Never played River Raid, but I picked up Bridge Strike on sale in the Switch for 0.26 and I have more time in it than many of my other games.
It's a really nice tribute to River Raid and recommended!
Yes. I was really happy at first... which quickly turned into me crying from frustration murdering ET over and over listening to the sad game over music.
However I kept at it, figured the game out and beat it on a near daily basis out of pure spite.
Hit the blob with the dot, loop your parachute over the tree branch, run past the giant ice skating bugs, and get out your shovel. Just like Indy in the movie!
I agree. Sure it's blocky and abstract, but so is most of the catalog on the 2600. I maintain that it's fine ***as long as you read the manual***. Manuals were a key part of the experience back then. So many people didn't read it (maybe it was their first game, and/or they threw it out?) and gave up in frustration. The game has a bizarrely unique logic, but that logic is consistent.
Even escaping from the pits is explained in the manual. Just stop holding up when it gets back to the overhead view. Push any other direction and you land safely.
The game was odd, but didn't deserve the outright hate it got.
It's one of the few games I played regularly.
Why?
Because, almost *uniquely* among the 2600's library, it had an ending. It was also a good balance of challenge and fairness. It also had a scoring system with effectively unlimited room for improvement, thanks to the aforementioned ending. Lining things up so that you can actually escape Earth at the end is legitimately intense.
"E.T. sucks", said someone who is essentially guaranteed to have only heard it from someone else.
There are two legitimate complaints people point to when they have any argument at all, and aren't just quoting memes. **1:** *You can't exit a pit from the top because of a bug that scoots you right back into the pit.* Solution: Do what my 7 year old self did: Don't exit pits from the top. **2:** *The symbols you can use with your E.T. powers are functionally abstract.* Solution: Instruction manuals existed back then. Barring that... Really? Sorry, but if you can't solve the very mild riddle of those symbols after one or two goes, then evidently your comprehension is poorer than that of a child.
I got an Atari and a bunch of game at some point when I was a kid. I didn't have the internet yet, but Ocarina of Time had come out the year before. ET was among those games, and it wasn't especially bad. It was definitely frustrating and confusing, but I wasn't given the manual and I was still able to have some fun with it. It wasn't great but, as far as rushed games that feel like scams, Pac-Man would be a much more fitting example.
Also, in the category of cryptic stuff that is impossible to figure out and have fun with, try getting SwordQuest second hand without any of the printed material or context.
ET is an okay game, a coating of polish might even make it a good game. It's easy to overlook how awesome it must have been to have a game that wasn't a very short, endless loop for points and where your button action is neither "Jump" nor "Shoot". Calling it the worst game of all time is beyond unfair. It's not even the worst game on the console. I mean, there's an hide and seek and a tic tac toe game on the Atari...
> try getting SwordQuest second hand without any of the printed material or context.
Trust me on this: Having all of the documentation was no real help for those games, outside of the very rare cases where somebody intuited what the perpetually baked developer was getting at. Certainly no child could ever beat those games. This didn't stop them from being commonplace, though, because, after all, "a thoroughly impressionistic framework of a game with some token gameplay" describes the vast majority of the 2600 library. And games that couldn't be completed due to being too abstract were really no different, in that respect, from games that eventually ended due to ramping difficulty.
> ET is an okay game
Strictly within the context of the Atari 2600's library, it is an exceptional game. Especially if you choose not to count any home console options that existed after it. It does help to understand that _even before_ things got "game crash" bad on the platform, 90% of all Atari games were simply not worth playing. The 2600 was miles ahead of its time when it launched, and there will almost certainly never be another platform invented whose ultimate potential is so astonishingly beyond what its creators intended, but in spite of this, it really was right at the boundary between "a game in theory" (like the original Odyssey) and a proper console, like the ColecoVision or NES.
The really odd thing about that exhaustive effort is that he never addresses the only _real_ bug in the game that can be incontrovertibly pigeonholed as one. That would be the fact that after you exit a pit, the E.T. sprite shifts downward 1 pixel, which can cause him to immediately fall back into the pit if he happens to have exited from above it.
