I recently picked up 2 2600 consoles, one heavy sixer, one light. I open the heavy sixer up and the power regulator does not look like any of the ones i've seen on youtube (picture attached). My first thought was, "fck someone swapped the board", but after doing some light research it seems like this was one of the early heavy sixer models.

My question is, if I'm planning on doing one of the "touch up" kits that includes capacitors and a new regulator, has anyone had experience replacing the 7805 in one of these assemblies? Do I still need thermal paste? (guessing yes)

Estoy haciendo un juego para atari 2600. Y cuando lo pruebo en la consola,los colores son otros a los que yo programe. Porque ocurre esto si lo tengo todo configurado en PAL??

A buddy of mine was moving and gave me his 2600 stash. This was among the stuff. I plugged it in last night and played Asteroids for over an hour. Along with Megamania, Galaxian, Midnight Magic and Pole Position. It really changed the gameplay for the better, especially on Midnight Magic. Using the L/R buttons for the flippers was a great experience. 1 AA battery is all it needs.

Funny enough, if you moved the Up/Down buttons to above and below the L/R buttons, you would literally have an early D-Pad. Bigger than an NES controller but still fits in your hand comfortably. Solid device, I can't wait to explore more games.

So I suggested that he make me a dust cover for the cartridge slot for my 2600+!

Tested it recently, but couldn’t get a picture to come through, at all really. We thought it’s PAL but maybe it’s NTSC? Would like to nail down what converter I’d need to get to make it work…

Has anyone here bought from Atari Age? I bought a trio of homebrew Atari 2600 cartridges from them like 3 weeks ago and have gotten no shipping notice, I emailed their customer service twice and got no response, and I tweeted at their account and also got no response.

I finally have Slot Racers for my Atari 2600! 😃 I'm excited to add this classic game to my collection and enjoy some old-school Atari racing action! Who else remembers playing this game?

Late to the party here. A lot of people have talked about the new 2600+ and 7800+ being emulation based systems. What does this exactly mean?

Is it that the systems:

1. Have an entire library of 2600/7800 games in them and the cartridges basically select the game?

or

1. The system loads everything from the cartridge into memory and then plays the game.

Edit: I have a 2600 JR. I was looking for new joysticks and paddles and one of the console bundles was appealing, price wise.

I Really like this version for some reason!

I have heard that the 7800 and pac man systems have better hardware than the wood grain 2600 plus. You think they will replace the hardware so it’s the same as the 7700 and pac man ?

Have to do a move and thought this pic of my displayed collection looked pretty cool in a box 😎

Nothing is better than turn on the Atari for people who played decades ago.

Hello all! I am working on my first Atari 2600 game and I'm looking for some feedback. This has proven very tricky to balance and in the end only real players can say if the game is fair (or fun)

Toy Wars is a new Atari 2600-style game: defend the toy box from monsters marching along three shelves. Play here: https://plicerin.github.io/toywars/ (instructions are on the page). Please let me know if anything felt unfair, slow or confusing, and more importantly if you enjoyed it.

The prople at console repairs were unhelpful so i figured i could come here. Brother bought console for father, wouldn't turn on, opened to find this. Holes burnt through and trace missing. I think i can use jumper wires but just need some guidance.

Here's my new game: Specimen. It's a 64K game. No ARM/co-processor. Just plain old Atari hardware with the exception of the heavy-duty bank switching.

GAME FEATURES

 Specimen is a one player game. It's both a space shooter and a "drop item to get it into other object" game. Similar to Crackpots, I guess.

• NTSC only, for now. I'll develop a PAL60 when I get the chance.
• The goal of the game is to collect 2 specimens per planet environment. Air and ground defenses will try to stop you on the planets. Satellites and bosses will try to stop you in orbit.
• 50 worlds (5 settings × 10 backgrounds), 30 animated sprites (10 creatures, 10 vehicles, 10 aircraft), 40 satellite designs, 10 bosses each with its own movement pattern, 19 songs and 28 sound effects, five cut-scenes, a sorting mini-game, an ending and an Easter egg.

Play it on Javatari

Full details in the Atariage forums.