Atari 2600 games or you can use it to develop and test your homebrew games. | | | The A26 MaxiCart is a special Atari 2600 cartridge that allows loading games into it using a PC. | | | The game is stored in the MaxiCart until it is overwritten with another game using the loader program. |
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http://www.vgwiz.com/a26maxicart.html
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| | A Brief History of Home Video Games |
| | Because of a deal between Atari and Sears, Atari had an infrastructure sufficient to flood the new gaming market with their products. | | | The success of Atari in the late seventies would pave the way for Atari's domination of the home market during the Second Generation. | | | The only barrier in Atari's path was money. |
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http://www.geekcomix.com/vgh/second/at2600.shtml
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| | The Cuttle Cart for the Atari 2600 |
| | There are LOTS of Atari 2600 games, and I have not tested them all. | | | When you want to switch games, simply turn off the Atari 2600, and turn it back on and it will be ready to load a new game. | | | Just plug it into your Atari 2600, and connect the Cuttle Cart's audio cable to a source of games in audio format, such as a CD player or your computer's soundcard. |
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http://www.schells.com/cuttlecart.shtml
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| | Combat by Atari for the Atari 2600. |
| | This was the first game created for the Atari 2600, and a text-label version was included with the purchase of each new system, making this the most common 2600 game out there. | | | All of the games are 2-player and involve one person shooting the other, whether it be in tanks, jets, or biplanes. | | | Later Atari systems were not sold with the text-label Combat cartridge, so the picture-label game could be purchased separately. |
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http://www.atariguide.com/0/090.htm
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| | Atari (2600) Game Development Still Going Strong |
| | According to Chris Larkin, developer of the Atari 2600 card game Kablamo! | | | Thirty years after Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, the game system that he helped develop is still drawing raves -- and yes, even new games. | | | Mixing thirty- and forty-something game designers with an antique console has seemed to produce two sets of results: some have chosen to try and adapt their favorite tabletop or card games for the 2600. |
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,857607,00.asp
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| | AtariAge - Have You Played Atari Today? |
| | Fans of the popular four-player Atari 2600 game Warlords (itself based on an arcade game of the same name) will be happy to learn that 2600 enthusiast Darrell Spice Jr. | | | Rainbow Invaders is a new Space Invaders style game for the Atari 2600 from Italian developer Silvio Mogno. | | | While the original version from Atari is still a blast to play, Medieval Madness adds arcade features and a level of polish missing from the original 2600 release, as well as a menu to select options before starting the game. |
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http://www.atariage.com
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| | neoretro - computers - art - cool |
| | I bought an Atari 2600 (yes, it was dead - in fact, I got a stack of them - some working, some dead) and gutted it. | | | Commercial Atari 2600 Emulator with over 40 licensed games included. | | | The inside of the Atari 2600 case with the SlimDVD drive already in place. |
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http://www.retrosystem.com/atari.shtml
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| | Atari 2600/7800 FAQ moved |
| | It has also been split into two FAQs, one for the 2600 and one for the 7800. | | | Seeing it now, you might think that the Atari Age people wrote it from scratch. | | | Click on either link or wait a few seconds to go to the 2600 FAQ. |
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http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dzubera/2600faq.html
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| | Dan B's Atari 2600 Tech Page |
| | [Atari 2600] [Atari 5200] [Atari 7800] [Odyssey 2] [Colecovision] [6502] | | | If you want to play the games at a normal speed on a lower end system, this is the emulator to go with. | | | You can use these programs to put your own graphics into 2600 games. |
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http://atarihq.com/danb/a2600.shtml
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| | Phosphor Dot Fossils Atari 2600 |
| | Ironically, while some people later blamed Atari - and specifically CEO Ray Kassar - for keeping the 2600 on the market too long (its last new mass-production game was released in 1990), the machine almost died an early death under Atari's founder, Nolan Bushnell. | | | Chances are, if you were like most people and had a home video game in the late 70s or early 80s, it was an Atari 2600 (also repackaged by Sears as the "Sears Tele-Games" console). | | | He wanted to move on and start developing the next generation of game hardware, but Kassar, representing Atari's new corporate parent company Warner Communications, had other ideas. |
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http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/atari26
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| | AtariGuide - Atari 2600 VCS and Classic Game Collectors Resource |
| | Free.bin (ROM) files on most game pages so you can play Atari 2600 games right now. | | | A full page dedicated to each game includes instructions which you can print out and a.bin file so you can play the game on your Personal Computer. | | | When you're ready to stop playing games, and start playing games, we've got thousands of different Atari games for you at AtariGuide.com! |
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http://www.atari2600nexus.com
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| | Stick It In The Slot: A VGG Salute to the Atari 2600 |
| | And many of our most traumatic memories revolve around Mom turning off our 2600 in the middle of a game. | | | Sure, there have been more advanced home gaming consoles since, but the 2600 wasn't just a console. | | | The Best Atari 2600 Games You Never Heard Of: |
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http://www.vgg.com/2600