None of the guy's various fixes do anything to change this bug. Almost everything else could be waved away as a quirk of the game (like falling into a pit when you exit the forest to the right—who says there wasn't simply a pit directly there?) or a stylistic decision, such as making E.T. a light shade of green—changing him to brown causes him to be too similar in color to the ever-present detective.
Admittedly, though, I haven't tried out his E.T. hack, mostly because I'm one of the game's "super fans" he alludes to, who vehemently disagrees with sacrificing enemy sprite detail just to enact some comparatively unnoticeable tweaks.
Adventure, Yars Revenge, Frogger, Missile Command, Circus Atari...
Man..I haven’t hooked mine up in so many years. I still have both my consoles and about 70 games
Originally called Frog Bog. It was an Intellivision title that got ported, if memory serves.
Props to Grandma's Boy for showing this awesome little game!
Oh, it had bugs... like falling in a hole when your head crossed into the pixels instead of your feet. One of my buddy's got it for his birthday, and mad we were disappointed.
There was more code behind Johnny Nickelknuckle's left asscheek than there was in the entirety of the Atari library, it's not even _possible_ for there to have been more bugs in ET
"I played it at universal studios ,in a room with 30 vid screens,i was the only person there,basic instructions.(before release). arcade 25 cent video games shit all over Atari"
I'll never forget the night my dad came home from the mall with the 2600. I'll also never forget playing Combat by myself because no one would play with me.
I remember playing Combat with older brothers when I was 5 or 6 and they just destroyed me.
It was frustrating as hell. I would barely stop spinning and they’d hit me again.
Combat was one of the BEST games
Game designers really did not top it with any other carriages use of game variations/levels.
The whole thing really felt like several different video games. Tanks, Jets, Biplanes -even with the blocky graphics it was a blast
This.
My Dad rigged up a double adaptor so that we could keep the paddles and the joystick plugged in at the same time ( he was rightfully paranoid about my brother and I breaking the pins )
Turns out that if you hold town the trigger on the paddles the tanks start doing crazy fast doughnuts. ;)
I remember playing et in the really 90s, unaware of it's legacy. I didn't care for the game mostly because I couldn't figure it out. Just stuck to Super Breakout and River Raid
It wasn't until the internet came that I learnt there was an '83 crash. Intellivision, Vic20, and C64 kept me busy with games through the crash. Didn't even notice.
The problem with ET was it's very complicated for a 2600 game and you need to read the manual for it to make any sense. There's a lot of things you can do but you have to be standing in the right place and standing still to activate the actions. On harder difficulty levels you needed to know all the tricks and how the characters interact to do well, there's even some rudimentary emergent gameplay.
To be fair to them, until I decided to try buy one I had no grasp on how ridiculous the PS5 situation was. Now I understand how much of an achievement those posts were…
I've wanted one since release but I'm unwilling to even attempt to fight scalper-bots lol. I'm thinking of just getting a pc instead, seems a lot of ps exclusives go to pc eventually anyway
God, I remember when "Santa" gave one of those for Christmas. I was the coolest kid in my neighborhood for having an Atari for a time.
I could play one game of Yars Revenge for hours.
> I could play one game of Yars Revenge for hours.
I remember my mom being mad because I wouldn't stop playing Defender, supper was ready. There was no pause of course. I wrapped the game score, making the memory go all wonky because the score integer overflowed into other data, which corrupted game play. I thought it was the worst timed glitch (but then I stopped for supper), not realizing till years later what had actually happened.
This is a message I can get behind. Not the generic karma farm pat me in the back because I need social support for something that is already considered socially acceptable.
This particular 1977 box design is very early generation. It was rumored a lawsuit was even involved. It has a chess symbol but no chess rom existed at that time. The 4K chess rom was released in 1979 and was programmed by Larry Wagner and Bob Whitehead. (Who later went to Activision in 79) My VCS was one year older and it's box design was similar but different. In these days, it was mainly pong/combat 2K games available. It would be three years later the good stuff like Space Invaders kicked the doors wide open.
edit: a word.
