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	Atari 2600 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Atari then licensed the smash arcade hit Space Invaders by Taito, which greatly increased the unit's popularity when it was released in May 1980, doubling sales again to over 2 million units.
		Atari continued to scoop up licenses during the shelf life of the 2600, the most prominent of which included Pac-Man and E.T. Public disappointment with these two latter titles and the market saturation of bad third-party titles are cited as big reasons for the video game crash of 1983.
		Atari 2600 games were originally limited to a maximum size of 4 kilobytes, while a CD-ROM, still the most common medium on which modern games are sold, can hold about 650 megabytes, or 162,000 times as much.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atari_2600 (2088 words)

	Atari 2600 - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Atari then licensed the smash arcade hit Space Invaders by Taito, which greatlyincreased the unit's popularity when it was released in May 1980, doubling sales again toover 2 million units.
		Atari continued to scoop up licenses during the shelf life of the 2600, the most prominent of which included Pac-Man and E.T. Public disappointment with these two latter titles (and the market saturation of bad third-partytitles) is sometimes cited as a big reason for the video game crash of 1983.
		Atari 2600 games wereoriginally limited to a maximum size of 4 kilobytes, while a CD-ROM, still the most common medium on which modern games are sold, can hold about 650 megabytes, or 162,000times as much.
	www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=Atari_2600 (1890 words)

	Atari 2600 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was originally known as the Atari VCS, for V ideo C omputer S ystem, and the name "Atari 2600" was first used in 1982, after the release of the more advanced (Click link for more info and facts about Atari 5200) Atari 5200.
		The 2600 was typically bundled with two (A manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers) joystick (A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine) controllers and a cartridge game.
		The Atari 2600 continued to sell in the USA and Europe until 1989, and continued to sell in (A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities) PAL version in Asian nations until the early 1990s.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/At/Atari_2600.htm (2317 words)

	Atari 2600 - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Atari continued to scoop up licenses during the shelf life of the 2600, the most prominent of which included Pac-Man and E.T. Public disappointment with these latter two titles (and the market overload of bad third-party titles) is sometimes cited as a big reason for the video game crash of 1983.
		A new version of the 2600 was released in 1986 in a smaller, cost-reduced form factor with a modernized Atari 7800 -like appearance, along with a resurgence in software development both from Atari and from third parties.
		One example is the Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Game, manufactured by Jakks Pacific, which simulates, more or less accurately, the basic electronics of the 2600 console, and includes ROMs from 10 cartridges, into a single Atari-brand-look-a-like joystick with composite video outputs for connecting directly to modern televisions or VCRs.
	www.iridis.com /Atari_2600 (2037 words)

	Atari 7800 - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The 7800 was designed to replace the floundering Atari 5200, and to once and for all re-establish Atari's market supremacy against the Intellivision and Colecovision.
		With this system, Atari addressed all the shortcomings of the Atari 5200: it had simple, digital joysticks; it was backwards compatible with the Atari 2600; and it was affordable.
		The system was designed to be upgraded to a fully-fledged home computer—a keyboard was developed, and the system had an expansion port (derived from the Atari 8-bit line's SIO port) for the addition of peripherals like disk drives and printers.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=2781 (483 words)

	Encyclopedia: Atari 5200 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Screenshot E.T. (Atari 2600 version) The video game crash of 1983 refers to the sudden bankruptcy of a number of companies producing home computers and video game consoles in North America in late 1983.
		Screenshot Rescue on Fractalus on the Atari 5200 Rescue On Fractalus was a computer game title created by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts Entertainment), released in 1985 for the Atari 8-bit systems, such as the Atari 800 and the Atari 5200.
		The Atari Jaguar II was to be the successor to the Atari Jaguar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Atari-5200 (1042 words)

	Atari 2600 Details, Meaning Atari 2600 Article and Explanation Guide
		The Atari 2600, released in 1977, was the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridgess instead of having one or more games built in.
		During this period Atari continued to grow until it had one of the largest R&D; divisions in Silicon Valley.
		Atari continued to scoop up licenses during the shelf life of the 2600, the most prominent of which included Pac-Man and E.T.
	www.e-paranoids.com /a/at/atari_2600.html (2061 words)

	Atari 2600
		A new version of the 2600 was released in 1986 (although it was planned for release two years earlier) in a smaller, cost-reduced form factor with a modernized
		Atari 7800 -like appearance (this model is unofficially referred to as the 2600 Jr.), along with a resurgence in software development both from Atari and from third parties.
		Atari 2600 games were originally limited to a maximum size of 4 kilobytes, while a
	en.efactory.pl /Atari_VCS (2014 words)

