April 14, 2003

atari 2600 sticky joy.

I'm aware that I'm about 6 months behind 'the zeitgeist' on this one, but whilst wandering around Target in San Jose, cursing wildly that all the widescreen DVDs of 'Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets' had been snapped up, happened to find the Atari 10-in-1 TV Game for 20 bucks in the toy section. Even though I didn't have an Atari 2600 of my own, I obviously love the classic Atari-developed releases for it, and having 'Gravitar', 'Circus Atari', or even 'Adventure' playable on an authentic Atari joystick, just by putting some batteries into it and plugging it into your TV - why, that rocks. It's legal emulation, innit? For the record, the other, more well-known games on there are 'Missile Command', 'Breakout', 'Pong', 'Centipede', 'Asteroids', 'Yar's Revenge', and (this one more obscurer!) 'Real Sports Volleyball'. Remember that stuff like 'Asteroids' is the blocky, but still cool Atari 2600 version - ie, no vector graphics here. :P There's also an Activision TV Game, also starring Atari 2600 games, and done by the same developers (Jakks/DC Studios), but the controller is kinda generic and 3rd-party plastic-looking, and the games, except 'Pitfall' and 'River Raid', seem a bit less interesting to me.

Posted by h0l211 at April 14, 2003 04:15 PM