With ion zones and evil drones, there's nothing else like Yar's Revenge, the way out space game that's new from Atari. Who else?

I have a 2600, however I have not played it today. Perhaps I should?

Yar's Revenge absolutely ruled.

I'll tell you what, though, for instant fun it's still hard to beat the Atari 2600. I used to run a skate park. We had an SNES and an Atari 2600 hooked up to the TV, and the Atari was FAR more popular than the SNES. You just turned it on, and BAM, adrenaline rush. Yar's Revenge, Defender, Seaquest, all those games are still fun to play with a group of people.

I got the 7800... all the fun and features of the 2600 + nearly 100% perfect arcade ports of games like Ms Pac Man, Galaga, Joust, etc.

What a marvelous commercial. Is it wrong that I was checking out the mom? She's probably 107 years old now.

Oh... and Yar's Revenge was a lot of fun.

As a matter of fact I did play Atari today, and yesterday too. I didn't play my Yars cart, but I did play several versions of Donkey Kong. I love my Atari consoles/computers. I have every version of Donkey Kong and all the consoles and computers it was ported to. Yesterday I played the 7800 version and today I played the Atari 8Bit version on my Atari 800 as well as the 2600 version which has a special nostalgia for me even though it is the worst port, even worse than the Intellivision version.

The two kids are probably the same age as you.

My understanding is that around this time in 1979, the Atari 8bit computers hit the market.  It is a shame the Atari 8bits lost the home computer war.   That was fanboy days for me, where I defending the Atari 8bit against the forces of evil, the Commodore 64.  I did eventually jump ship. out of choice.  Still remember trying to run Pacman with 8K memory on the Atari 400 and it be a disaster (cart didn't break but still).  I remember using the membrane keyboard and typing in code.  Spend hours enterting in data from ANALOG Magazine so I could play ripoffs of arcade games.  Ahh, those were the days.

Anyone remember the Atari Program Exchange (APEX) catalog?  It was like the XBox Live Arcade Indie channel offline.  The dreams and wishes I had.  CAVERNS OF MARS!

wait a second,you mean you have a thread that's not political. I'm confused.

I loved Atari Games in the Arcades of the 80s, Marble Madness, APB, Toobin, Gauntlet, Paperboy etc