Happy Birthday Atari

[River_Rat_459]

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/happy-40th-birthday-atari-184349799.html

Wow...time flies. I remember when this was the "it" system.

http://www.thegameconsole.com/atari-2600/atari-2600.jpg

[KaNtSt0PMeH]

Lol tell us more stories of the olden days Corey! Haha...

[Bull3tBait]

I remember it was the first console we had in my family. We were stationed in Landstuhl at the time and my dad came stateside TDY and bought one at sears and brought it home to us. Was the best thing ever considering at that time we only had AFN (1 TV channel and 1 Radio station). We kids played outside all day but in the winter you were the cool kid if you had an Atari. I also remember getting up in the middle of the night and my parents would be huddled up in front of the TV playing Space Invaders. They were playing against each other and taunting each other. It was pretty funny.


You give me the gun.....I'll give you the cornbread

[Port66]

I had the Atari with the keyboard built into the console and tape player programming. It still had the cartridges for games. I want to say it was the 4400

[Port66]

My bad the 4800

http://img.tapatalk.com/b8a63433-d8d6-5fc6.jpg

[KaNtSt0PMeH]

I remember it was the first console we had in my family. We were stationed in Landstuhl at the time and my dad came stateside TDY and bought one at sears and brought it home to us. Was the best thing ever considering at that time we only had AFN (1 TV channel and 1 Radio station). We kids played outside all day but in the winter you were the cool kid if you had an Atari. I also remember getting up in the middle of the night and my parents would be huddled up in front of the TV playing Space Invaders. They were playing against each other and taunting each other. It was pretty funny.


You give me the gun.....I'll give you the cornbread

Stories like that make me remember why I love gaming :)


My bad the 4800

http://img.tapatalk.com/b8a63433-d8d6-5fc6.jpg

Bringing it back Teddi! Haha I had one of those as well... well my brothers did I destroyed it baseball bat because my dad said it was piece of shit and to have a ball lol.

[CrzyChinook]

wow i remember when this was cutting edge!!

[Specops03SS]

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/happy-40th-birthday-atari-184349799.html

Wow...time flies. I remember when this was the "it" system.

http://www.thegameconsole.com/atari-2600/atari-2600.jpg



What do you mean when...it still is. One of these in good condition is worth more than any gamesystem any of us own. Try and find one that is in good shape with games...they are hard to come by. God I miss Atari...

[CrzyChinook]

i still remeber the day we got our off of LayAway at Kmart!! i must have been around 12 .. 2600 was our second console.. my dad was a electronic nut.. we had the pong sys first!!

[A1000YrdStare03]

Yeah, I loved atari too!! A guy I work with just bought one for his dad for fathers day. He got it on ebay. Needless to say, they got no sleep the night he gave it to him.:couch2:

[Rickety Rob]

I know i'm late but happy B-lated

[iamthesgt]

Wow. How far systems have come. And yet, these are still just as or more addicting as the stuff we have now.