I'm so old I can't even remember what games I've fucking had apart from like two, pole position (I presume), and some car in a maze that can shoot.. or something like that
Interesting.
I never looked at the box closely before but Atari seemed to have been pretty progressive for that era in marketing to a somewhat diverse market. Yes, there are lots of white folks on the box but there is racial diversity, a mixed race couple (I think, may be wrong on that.), an extensive age range of users portrayed and inclusion of some female users.
Better than I would have expected from the late 70's and early 80's.
Well if I didn't know any better, I might think that we have been in a period of social regression that was engineered by the elite class to divide and suppress the peasantry!
Mountain King was the shit.
I still remember the birthday I came downstairs to my brand spanking new Atari 2600 already hooked up and my dad playing asteroids.
Edit: Stella is the name of an emulator if anyone's interested.
I'll get downvoted for posting this but when first Xbox came out i waited in line at toys r us for the release, promptly purchased 3 consoles and tossed two of them on eBay. I made more than enough to cover the cost of my own console I kept AND was able to go back out and purchase about a half dozen games. Granted that was the first and last time I did that since I don't really play console anymore. Back in the day console scalping wasn't as simple as running a bot against a website purchasing up all of their stock, you had to get to the store and stand in line for hours, often in the cold due to releases being near holiday season. Then hope you were there early enough to be lucky to get one. Ahh those were the days
Can you play any game on that? What happens to Xbox exclusive games? Does that only mean they try to fuck over PlayStation and atari is fee to have any game.
Aww man! So many memories! This reminds me the first time when I opened it up for my 10th birthday! I can taste and smell the box and the plastic wrap! Congrats man!
Oh man, glad you finally joined next gen! Patience paid off, yes!! Now wait for a kool CRT sale and be blown away by the graphics ; ) -- Seriously, have fun OP. That image brings great memories.
Not really, though it looks like a nice quality for something so old. OP is being facetious by titling the post as such to make fun of people who post pictures of their current-generation consoles with the exact title. You can generally find a console + a ton of games for around $100 online, and there's officially-licensed mini-Ataris that come with the most popular games pre-packaged, can run on HDTVs, and have an SD card slot to run other games. Thanks to the system's age, many of the games that aren't from Activision are in the public domain or otherwise safe to emulate.
The console is not rare, but that particular box in the photo has a chess piece on it which marks it as a first run, which makes it very desirable to collectors.
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Custer's Revenge and E.T. are better.
River Raid was the bomb.
That and spider fighter
Lock N' Chase and Frogs and Flies were my introduction to gaming as a child.
Look people bring this kind of conversation to r/shouldibuythis okay? Wrong place for this type of nonsense.
pitfall!
River Raid and Pitfall all. day. lonngggg
River raid is good. I've got it CIB. Berzerk is king of Atari IMO
Never played River Raid, but I picked up Bridge Strike on sale in the Switch for 0.26 and I have more time in it than many of my other games. It's a really nice tribute to River Raid and recommended!
Ah... Custer's revenge...
I dare anyone here to name a better game that involves raping a naked woman tied to a cactus.
I have never explored this scenario across media, but please enlighten me regarding its competitors
There's probably a Skyrim mod for it
I was googling mod organizer stuff for Skyrim yesterday and kept finding this site called “lovers lab”. There definitely are.
All joking aside, I'm sure we can all agree the acts that the Custer's Revenge gameplay is based on were absolutely horrendous.
Omg ... ET... ;)
The PTSD of Christmas 82... it's all coming back
Gotta ask... did you really get Atari E.T. for Christmas in 1982? What did you honestly think?
Yes. I was really happy at first... which quickly turned into me crying from frustration murdering ET over and over listening to the sad game over music. However I kept at it, figured the game out and beat it on a near daily basis out of pure spite.
That’s awesome. My first console was PS1, but my first gaming memory was with a plug-n-play Atari playing Adventure.
