Atari 2600+

I had a nice collection of Atari 2600 games back in the day. When I really wanted a Nintendo, I had to make do with a 2600, and this was after years of having to play at friend’s houses, wishing I had my own. But I did acquire a nice library, something I lent out, and never got back. The entire system and games, just gone. I think I had my Nintendo by that point, but still.

So, a very low priority project I have on the brain is to re-aquire all of the games that I had, and after some research, I have the list.

The good thing, though, is that Retron has a nice console for playing 2600 games, and also this week, Atari has a brand-new, updated 2600 console coming out.

I’m in no hurry for either one of these, but whenever I come across games (pretty rare), I’m going to pick them up. The good thing is that 2600 games are very cheap, but video game stores don’t stock them much as they don’t sell.

In any case, here is my list:

Asteroids Space Invaders Defender Defender II Phoenix Galaxian Missle Command Combat River Raid River Raid II Robot Tank

Jr. Pac Man Ms Pac Man Pac Man Frogger Q-Bert Donkey Kong Pitfall Pitfall II Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Atlantis Fathom

Riddle of the Sphinx No Escape! Chopper Command Starmaster  Demon Attack Spider-Man Journey Escape Spider Fighter Sea Quest Laser Blast Cosmic Arc Demon Attack

I know that there are mini-2600 consoles with more games on them, but those are emulated, they’ll have games I don’t want, and miss games that I do want.

It would be nice if there was a new Odyssey 2 console, but unfortunately those didn’t sell enough for anybody to make a retro console update. They sell for a reasonable price on eBay, but I can’t bring myself to get one, because of the room I don’t have for it. And, I can only remember two games that I really, really liked on it, although there were probably some other games for it that I liked.

The ColecoVision had a few games I liked as well.

All of these, are just things I’ll get if the opportunity arises. I’m not sure how much I’d play them if I had them, but it sure would be nice to have them around. Especially when not that many people seem to care about these ancient consoles… go into any video game store, and you’re lucky if you can find any of them, or their cartridges.