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Solaris (Atari 2600) |
| | Solaris was a game for the Atari 2600 (also supported by Atari 7800), published in 1988 by Atari. | | | The game was more complicated than most contemporary games, pushing the limited 2600 hardware to the limit. | | | The galaxy is made up by 16 quadrants, each containing 16 sectors. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/S/SO/SOL/Solaris_(Atari_2600)
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| | Xbox 360 Has Nothing On Atari 2600 - Forbes.com |
| | The best gaming platform of all time is undoubtedly the Atari (nasdaq: ATAR - news - people) 2600. | | | What other system will have the permanence of Atari 2600 games, which are available on every modern platform in the form of anthologies and as mobile games? | | | Xbox 360 Has Nothing On Atari 2600 - Forbes.com |
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/11/23/microsoft-xbox-videogames-cx_el_1123oldgames.html?partner=rss
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| | From putting up "in development" pages, to running message board forums, to working with authors to get their games into hardware and working on real-live Ataris, to a great storefront, the site is a huge resource and I consider it THE online resource for Atari...heck, for almost all of classic gaming. | | | I kept a development journal that you might wish to skim through if you want to know the trials, tribulation, and triumph of making a real 2600 game. | | | So you want to be an Atari Programmer, make that 2600 sing, dance, do tricks for you? |
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http://www.alienbill.com/2600/101
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| | Welcome to JAKKS TV Games >> Atari |
| | © 2004 ATARI, the Atari logo, PONG, BREAKOUT, REAL SPORTS VOLLEYBALL, CENTIPEDE, YAR’S REVENGE, MISSILE COMMAND, CIRCUS ATARI, GRAVITAR, ADVENTURE, and ASTEROIDS are the trademarks or registered trademarks of ATARI. |
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http://www.jakkstvgames.com/atari.html
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| | The Human Clock™ - Atari 2600 Webserver |
| | Someone pointed out that the Atari 2600 only has only.000125 MB of RAM. | | | During the early AM hours when humanclock.com isn't so busy, the Atari is taken offline and the security guards team up against the web guys on Maze Craze. | | | Note: "Hunt and Score " is an educational game, not some sort of dating game. |
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http://www.humanclock.com/atariserver.php
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| | MyMac.com: publishing since 1995 |
| | The first was easy, Tim already had two Atari 2600’s, and they used one of those. | | | Turning a vintage 1970’s Atari 2600 game consol into a Macintosh computer, running the latest and greatest Mac OS X. The catch? | | | Try and keep the Atari looking stock, up to a point. |
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http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=1928
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| | VGMusic.com - Atari 2600 Music |
| | This is a complete listing of all the files in the Atari 2600 directory, as of May 22, 2006 at 10:31 PM EDT. | | | There are 54 midi files in the Atari 2600 directory. | | | Page last updated May 22, 2006 at 10:31 PM EDT. |
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http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/atari/2600
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| | IGN Boards - Post here if own the Atari 2600 version |
| | After "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Adventure" (and that wierd zodiac game that had the comic book tie-in...i forget the name) it was one of the most surreal experiences you can have on the 2600. | | | Topic: Post here if own the Atari 2600 version | | | [http://games.ign.com/] IGN Boards » All Game Boards (Free) » E.T. » Post here if own the Atari 2600 version Join Insider |
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http://boards.ign.com/E_T_/b5681/54312840/?9
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| | The original release is set for the christmas season on MMC card - bundled with a number of selected Atari 2600 game images. | | | MobileWizardry and Mobile Digital Media (MDM) announce the release of an official Atari 2600 emulator, named "Atari Retro" sporting games originally published by Atari, using the SHARK development kit - allowing a release on multiple platforms simultaneously using the same MMC card - for retail and online distribution. | | | It contains a complete Atari 2600 emulation engine using original cartridge ROM images to give that classic original in front of the television while with game console quality. |
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http://www.mobilewizardry.com/press/20031011-atari.php
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| | Atari 2600 Adventures |
| | 2600 Adventures is a small collection of Atari 2600 VCS information, nostalgia and resources. | | | Special thanks go to Atari.org for their support. | | | It has also been given a minor overhaul and a few things have been added. |
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| | ATARI.ORG / Home / The Definitive Atari Resource on the Internet |
| | Atari.Org is a non-commercial service dedicated to the Atari home- and personal-computer users as well as the Classic Video Game enthusiasts all over the world. | | | ATARI.ORG / Home / The Definitive Atari Resource on the Internet | | | I'd like to invite you all again to this year's ATARI party called PLATARIADA, taking place in Ceske Budejovice (Budweis) in the south of Czech Republic on the 23.6. |
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| | Atari |
| | Rare: CCE VG-2800 - ATARI 2600 - aus Brasilien (B. Rare: CCE VG-2800 - ATARI 2600 - aus Brasilien (B. Atari 2600 Konsole 1 Joystick und 18 Spiele | | | Startseite » PC- & Videospiele » Konsolen » Atari | | | Atari 2600 Konsole 2 Gamepads Netzteil 34 Spiele |
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http://www.lifestyle.net.pl/LE8091P0-Atari.html
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| | History of the Atari VCS 2600 games console |
| | History of the Atari VCS 2600 games console | | | The Atari Video Computer System CX2600 was the most successful classic video game console. | | | You had to play with a friend, family member, anyone you could drag in off the street. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/5874/atari.htm
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