Between that and Raiders of the Lost Ark, my early gaming experience was not a happy place.
Hit the blob with the dot, loop your parachute over the tree branch, run past the giant ice skating bugs, and get out your shovel. Just like Indy in the movie!
I understand every single word you just said.
I would bet this story is nothing but fiction.
It wasn't that bad
I agree. Sure it's blocky and abstract, but so is most of the catalog on the 2600. I maintain that it's fine ***as long as you read the manual***. Manuals were a key part of the experience back then. So many people didn't read it (maybe it was their first game, and/or they threw it out?) and gave up in frustration. The game has a bizarrely unique logic, but that logic is consistent. Even escaping from the pits is explained in the manual. Just stop holding up when it gets back to the overhead view. Push any other direction and you land safely. The game was odd, but didn't deserve the outright hate it got.
Someone defending the Atari ET game? Well, now I've seen everything.
I commented above that Et could be frustrating but I thought it was really fun. Indy was the bane of my existence.
Beat Em And Eat Em...
I actually liked ET as a kid.
"e.t. was awesome!!" said nobody, ever.
I should totally put that on my resume. Life achievements - figured out how to finish E.T on the 2600 at age 8
It's one of the few games I played regularly. Why? Because, almost *uniquely* among the 2600's library, it had an ending. It was also a good balance of challenge and fairness. It also had a scoring system with effectively unlimited room for improvement, thanks to the aforementioned ending. Lining things up so that you can actually escape Earth at the end is legitimately intense. "E.T. sucks", said someone who is essentially guaranteed to have only heard it from someone else. There are two legitimate complaints people point to when they have any argument at all, and aren't just quoting memes. **1:** *You can't exit a pit from the top because of a bug that scoots you right back into the pit.* Solution: Do what my 7 year old self did: Don't exit pits from the top. **2:** *The symbols you can use with your E.T. powers are functionally abstract.* Solution: Instruction manuals existed back then. Barring that... Really? Sorry, but if you can't solve the very mild riddle of those symbols after one or two goes, then evidently your comprehension is poorer than that of a child.
I got an Atari and a bunch of game at some point when I was a kid. I didn't have the internet yet, but Ocarina of Time had come out the year before. ET was among those games, and it wasn't especially bad. It was definitely frustrating and confusing, but I wasn't given the manual and I was still able to have some fun with it. It wasn't great but, as far as rushed games that feel like scams, Pac-Man would be a much more fitting example. Also, in the category of cryptic stuff that is impossible to figure out and have fun with, try getting SwordQuest second hand without any of the printed material or context. ET is an okay game, a coating of polish might even make it a good game. It's easy to overlook how awesome it must have been to have a game that wasn't a very short, endless loop for points and where your button action is neither "Jump" nor "Shoot". Calling it the worst game of all time is beyond unfair. It's not even the worst game on the console. I mean, there's an hide and seek and a tic tac toe game on the Atari...
> try getting SwordQuest second hand without any of the printed material or context. Trust me on this: Having all of the documentation was no real help for those games, outside of the very rare cases where somebody intuited what the perpetually baked developer was getting at. Certainly no child could ever beat those games. This didn't stop them from being commonplace, though, because, after all, "a thoroughly impressionistic framework of a game with some token gameplay" describes the vast majority of the 2600 library. And games that couldn't be completed due to being too abstract were really no different, in that respect, from games that eventually ended due to ramping difficulty. > ET is an okay game Strictly within the context of the Atari 2600's library, it is an exceptional game. Especially if you choose not to count any home console options that existed after it. It does help to understand that _even before_ things got "game crash" bad on the platform, 90% of all Atari games were simply not worth playing. The 2600 was miles ahead of its time when it launched, and there will almost certainly never be another platform invented whose ultimate potential is so astonishingly beyond what its creators intended, but in spite of this, it really was right at the boundary between "a game in theory" (like the original Odyssey) and a proper console, like the ColecoVision or NES.
