To give you a little backstory into my history with Atari, whenever my brother and I would go over to our grandparent’s house for the holidays, the adults would congregate in a side room to catch up and bullshit while us kids were left on the sidelines. Not being content with just “sitting there,” we would venture off into other parts of the house. It was through these expeditions that we discovered the Atari 2600 hooked up to a TV in a forgotten part of the house, which also housed an ancient player piano. While some of the cousins were content with loading up the piano with yellowing scrolls that would crank out old-timey tunes, the others would gather around the Atari 2600 for a rousing game of Donkey Kong, Empire Strikes Back, Frogger, Warlords or Adventure. My question: what damn kid would say “no” to THIS?!
My family is pretty much split down the middle when it comes to interest in video games, and it became very clear after a few family gatherings as to who were the gamers and who weren’t. A couple of my cousins in particular would become extremely vexed if anyone happened to beat their high scores, which was typically done by my clowny hands! Even the so-called shoddy port of Pac-Man was a personal favorite of ours and I was one of the first to discover the infamous “cheat” of going through the warp holes to slow down ghosts and get a higher score.Īs time wore on, my grandparents wound up selling their Atari 2600 (which happened to be a Sears Video Arcade II) and all of its games, much to our dismay. To address this issue, they promptly replaced it with an NES and a small library of games, which included Burger Time and Final Fantasy.
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