Images of Atari 2600 players WAY back in the day

#1 jdrose OFFLINE

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Posted Fri Jan 6, 2012 6:42 PM

Very cool.

http://www.flickr.co...ah77/2549473027

http://www.flickr.co...meg8/4195480646

http://www.flickr.co...rbug/2386294592

http://www.flickr.co...bustr/130977012

Computer:
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#2 Ransom OFFLINE

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Posted Fri Jan 6, 2012 7:08 PM

That was one happy little girl with her 600XL. I don't blame her.

Too bad her brother ruined it.

#3 Frostbite Bailey OFFLINE

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Posted Sat Jan 7, 2012 8:00 AM

She should have shoved a penny in her brothers hole :twisted:

#4 opeygon OFFLINE

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Posted Sat Jan 7, 2012 8:03 AM

Thanks jdrose! I love seeing this kind of stuff. My fav is the guy with the betamax and heavy sixer. It just doesn't get any more retro than that. Now I might have to start diggind around for some of my old photos from the '80s.

#5 Mark T OFFLINE

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Posted Mon Jan 9, 2012 12:13 PM

Nice! Thanks for sharing! :thumbsup:

#6 Skylark68 OFFLINE

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Posted Mon Jan 9, 2012 1:26 PM

So who didn't have (or knew who had) a couch (see last 2600 photo) like that? I know that at least 2 of my uncles had the exact same couch. We had one similar but with a different plaid pattern. I remember it sat real low to the ground (your knees were always up a little from the rest of your body).

The guy on the right in the first picture is wearing the ultimate in interior camoflague at least for that house.

Edited by Skylark68, Mon Jan 9, 2012 1:28 PM.

#7 random7100 OFFLINE

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Posted Mon Jan 9, 2012 5:33 PM

Great pics

#8 lushgirl_80 OFFLINE

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currently playing Demon Attack on Atari 2600
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Posted Mon Jan 9, 2012 7:49 PM

I'm on the lookout for a working vintage Betamax player just like the one that guy has on top of his tv in that one pic.

Anyways such awesome pics.I remember getting a Texas Instruments TI-99 4A on my birthday in 1984. That was soo rad. Wonder what game Bob and Ernie are playing...I bet that's Combat.

#9 moycon OFFLINE

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Posted Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:38 AM

A picture of me and my first Atari. It was one of the consoles that had the built in games breakout and pinball.

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#10 Keatah OFFLINE

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Posted Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:42 AM

I love the ground-in dirt in that shag carpet! Cool..

#11 Syntaxerror999 OFFLINE

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Posted Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:38 AM

Photo 1 - "This photo was taken in a small south american country three weeks ago"
Photo 2 - "Wood panel TV...CHECK....wood panel Betamax...CHECK....Wood pannel atari...."
Photo 3 - "WANTED! For Breaking out of Jail. Theft of an Atari."
Photo 4 - "But it's MY TURN! MOOOOM!"
Photo 5 - "Remember those Atari adds that talked about all the stuff they could do the Nintendo couldn't? Sally's parents do."