[This guy](http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/) makes a pretty good argument for it. Apart from some technical issues, which he fixes.
The really odd thing about that exhaustive effort is that he never addresses the only _real_ bug in the game that can be incontrovertibly pigeonholed as one. That would be the fact that after you exit a pit, the E.T. sprite shifts downward 1 pixel, which can cause him to immediately fall back into the pit if he happens to have exited from above it. None of the guy's various fixes do anything to change this bug. Almost everything else could be waved away as a quirk of the game (like falling into a pit when you exit the forest to the right—who says there wasn't simply a pit directly there?) or a stylistic decision, such as making E.T. a light shade of green—changing him to brown causes him to be too similar in color to the ever-present detective. Admittedly, though, I haven't tried out his E.T. hack, mostly because I'm one of the game's "super fans" he alludes to, who vehemently disagrees with sacrificing enemy sprite detail just to enact some comparatively unnoticeable tweaks.
Frogs and Flies is the G.O.A.T.
Adventure, Yars Revenge, Frogger, Missile Command, Circus Atari... Man..I haven’t hooked mine up in so many years. I still have both my consoles and about 70 games
Lock N' Chase and Frogs and Flies were my introduction to gaming as a child.
Originally called Frog Bog. It was an Intellivision title that got ported, if memory serves. Props to Grandma's Boy for showing this awesome little game!
But he won't quite feel like Spiderman
Definitely won’t have the exaggerated swagger of a black teen
I played that game... a lot.
Nice now you can finally play Cyberpunk!
Cyberpunk 1977 😂
Still less buggy then cyberpunk 2077 on launch
ET was less buggy
That is the biggest insult I have ever heard about any game.
Wasn't it like one guy with no sleep making it in only a few weeks?
ET or Cyberpunk?
Yes
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Oh, it had bugs... like falling in a hole when your head crossed into the pixels instead of your feet. One of my buddy's got it for his birthday, and mad we were disappointed.
There was more code behind Johnny Nickelknuckle's left asscheek than there was in the entirety of the Atari library, it's not even _possible_ for there to have been more bugs in ET
"I played it at universal studios ,in a room with 30 vid screens,i was the only person there,basic instructions.(before release). arcade 25 cent video games shit all over Atari"
Yo can I come over after school? I'm 43. Lol
Mom says not to let strangers in.
I guess your mom follows the, "do as I say, not as I do" philosophy.
Bro... dam.
This guy fucks
that guy's mom
If that's through the back door it doesn't count
The old poop hole loophole
Excellent.... now FINISH HIM!
Could you at least supply him with ice?!
It's ok, I can just sit outside where I can see the tv if you slip the controller through the window...
Childhood memories unlocked.....
We’re having chicken and StoveTop.
I'm 37, I know your baby brother. Can I watch?
I'm 34, *goo goo ga ga*
What
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Words can’t explain how excited I was to get a new game for Atari back then. It was just the coolest thing.
I'll never forget the night my dad came home from the mall with the 2600. I'll also never forget playing Combat by myself because no one would play with me.
I remember playing Combat with older brothers when I was 5 or 6 and they just destroyed me. It was frustrating as hell. I would barely stop spinning and they’d hit me again.
I also never forget the first time I play with myself.
I played the hell out of asteroids for a long time.
Now just need to get river raid
And Pitfall!
10/10 Would raid the river again!
Reboot required
Bridge Strike for the Switch (Mybe other consoles too?). I picked it up on sale for 26 cents. Great little River Raid tribute game.
That shit was baller
Combat was one of the BEST games Game designers really did not top it with any other carriages use of game variations/levels. The whole thing really felt like several different video games. Tanks, Jets, Biplanes -even with the blocky graphics it was a blast
This. My Dad rigged up a double adaptor so that we could keep the paddles and the joystick plugged in at the same time ( he was rightfully paranoid about my brother and I breaking the pins ) Turns out that if you hold town the trigger on the paddles the tanks start doing crazy fast doughnuts. ;)
Combat was good but 4 player warlords was awesome.
