Atari 2600 Memories?

[Random Axe]

Some memories are blurry, but I recall my friend and I mapping out the game Adventure, drawing the map on paper so we could remember where we had and had not been. We were stoked when we finally won, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it did when we won. I know Brian was disappointed with the fishing game, but I was highly let down by the Empire Strikes Back game. Just flying around and shooting walkers that never seem to blow up...forever. That's literally all you do. At least with Defender you can pick little people up and drop them to their deaths. Yeah, good Atari times.

[Spawn67]

I remember clear as day going to Toy's R Us to buy Pac-Man with my father when it was first released.
I also remember that at our cub scouts meeting instead of doing project's we would just sit there and play Atari or Intellivision.
Also going over my friends houses to play the different games they had that I didn't.
Atari never kept me away from going outside and playing or playing with my many many toys unlike games kids play today.
About 12 years ago my cousin was doing community service at a goodwill. Someone brought in a working Atari plus a brand new one in the box along with 200 games! You better believe he kept them!
Good Times!

[Zemo]

That sounds like Combat. My Atari came with it as well. It had tanks, old biplanes and jets as I recall.

Chris

Yep that was the game, you could play with the tanks being invisible.

[EMCE Hammer]

Missile Command, Space Invaders, and Combat were faves with my cousins and me. We kept the 2600 at Grandma's and played it when we'd visit on weekends after church.

[domino]

Those were the good old days of fun. My brother and I would play for hours on end. By the time we were done our hands were sore and cramped. Football, Pitfall, Hero, Q-bert, Defender, Dig Dug I could go on and on. Our worst purchase was the infamous ET. What a horrible game that was. I still remember the day we found Custers Revenge under the couch. We played it a few times until dad hid it somewhere else.

I still have a 2600 and all this talk has made me want to play again.

[Meule]

My brother and me played it for hours and hours. Man, we had so much fun. I think it may still be up on my parent's attic somewhere

[Figuremod73]

To many memories to list. Going to a friends to play combat and missile command on weekends in between music videos is one of my favorite memories.

I have to say a Colecovision with the 2600 add-on was awesome. The NES is cool but it doesnt seem to have the replay value of a good old Atari.

[Hector]

I had both Atari 2600 and Intellivision I & II...as a matter of fact, I still have the Intellivision II and that big piano keyboard still in their boxes somewhere in my basement...I think I'm going to dig them out and sell them on eBay, lol.

I also got the Colecovision later.

Ah...those were the days, lol.

[cjefferys]

My sister and I finally got one for Christmas after over a year of bugging my parents for one (it seemed like almost everyone in school had one before we did!). I played that thing to death, my favourites were Pac-Man, Frogger, Pitfall, Dig Dug and Donkey Kong. My parents loved Kaboom!, my dad still talks about that game whenever the subject of video games comes up. By the time I got to high school, I got a Commodore 64 computer, and the games on that thing were way better, so our old 2600 fell to the wayside, probably ended up selling it at a yard sale.

During this past summer I picked up an Atari 7800 with a bunch of 7800 and 2600 games. At first I was excited, but now it seems those simple games just aren't as fun for me anymore, guess I got old and jaded or something. Then again, I find myself playing Frogger and Pac Man on my smartphone sometimes, so I guess some old games are timeless.

[Rallygirl]

I still had all my old games and controllers, but my console was toast. About ten years ago, I found another one at a thrift store. Every once in a while, I haul it all out to scare my nieces and nephews with it. I have Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Pitfall, Pong, target Fun, Blackjack, Stampede, Hangman, Seaquest, Adventure, Laser Blast, Super Breakout, and Barnstormers.

[HardyGirl]

Ok, long post alert!

My junior year in high-school, I was living w/ my dad and his girlfriend, and was one of 5 kids in the house; me, her 2 daughters, and my younger half bro and sis. My dad had serious health issues and money was TIGHT. Right before Christmas that year, all us kids had a meeting and decided that the only thing we wanted for Christmas was an Atari 2600. We combed the Pennysaver and found one w/ 7 games for $150. My dad agreed. It was great. Now I didn't, (and still don't) have the best eye-hand coordination, so stuck to games like Space Invaders, Pong, Air Sea Battle. I was a MASTER at the Pong games. My dad use to urge the older daughter and I to play for cake. My dad used to get cake mixes cheap, so the loser had to make the winner the cake of her choice. I used to CREAM her! My dad took pride in that I think. Anyway, when the re-issues came out in '87, I sold my console version, bought the slimmer version, along w/ newer games. Today, I have 183 games made by various companies for the Atari, and about 40 games for my Interllivision II (inherited from my nephew). Among my faves are Plaque Attack, E.T (3rd level w/ Elliot only), Demons to Diamonds, Space Invaders, Super Breakout, Video Olympics (Pong), Frogs and Flies, Name that Game, Bowling...and many others.

[drquest]

My buddy had one.

We always used to play some game where you'd find things (swords, medicine, etc) pick them up and trade them for other things ... I forgot the name.... was that Dragonstomper ?

Yes that was exact game, Dragonstomper. Supercharger games were ahead of their time, as the games were on cassette tape and you had to load them via a tape player. Cool stuff for the 2600!

I still have my Supercharger....

[Earth 2 Chris]

I forgot about having Barnstormer and Frogger (how could I forget Frogger?). I also had a Frogger-like game with a chicken crossing the road. Anyone know the name of that one?

Chris

[johnmiic]

I used to love Super-Breakout. I used to get the ball between 2 brick wall levels and it would take off mike a mutha. Dibba-dibba-dibba-dibba-dibba-dibba-dibba-dibba-dibba-dibba-dibba! I liked Asteroids and even figured out the Indiana Jones game one afternoon.

[Donkey Hoatie]

Tons of great memories of playing on the 2600. My favorites were Asteroids, Pitfall!, Adventure, Pacman, Combat, Defender, and Frogger. I remember having a subscription to some Atari magazine (was it called Atari Age?, I can't remember). One month, the instructions came out for finding the Easter Egg inside the Adventure game where you had to find the invisible dot in the maze, place it behind the wall and then bring the chalice in to unlock a secret room that listed a bunch of designers' names. I remember thinking that was the coolest thing in the world. Adventure was a pretty easy game to master, so my brothers and I would have challenges to see who could win the game in the shortest amount of time. So, to add another dimension of interest to the game was fun.