I'm pleased to report that the 2600 I talked about a few days ago is up and running! A cheap power lead and RF cable from eBay — plus a game of course — got the old boy fired up and, after a quick dust of the cartridge slot, working perfectly.
Here he is in his new pride of place, just behind the Atari XE:
And here's the game I got for testing purposes: Imagic's Cosmic Ark. I'd never played this before so I figured start my collection as I mean to go on: with something weird!
Cosmic Ark is kind of sort of the sequel to Atlantis, which is a game I liked a lot back on the Atari 8-bit. Mechanically it's a pretty simple game, but it's very addictive.
I'm actually quite impressed with the quality of the video signal from the 2600. Obviously it's no RGB SCART, but for an RF connection it's perfectly respectable — and considerably better than the very noisy signal I get from the Philips G7000/Odyssey 2.
Well, time to get collecting, I guess!
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