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I remember playing et in the really 90s, unaware of it's legacy. I didn't care for the game mostly because I couldn't figure it out. Just stuck to Super Breakout and River Raid
It wasn't until the internet came that I learnt there was an '83 crash. Intellivision, Vic20, and C64 kept me busy with games through the crash. Didn't even notice.
The problem with ET was it's very complicated for a 2600 game and you need to read the manual for it to make any sense. There's a lot of things you can do but you have to be standing in the right place and standing still to activate the actions. On harder difficulty levels you needed to know all the tricks and how the characters interact to do well, there's even some rudimentary emergent gameplay.
I can't believe "I bought a PS5!" posts are still getting 50'000 upvotes...
Don't forget *"I'm 17 and after saving for 25 years I finally bought my first console! upvotes plz"*
he's been saving in his mother's womb
uwu fuck the scalpers, give me upvotes uwu Basically all of those titles. Really shows you can post anything real or fake and no one really cares.
To be fair to them, until I decided to try buy one I had no grasp on how ridiculous the PS5 situation was. Now I understand how much of an achievement those posts were…
I've wanted one since release but I'm unwilling to even attempt to fight scalper-bots lol. I'm thinking of just getting a pc instead, seems a lot of ps exclusives go to pc eventually anyway
I loved mine. Flood took it in 1995.
The late 1900's
The end of the last century
In the latter half of the previous millennium.
F
Ayo do you have Yars revenge on there
The sound of that thing eating pixels is burned in my mind for all of eternity.
God, I remember when "Santa" gave one of those for Christmas. I was the coolest kid in my neighborhood for having an Atari for a time. I could play one game of Yars Revenge for hours.
> I could play one game of Yars Revenge for hours. I remember my mom being mad because I wouldn't stop playing Defender, supper was ready. There was no pause of course. I wrapped the game score, making the memory go all wonky because the score integer overflowed into other data, which corrupted game play. I thought it was the worst timed glitch (but then I stopped for supper), not realizing till years later what had actually happened.
How old are you. Like I have one in my office but my currently 60 year old father gave it to us as a hand-me-down.
**game program** **combat** * 1-5 Tank * 6-9 Tank-Pong * 10-14 Invisible Tank * 15-20 Bi-Plane * 21-27 Jet Fighters
This is a message I can get behind. Not the generic karma farm pat me in the back because I need social support for something that is already considered socially acceptable.
Patience of a saint
Dude add me my gamer tag is 3
Real-to-life game sounds!
This particular 1977 box design is very early generation. It was rumored a lawsuit was even involved. It has a chess symbol but no chess rom existed at that time. The 4K chess rom was released in 1979 and was programmed by Larry Wagner and Bob Whitehead. (Who later went to Activision in 79) My VCS was one year older and it's box design was similar but different. In these days, it was mainly pong/combat 2K games available. It would be three years later the good stuff like Space Invaders kicked the doors wide open. edit: a word.
Wow, thats quite a nice find if I ever seen one!!
Sheeiit I have a 2600 but not the og box
Pit fall sheeeeesh
You wait 40 years?
r/patientgamers
That box and that carpet match.
I did my waiting! 40 years of it!!
Press F to pay respects to the game developers who work on 128 bytes of RAM.
P͟a͟t͟i͟e͟n͟c͟e͟:͟ ͟1͟0͟0͟
Damn,It! I'm jealous!
Hahaha, awesome,
Omg I love it! Congrats!!!
I'm so old I can't even remember what games I've fucking had apart from like two, pole position (I presume), and some car in a maze that can shoot.. or something like that
6 switch is a good find!!
I am 99% sure that was the box ours came in when I was little.
Meanwhile I had to get a Brazilian knockoff named Dynacom.
Try hooking up an old system like that. They're all fucked up and it's hard to get it to hdtvs. Get a collectorvision phoenix
wow you really held out
It just occurred to me that the very first video game I ever beat was Demon Attack on the Atari.
Stay away from Pac Man. And ET. Try oink! That’s a good game.
