I didn’t realize that there was a thriving demo scene for the Atari 2600 as well. The music in this one is downright impressive.
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Harmony Cartridge for the Atari 2600 is up for pre-order. Some features for you to drool over:
The board fits into a standard Atari shell (with slots dremeled out for the SD card and USB of course).
Features: Plays all legacy 2600 games up to 32k. USB programmable, SD card slot: FAT12/16/32 compatible, supports SD and SDHC, menu: supports directories, no limit on number of files, auto-detection of bankswitch type. Windows/Mac/Linux programming software. There is much more, but that’s the gist of it.
Cloudscout played a couple of Atari 2600 games he’d never played last Saturday. The first was Jr. Pac-Man. The second? Medieval Mayhem. We played two full rounds which requires one person to win five games. I took the first set pretty quickly. The second set was not as easily won–but Sparby (coming from behind) took honors and beat us all:
Below are the links to an old PBS business program, showcasing Imagic when they were just getting off the ground. I little slice of life of the video game industry, just before the mid-80s video game crash. You get a sense that this frenzy over video games in the early 80s was very similar to the dot com boom and bust.
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