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Old 05-04-2010, 02:11 PM   #1
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Post A Pic Your Favorite Atari Game

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Old 05-04-2010, 02:19 PM   #2
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I grew up in a TI-99 family, so...

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Old 05-04-2010, 02:20 PM   #3
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:20 PM   #4
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:21 PM   #5
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:23 PM   #6
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:31 PM   #7
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Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!!

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Old 05-04-2010, 02:36 PM   #8
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:41 PM   #9
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:45 PM   #10
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:46 PM   #11
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I lost track of the number of joysticks I destroyed playing that game.
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:47 PM   #12
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Speaking of Activision, who else took pics of their TVs and sent off for these patches?

AtariAge - 2600 Activision Patch Gallery
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:09 PM   #13
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I lost track of the number of joysticks I destroyed playing that game.


We used to just take the controller apart and use the circuit board, we got better times that way.
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:12 PM   #14
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Pitfall would be up there.



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Old 05-04-2010, 03:22 PM   #15
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:25 PM   #16
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River Raid! I was going to post it...but it gets a +1 from me.
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:29 PM   #17
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:38 PM   #18
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:41 PM   #19
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:50 PM   #20
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:50 PM   #21
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For early console games though, nothing beats..

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Old 05-04-2010, 03:52 PM   #22
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Lotta good memories in this thread. Here's another.
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Old 05-04-2010, 04:07 PM   #23
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Bonus points for anybody who can name every game in every post
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Old 05-04-2010, 04:10 PM   #24
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We were also one of the beta users for this:

GameLine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The remnants of which went on to form America Online. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to hook your 2600 up to the phone and play games. Little did I know what that would lead to!
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Old 05-04-2010, 04:17 PM   #25
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River Raid! I was going to post it...but it gets a +1 from me.

I have the patch for it somewhere in a box at my parents' house to answer to posts at once.
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Old 05-04-2010, 05:08 PM   #26
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Old 05-04-2010, 05:17 PM   #27
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Old 05-04-2010, 05:24 PM   #28
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Old 05-04-2010, 05:26 PM   #29
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Old 05-04-2010, 05:50 PM   #30
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I remember this arcade game very well.

One of the most popular in the arcade.
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Old 05-04-2010, 05:54 PM   #31
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That image reminds me that I played the SHIT out of some Superman....but I can't quite remember why/how.
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Old 05-04-2010, 05:57 PM   #32
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Old 05-04-2010, 06:03 PM   #33
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Awesome picks.

This one was also my favorite.
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Old 05-04-2010, 06:23 PM   #34
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Let me know when you guys do this for Intellivision. I never really played Atari growing up. This is the only game I really played for Atari:

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Old 05-04-2010, 06:26 PM   #35
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Old 05-04-2010, 06:30 PM   #36
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This kicked lots of ass, too.

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Old 05-04-2010, 06:31 PM   #37
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Old 05-04-2010, 06:43 PM   #38
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Dude. I must have blown that freaking AT-AT up a billion times. Loved this game.
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Old 05-04-2010, 07:00 PM   #39
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This kicked lots of ass, too.


Yes. Thank you for finding it for me. That's the one!
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Old 05-04-2010, 07:01 PM   #40
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Old 05-04-2010, 08:11 PM   #41
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Kaboom! was mine as well.
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Old 05-04-2010, 08:42 PM   #42
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Yes. Thank you for finding it for me. That's the one!

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Old 05-04-2010, 08:48 PM   #43
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That image reminds me that I played the SHIT out of some Superman....but I can't quite remember why/how.

Along those same lines...



Can't remember why I played ET that much...but I did
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Old 05-04-2010, 09:16 PM   #44
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We used to just take the controller apart and use the circuit board, we got better times that way.

I did the same thing.

This thread is making me want to get my 2600 out. I've still got it in the basement with about 40 games.
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Old 05-04-2010, 09:23 PM   #46
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Uh-huh! Oh yeah!

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Old 05-04-2010, 09:26 PM   #47
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Thought for sure we'd see this by now...

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Old 05-04-2010, 09:37 PM   #48
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