Never understood the retro gaming thing. I play them and it brings back nice memories, but it all seems so quaint now (for lack of a better word).

Never understood Minecraft, either. Why do kids play blocky-looking games like I had to as a kid when they have all this great tech now? (And yes...I understand the game might just be fun to play!)

Give me 4k gaming with Dolby Atmos and I'm happy as a pig in shit.

I just got a RTX3060ti and my daughter says Minecraft is way better with ray tracing

I don’t understand collecting retro games. I collect retro consoles and then mod them or use an everdrive to get the entire library of games for each system.

I have the originals in a bin, one of these days get around to setting up a wall unit for play.

No$talgia is always popular!

Hmm. Very odd that people who collect 40 year old arcade machines “don’t understand” collecting 40 year old video games.

So, I know other 3rd party people have been making 2600 games for years. I like the fact that “ATARI” is Re-running these games as “limited Edition”. Though, I think the game looks to be the exact same game that was mass produced in 1981. Asteroids, Yars Revenge, haunted house. All games that were great. But, I can buy these original games for probably under $10 on EBay. Ok, you get a new box and a special designed cartridge. But, I think the game is the exact same game, and it’s $100.
I can’t see a remake of these same games being worth more in the future than the original mass produced cartridge.
If they had some new games, or, changed things up a bit I can see something.

Thanks for the link. I will watch this and see where it goes

That is weird and ironic!

I still have my Vectrex! Some of the home brew games are the best Ive ever played on a home system.

Anyone ever beat ET?

Just need to dig it up first.

Pinball is a physical medium. I was talking about the graphics and sound having developed over the past 40 years. But yeah...I still prefer the new pinball games to the old ones as well, so at least I'm consistent.

It's fun to have originals, but agree that to experience the game as I remember it, I only "need" original hardware and a CRT. Multicarts give that and are a lot more convenient so most of my games remain in totes. Still enjoy having a collection of carts though. I bought most of mine 20 years ago when people were just wanting to get rid of their old junk.

I get the nes and snes remakes. But atari games were soooooo boring in retrospect.

Bing. Bong. Boop. Bing. Bong....

Although the asteroids sounds were quite ominous.

Ah, the Atari 2600, the video game equivalent of an EM - very old and very boring.

It’s true. NES is the earliest home console where the games still hold up to play for actual fun. And plenty of NES games don’t stand up. But many, many do. The original Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Metroid, I can still play with great enjoyment. And I do every few years. Like returning to a favorite movie.

Bro, shots fired.

Not this one.

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Just look at pinball themes.

Best Atari game as I recall was Keystone Kapers. Your a crook running from the cops!

Atari games are super fun. Add me to the list of folks who think it's hilarious that a bunch of pinball fans are criticizing Atari games for being "old and boring."

They didn't sell millions of those things over 15 years because they weren't fun.

Atari's 50th anniversary was this year and its all part of the celebration. Yes, while the graphics are blocky and the audio a bit clunky by todays standards they are still pretty fun to fire up the old consoles of yesterday. Most of those games were around 2K bytes of memory at best. If you were a kid back then you know how fun Pit Fall, Tank, Warlords or Frogger were when you first played them. Its cool to see someone collect consoles and have the boxes, instructions etc. Living and breathing all things vid/pins/consoles since the 70s - I can appreciate it because well....we all are here in hobby collecting as we speak

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I remember playing Pitfall for what felt like forever. Was there an end to the game?

Perhaps Atari will fine tune E.T. ?

Add me as well!

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I was the kid on the block that had an Intellivision , but i would buy these! They would look cool on a shelf by my games.

I loved Pitfall II

You could actually "beat" the game. Had to collect the ring and find the monkey as i recall.

Imagic made killer stuff, their games always looked and sounded so good. I loved Atlantis and Cosmic Ark.

I had a huge collection of Atari stuff I picked up for pennies at mid 1990s yard sales, and sold it all on Ebay around 20 years ago. Like 250 games and a 7800.

Wish I'd kept it all of course, would be fun to play from time to time.

Yup, and so did Activision. Imagic was probably my favorite though

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I also enjoyed the old Spiderman game from atari.

I still have my Cosmic Ark I play with my son

you can buy the original cartridges for like $5 or less.

Damn straight... I still have my original cartridge

Nobody is buying these to play them. Look at the prices! $99! Limited variants for $150. These are meant to be purchased, get them fully graded, kept in plastic cases, hope they will be worth $$$ down the road.

No thanks

Some games aged better than others. I can play games like Mario, donkey Kong, Galaga, and pacman over and over like they were just made yesterday.

yep,

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Old games are old games. They can feel limited, or hold a special charm. It's really no different than whether or not you can enjoy modern LCD-based games and still appreciate playing EMs.

My vote for favorite Atari game that I think still hold up pretty well is Archon.

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http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/archon/

Archon rules but there's no way that thing was on Atari. Maybe Atari computers. I think when most people say "Atari" they mean the old 2600.

I used to play Archon and Archon II on the C64. They really were amazing and addictive games, especially against a pal.

I was going to say, I hope they charge the same price they did in the 80s... holy crap, they kept them the same price!

I remember we paid like $80 for that piece of crap ET.

Had Archon on my C64 . Most played game on that thing!

Interesting timing as the VCS is also being discontinued.
There is a 50th anniversary release out on all major consoles that is a playable virtual museum which is really cool, check it out.

My favorite atari 2600 games list:

Yars Revenge
Kaboom
Keystone capers
Pacman 8k version
Pitfall
Frogger
Circus
Warlords
Dodgem

I’d sooner buy one of these for $100.

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Even Halloween and Texas chainsaw massacre?

I have an original Fairchild Channel F (the first system ever to use cartridges) and about 20 carts. I had to replace one faulty screen RAM chip. I also bought a new multicart that has every original title on it as well as homebrew games like Pac-Man, Tetris and Lights Out. It's fun in an *extremely* retro way. Especially amazing how today's programmers are able to fit stuff like Pac-Man into the Ch F's tiny amount of memory and limited color palate and make it work.

I also have a few versions of those Atari Flashbacks.

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