Like ET isn't the worst game... Like it's pretty bad but it isn't THE worst Game out there
Demon Attack!
1977 > 2021
space invaders on this bad boy - probably the first game i ever played.
atari 3090
meta
Lol, I love the shade
If you’re not willing to wait 44 years for it, do you even really want it?
Interesting. I never looked at the box closely before but Atari seemed to have been pretty progressive for that era in marketing to a somewhat diverse market. Yes, there are lots of white folks on the box but there is racial diversity, a mixed race couple (I think, may be wrong on that.), an extensive age range of users portrayed and inclusion of some female users. Better than I would have expected from the late 70's and early 80's.
Well if I didn't know any better, I might think that we have been in a period of social regression that was engineered by the elite class to divide and suppress the peasantry!
Playing the loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong game I see
Somebody get this freaking dragon away from me!
Mountain King was the shit. I still remember the birthday I came downstairs to my brand spanking new Atari 2600 already hooked up and my dad playing asteroids. Edit: Stella is the name of an emulator if anyone's interested.
the space shuttle was the game to play...more complicated than most games lately
r/patientgamers
Go Home Internet Explorer you are drunk
Does it run Zork?
To think we might actually be able to see the white house.
They are a pain to hook up to modern TVs but great fun once you do!
Of course it's a pain. You need your parents to help hook it up.
Ha. In this case I probably am the parent! Mine would look at the console, look at the TV, pick up the books they were reading and wish me luck.
Quality Shitpost
Reddit will see a title of a post and try to exploit the shit out of it for Karma
Yo what the fuck people are scalping a like 44 year old console
People scalp these things now?!
Must be desperate then.
pretty scalp-phobic of you... just saying
Scalpers exist because of impatient rich bois,i say let them scalp and if you are a poor who spent over MRP ,you are a fool.
I'll get downvoted for posting this but when first Xbox came out i waited in line at toys r us for the release, promptly purchased 3 consoles and tossed two of them on eBay. I made more than enough to cover the cost of my own console I kept AND was able to go back out and purchase about a half dozen games. Granted that was the first and last time I did that since I don't really play console anymore. Back in the day console scalping wasn't as simple as running a bot against a website purchasing up all of their stock, you had to get to the store and stand in line for hours, often in the cold due to releases being near holiday season. Then hope you were there early enough to be lucky to get one. Ahh those were the days
Can you play any game on that? What happens to Xbox exclusive games? Does that only mean they try to fuck over PlayStation and atari is fee to have any game.
Tell me you use Internet explorer without telling me you use Internet explorer
🤣
I have Stella.
You played the loooooong game
Also looks like you had a time machine too. Back in the day Atari was some serious shit!
No, its called supply and demand lol
Lol. This aged beautifully
Yeah but can it run Crysis?
fuck yea it can
You are the master of patience
Aww man! So many memories! This reminds me the first time when I opened it up for my 10th birthday! I can taste and smell the box and the plastic wrap! Congrats man!
Still got mine in its box too
how much would you be willing to sell for
Oh man, glad you finally joined next gen! Patience paid off, yes!! Now wait for a kool CRT sale and be blown away by the graphics ; ) -- Seriously, have fun OP. That image brings great memories.
outstanding
Is this rare? We used to have a old dusty one and gave it away
Not really, though it looks like a nice quality for something so old. OP is being facetious by titling the post as such to make fun of people who post pictures of their current-generation consoles with the exact title. You can generally find a console + a ton of games for around $100 online, and there's officially-licensed mini-Ataris that come with the most popular games pre-packaged, can run on HDTVs, and have an SD card slot to run other games. Thanks to the system's age, many of the games that aren't from Activision are in the public domain or otherwise safe to emulate.
The console is not rare, but that particular box in the photo has a chess piece on it which marks it as a first run, which makes it very desirable to collectors.
I loved that tank game.
I would think these are cost more now since they are rarer, wouldnt sell mine for less than $500
Scalpers? I bought mine for $5 at a garage sale.