	Classic Gaming - ATARI:2600/5200/7800/JAGUAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the Atari 2600, 1984 was a much more subdued year and the price of the system had now dropped to $40-$50.
		Atari decided that maybe it would be a good idea to release the 7800 units it had in storage, and produce some more 2600 games.
		If it wasn't for Atari being caught with its pants down so to speak when Coleco introduced the Colecovision, the Atari 5200 may have never have come out since Atari's primary focus was on the "Stella" Atari 2600 VCS system.
	forum.pcvsconsole.com /viewthread.php?tid=3753 (2533 words)

	Pac-Man information - Search.com
		The Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man was a commercial disaster.
		Atari Inc. bought the home video rights to the game, and it promoted the release of the Atari 2600 version of the game with an enormous marketing campaign.
		It is interesting to note that, despite its perceived inferiority, sound effects from the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man are possibly the sounds most often used as stock sound effects in films and television series to represent the sounds of a game being played in the background of a scene.
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	Atari 2600 - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nolan Bushnell eventually turned to Warner Communications, and sold the company to them in 1976 for $28 million on the promise that Stella would be productized as soon as possible.
		Instead they decided to have enough memory for only one line of the display at a time, when the TV completed drawing that line, the game was expected to quickly stuff the next line into the TIA while the TV was resetting for the next line.
		Interview with Joe Decuir (http://www.atarimuseum.com/articles/joedecuir.html) (One of the designers of the Atari 2600 and the Atari 400/800 SIO.
	www.free-definition.com /Atari-2600.html (2048 words)

	Atari 2600 Screenshot Gallery Definition / Atari 2600 Screenshot Gallery Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Atari 2600 Screenshot Gallery Definition / Atari 2600 Screenshot Gallery Research
		This page contains screenshots of the most important Atari 2600 The Atari 2600, released in 1977, was the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or further games built in.
		It was originally known as the Atari VCS, for Video Computer System, and the name "Atari 2600" was first used in 1982, after the release of the further advanced Atari 5200.
	www.elresearch.com /Atari_2600_Screenshot_Gallery (116 words)

	Atari 5200 - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The Atari 5200 was, in essence, an Atari 400 computer without a keyboard.
		The Atari 5200 also suffered from its initial cartridge incompatibility with the Atari 2600 (an adapter was later released).
		But the question of which system was superior became moot when the game market crashed in 1983-84, killing off both systems in their prime.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=2780 (273 words)

	Digital Press - Cat Trax
		Stefan Piasecki correctly observed that most of the screenshot errors involved the gates or tunnels in the sides of the maze, and that those gates could be opened or closed by selecting different game options.
		If these screenshots were just showing game option 4, with most of the side tunnels closed, it should have also said "OPT 4" on the screen.
		The program ROM image of the Atari version of "Cat Trax" was found inside a 128-in-1 pirate-made 2600 console.
	www.digitpress.com /DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=31835 (436 words)

	Atari 2600 - GameWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stella was still not ready for production, but it was clear that it needed to be before there were a number of "me too" products filling up the market andndash; which had happened after they invented PONG.
		The CPU of a typical PC for home use today is clocked at more than 1andnbsp;GHz, or roughly 1000 times the 1.19andnbsp;MHz clock rate of the 2600.
		Also, the Atari had no on board secondary storage, whereas such storage in the form of hard disk drives on today's systems will often have a capacity of 100andnbsp; GB or so.
	gamewiki.info /wiki/Atari_2600 (2976 words)

	atari 2600: Atari 2600 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the most popular home video game system of the early 1980's.
		Buy atari 2600 games and consoles, and view instructions and screenshots.
		new Flashback 2.0 is styled after an original Atari 2600 console, features 40 built-in games, is packaged with two Atari 2600 CX-40 style joysticks, and.
	www.dyerweb.net /atari-2600.html (212 words)

	Atari 2600 Console (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The original Atari 2600 is referred to as "The Heavy Sixer" due to its heavy weight and its...
		ATARI fun & games: Discover new heights in game-playing excitement on any ATA...
		It may not be Pulitzer Prize material but it's still pretty good at critiquing games for the old Atari 2600.
	atari.gamesabcs.info /atari-2600-console.html (522 words)

	Atari 5200 at AllExperts
		The Atari 5200 was a video game console introduced in 1982 by Atari as a replacement for the famous Atari 2600.
		The Atari 5200 also suffered from its software incompatibility with the Atari 2600, though an adapter was later released in 1983 allowing it to play all Atari 2600 games, using the more reliable controllers native to that system.
		Another problem was the lack of attention that Atari gave to the console; most of its resources went to the already over-saturated Atari 2600.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/at/atari_5200.htm (702 words)

