My BIL has given me an 2600. There’s no PSU so I’ve ordered a 9V 2amp one from Amazon. Before I switch it on are there any things I need to know or do first? Do the capacitors go bad and need replacing? Are there any known issues with the console or cartridges?
Any help is most welcome.
I have a ton of video game stuff. I counted 250+ games, mostly 2600's 1 Darth Vader, 5 wood grain, 1 Sears video arcade, but also 2 5200's, and there must be 15 controllers ranging from paddles, to track and field, and a few other brands and styles.
I remember playing Combat at my cousins house when we visited. Pitfall and Chopper Command too. I really like the art work and have manuals to go with a lot of these games as well.
Just curious if they will make more games for the 2600 and 7800 plus. Seems like its been a while since they anounced anything.
A lot of people still see Atari as a failed brand from a bygone era, and to be honest from 2013 (bankruptcy) up until 2021 you wouldn't be wrong in making this assertion.
However since then the company has successfully managed to rebuilt itself from the ashes, thanks in large part due to the leadership of current CEO Wade Rosen .
Here's a brief overview of everything that has occurred since Wade began his tenure at Atari ( in chronological order ) :
2021
- Wade became CEO and immediately moved the company away from all of it's previous projects not related to gaming (Atari Token crypto currency, Atari hotels, online casinos etc). Atari vowed to return to making premium games on PC and consoles aka go back to making real video games instead of free to play slop on mobile.
- Atari released the Atari VCS console and created the Atari Recharged line of games
- Invested 500k $ in Antstream ( Retro game subscription service )
2022
- Atari purchased Moby games ( the IMDb of video games ) for 1.5 million dollars.
- Released the incredible Atari 50 collection
2023
- Atari purchased Night Dive studios for 20 million $
- Acquired Atari Age for an undisclosed amount
- Acquired over a 100 PC and console games from the 80s and 90s, including Bubsy and Hardball
- Purchased Digital Eclipse for 30 million $
- Invested in Polymega ( 49% stake in the company )
- Created the Atari + line of consoles in partnership with Plaion, and released the 2600+ in the same year
2024
- Bought the rights to Transport Tycoon
- Bought the rights to Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 from Frontier Developments
- Acquired the Intellivision brand and all it's IPs
- Released the Atari 400 mini
- Released the 7800+
2025
- Acquired Thunderful ( the owners of Steam World, Viewfinder, Replaced etc )
- Acquired 5 IPs from Ubisoft ( including Cold Fear and Child of Eden )
- Released the Atari Gamestation GO
- Released the Intellivision Sprint
2026 ( so far )
- Acquired Implicit Conversions (emulation studio known for bringing PS1 and PS2 titles to the PS Plus classics collection)
- Acquired the rights to the first 5 Wizardry games and the universe they take place in "The Llylgamyn Saga"
So yeah a lot has happened to Atari during these last 5 years , they went from one of the biggest laughing stocks in the industry to the most dominant player in the retro gaming market, and a respectable AA publisher. Overall current Atari is the best version of the company since the early 2000s, and hopefully things will only get better from here on out.
Intro is in Spanish but main talk by David is in English. Enjoy!
Event hosted and organized by Espacio TEC, biggest retro computing museum in Latin America.
Me: Centipede (1981), Crystal Castles (1983), Super Sprint (1986), Tetris (1989), Pit-Fighter (1990)
And I really like the Atari 2600 Reactor, and I wish the arcade version was made by Atari so it could have been included in this list...
I work as volunteer for the local retrocomputer museum Espacio TEC, biggest on LATAM. Inspired by the guys who did the C64 Meshtastic cart, we decided to make something to link old computers and Meshtastic to show on the static display at the museum. For this we came out with a V2 + RS232 adapter, and my colleague used his cross-platform compiler project MACUMBAEDITOR to make clients for Amiga, Atari, DOS, Mac, and more incoming.
You can check his work and download the clients at https://macumbaeditor.com/examples/mesh.html
After installing the Community Custom Firmware onto my GSG, My microSD card has a subfolder called Atari 2600 paddle games (or similar). I put a few paddle games (with .a26 file extension) into that subfolder, but the GSG's paddle is non-functional in them. (FWIW, the paddle is not functional from the "Atari 2600" subfolder either).
Does anyone know how to get the paddle working in the appropriate games (ie - Breakout, Kaboom, Warlords, etc) off of the microSD card? (Under "Local Storage", the paddle DOES work in the appropriate games so it's not a hardware problem.)
Thanks!
Traded a Commodore monitor for an Atari Portable.
It released in 1983 in March and was Discontinued in June of the same year. It was $900 when new.
I have a collection of Colecovision Game Roms (.col file extension) that I would like to run on my Gamestation Go. I've tried two ways to do this:
Neither method has worked for me. Although my PC "sees" the files on the SD card, the Gamestation Go does not. - Very Frustrating.
Note that method #2 above works fine for my Atari 2600/5200/7800 roms, so I don't know what's wrong in the case of these Colecovision games.
I'm running the official GSG 1.1 firmware, if that matters.
So, can someone who has gotten their Colecovision titles to successffully run on their GSG help in getting this to work for me as well?
Thanks!
I know Atari has bought a bunch of studios recently, and it feels like all their games are produced by those second party studios or separate third party studios. Do they have an internal, first party development team to produce games or even just assist with development?