Atari 2600
Woodgrain gaming system
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console released in 1977, widely credited with popularizing cartridge-based gaming and bringing arcade-style play into living rooms.
Its blocky graphics and simple joystick controller defined early home gaming: I spent hours playing Pitfall on my Atari 2600.
The name often evokes nostalgia for the dawn of the video game era.
- joystickTilting lever for control
- Pac-ManDot-consuming arcade icon
- cartridgeSealed container for supplies
- pixelsDisplay's smallest points
- 8-bitVintage computing standard
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- 1980 highlightsPac-Man, Empire Strikes Back, Mount St. Helens, Moscow Olympics, Iran hostage crisis
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