Atari 2600

[Mightymatt54]

The forum description says from the Xbox360 to the Atari 2600, and quite ironically i have a working Atari 2600 in my basement, does anyone else have one and/or want to share their opinion on the best game for it?

Being as old as it is the controllers are getting hard to use, but my old Atari is still great, and quite a few of its games are better than the ones i play on my 360.

If i had to pick id say my favorite game on it would be "Boxing", its easy and fun, plus you look like a little ant and can glitch the other player into a wall and KO them in about 30 seconds if your on the left. The ¼" pixels are always fun too

Edit: I did some research and i found that what i have is the 1977 Sunnyvale "Heavy Sixer", fun stuff

[Wolfio1]

You have a Heavy Sixer? Lucky!
I started playing the 2600 about a year ago. Since then, I've added two more to my collection. Two are six switch models: one I bought on Ebay and it works very well, the other I bought at a yardsale the year before, but it lacked the wires I needed, so it sat packed up for a year. It's picky about working. (Neither of them being a Sunnyvale, though), The other I bought at an antique shop. It's a basic four switch model and works with no trouble at all, so it's the one I have hooked up.

I could actually use game recommendations, as I have a decent pile but tend to play Dragonfire the most. It's easy to pick up and put down.

[phantomrainbow]

i always liked pitfall and centipede..
i used to like space invaders and the tank game..
my sister still has one that works...

[Mightymatt54]

My controllers are all as old as the ones that came with it back in '77 so a couple dont work, and the three that do are rather difficult to make work, i think its the contacts inside them, and tips as to how and if i can refurbish them?

[Smith6612]

My cousins still have a functioning Atari 2600. There are a few games they have like Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros, and a few others which I can't remember. Their controllers are still easy to use suprisingly, and they had most recently lost the video cable, but it had turned up.

[Wolfio1]

I could have sworn I posted here before. o_O

Anyway, official Atari controllers are pretty easy to fix. Spraying WD-40 into it is a quick fix without taking the controller apart, but doesn't do much good in the long run. Just unscrew the bottom and clean the whole thing out. They should work after that, and if you mess up you have more than one controller to spare.

3rd party controllers are a different story, though. I can't get many of them to work.

[VPmase]

I love playing Freeway on my Atari xD Pitfall was fun too.

[NESDungeon]

I hope to find one as soon as the flea markets open up again around here

[CoolFinalFan]

GameTap has that platform on their games!!

[Sohail]

I don't see the point in using those old consoles when we have things like HD graphics, surround sound and all that ;)

I have copied the full specs of the PS3 (the best console ) just so you get gat a taste of the kind of technology we have today :-

Product name: PLAYSTATION 3

CPU: Cell Processor

* PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
* 1 VMX vector unit per core
* 512KB L2 cache
* 7 x SPE @3.2GHz
* 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
* 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* * 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU: RSX @550MHz

* 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
* Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
* Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)

Memory:

* 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
* 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth:

* Main RAM: 25.6GB/s
* VRAM: 22.4GB/s
* RSX: 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
* SB: 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance: 2 TFLOPS

Storage:

* HDD
* Detachable 2.5” HDD slot x 1

I/O:

* USB: Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
* Memory Stick: standard/Duo, PRO x 1
* SD: standard/mini x 1
* CompactFlash: (Type I, II) x 1

Communication: Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x3 (input x 1 + output x 2)

Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller:

* Bluetooth (up to 7)
* USB2.0 (wired)
* Wi-Fi (PSP®)
* Network (over IP)

AV Output:

* Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
* HDMI: HDMI out x 2
* Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
* Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

CD Disc media (read only):

* PlayStation CD-ROM
* PlayStation 2 CD-ROM
* CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW
* SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD
* DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)

DVD Disc media (read only):

* PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM
* PLAYSTATION 3 DVD-ROM
* DVD-Video: DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW

Blu-ray Disc media (read only):

* PLAYSTATION 3 BD-ROM
* BD-Video: BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

Pretty good eh :P...