Atari 2600+
Atari’s time machine has passed it’s MOT and in full-swing as the old hit maker has again looked to the past to move into the future.
The latest move from the company, who only recently bought out Nightdive Studios and brought into Polymega, is to release the Atari 2600+.
It’s a new games machine from Atari that mimics the design of the outrageously popular original 2600, but this machine will play original cartridges from the 2600 and 7800, but be aware that 5200 games are not mentioned as working on the machine. Not only does the 2600+ play the old cartridges, but it does so through a HDMI output and allows for widescreen display. For those that don’t have a large collection of 2600 or 7800 cartridges, the 2600+ will come with a 10-in-1 games cartridge that will come with:
- Adventure
- Combat
- Dodge ‘Em
- Haunted House
- Maze Craze
- Missile Command
- Real Sports Volleyball
- Surround
- Video Pinball
- Yars’ Revenge
Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’ probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Playing through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection, and all the other mainline Final Fantasy games up 12 on the Switch.