	May 2006 - Kaedrin Weblog Archives
		Activision Patch Gallery: One of the things I've lamented about the Atari 2600 platform is the formulaic quality of many games: you basically manipulate a bunch of pixels on the screen to reach an arbitrary goal like 10,000 points.
		Without a doubt, the greatest game ever made for the Atari 2600 was Pitfall II: Lost Caverns.
		In any case, you gotta love the 2600, with it's awkward single-button controllers, faux wood panelling console, and huge library of games (yeah, most were clones of popular games like Pac Man, but so what?).
	kaedrin.com /weblog/archive/2006_05.html (6683 words)

	Siliconera » Atari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Atari is bringing over Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 for the PS2 on 11.07.06.
		Atari made a clever move when they decided to work with Shiny Entertainment on making a new Earthworm Jim game for the PSP.
		Atari announced that they have made an agreement with AQ Interactive to publish Bullet Witch outside of Japan.
	www.siliconera.com /index.php?category_name=developer/atari&paged=3 (1104 words)

	Emuboards -> GP32 emu Screenshot gallery
		Here is a basic gallery of screens of some of the emus on the GP32.
		Back to the 2600 the game i was thinking of is Starmaster, there's a poor clone by Atari themselves called Star Raiders which had a special keypad when you bought it but Starmaster is the daddy.
		This screenshot doesn't show much as there is nothing going on but you get the idea....
	www.emuboards.com /invision/index.php?showtopic=20991 (2008 words)

	Retrogaming Times Monthly 20
		The Atari 8-bit computers had two Frogger ports from Sierra: 1) the 1982 disk version by John Harris that's covered below, and 2) this cassette version that is watered down from that 1982 disk.
		Just like the Atari sierra disk, the “making it home” effect is not as good as some versions, but the adding up of bonus points is cool.
		There was also a shooting gallery where you took place in a shoot out with varmints through the windows of a saloon.
	my.stratos.net /~hewston95/RTM20/RTM20.html (12822 words)

	Atari 2600 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The CPU of a typical PC for home use today is clocked at more than 2.8 GHz, or roughly 2,352 times the 1.19 MHz clock rate of the 2600.
		Atari Ace (http://www.atariace.com/) - refurbisher of the Classic Systems de:Atari 2600
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	www.mygoinfo.com /index.php/Atari_2600 (2088 words)

	Atari 2600 - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Unlike prior generations of machines which used custom logic to play a small number of games, Stella was essentially a combination of a complete CPU, the famous MOS Technology 6502 in a cost-reduced version, known as the 6507.
		Atari suffered from an image problem when the Mystique company produced a number of pornographic games for the 2600.
		Atari Times, 2600 - Covering the Atari 2600!
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Atari_2600 (2067 words)

	Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame NEWS ARCHIVE
		Atari Flashback is a smaller replica of the original Atari 7800 system and comes with two joystick controllers, power supply and a TV cable.
		The Atari name is the most storied in video gaming, dating back to the early 1970s when Nolan Bushnell and a team of engineers at Atari created "Pong," the arcade video game that was so popular that machines sometimes jammed because they were overflowing with quarters.
		Steve Woita, the Atari 2600 designer and programmer of Quadrun, Taz as well as many other great games and hardware for Apple, Tengen, Sega, Nintendo, 3DO and Sony, has just released his newest game for the PC computer.
	www.gooddealgames.com /News_old.html (7307 words)

	ST Report: 20-Sep-96 #1238
		From the Atari Editor's Desk "Saying it like it is!" Well, as of today, I can notch another year onto my belt and say that I'm still not as old as Ralph Mariano; but, I am catching up to him...slowly.
		But, it does appear that Atari is still managing to find a way to create controversy and heartaches, even from the proverbial "grave".
		At this moment the only computer in my house is an Atari 1040stf upgraded to 4meg with a 30 meg hard drive.
	www.atarimax.com /freenet/freenet_material/6.16and32-BitComputersSupportArea/8.OnlineMagazines/showarticle.php?602 (14658 words)

	paul_slocum_yrs_rvng
		There is a growing demand for 2600 homebrew music so it would be great to have more 2600 music programmers.
		And 2600 music programming can be a bit difficult, so I've written a new 2600 sound and music programmer's guide which covers almost everything I know about 2600 sound and music and includes three useful sets of in-tune notes to help overcome the 2600's very limited pitch.
		Half of the drums and the background bleeps are a 2600 sequence.
	qotile.net /sequencer.html (531 words)

	UGO Superman Hub - Superman Games: Superman: Atari 2600 - SUPERMAN.UGO.COM
		If it doesn't quite rank with the greatest 2600 games (Warlords, anyone?), Superman still strikes a nostalgic chord or two.
		The Man of Steel's first foray into the video game world may have been somewhat inauspicious, but at least it showed our collective imaginations were all fantasizing along the same lines.
		Some of the content presented on UGO's Superman Hub has been provided by fans, other unofficial websites or online news sources, and is the sole responsibility of the source from which it was obtained.
	superman.ugo.com /games/superman_atari/default.asp (749 words)

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