Atari Breakout

This is probably not News to some of you, but I just found out by typing 'Atari Breakout' in Google Image search, it will let you play a quick game in your browser, where you’ll have to destroy blocks made of actual images.

If you like those games try this! - Atari Arcade

Asteroids, Breakout, Missile Command...all the Atari classics for free!

Lutherf said:

If you like those games try this! - Atari Arcade

Asteroids, Breakout, Missile Command...all the Atari classics for free!

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I had those games in a DOS platform for years, but I thought the Google thing was interesting, like when Microsoft had the Easter Eggs of past.

grip said:

I had those games in a DOS platform for years, but I thought the Google thing was interesting, like when Microsoft had the Easter Eggs of past.

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Yeah. It looks like it picks random image categories for the blocks. Kind of neat!

Lutherf said:

Yeah. It looks like it picks random image categories for the blocks. Kind of neat!

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I wonder how many different browsers it works in?

Lutherf said:

If you like those games try this! - Atari Arcade

Asteroids, Breakout, Missile Command...all the Atari classics for free!

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Centipede!

A few months ago, my wife and I wee in a Walgreen's, when our attention was caught by an interesting product—a modern clone of the original Atari 2600 video game system. My wife has very fond memories of having a 2600 when she was a child, and of the games she used to play on it. Me, not so much, but I was intrigued by the concept of so modern an imitation of so ancient a device. We agreed that if the price was anything up to about $20 or so, we'd probably buy it. Alas, when we asked the price, it was $50. Perhaps we'd still buy it some day, but we needed to be at a point where we could more easily feel like we could spend $50 on something we didn't really need.

Later that night, though, I found one on Amazon, used, for about $20, so I ordered it.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F676U2O/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Flashback

If you're nostalgic for the old 1970s-vintage home video games, then this is something you'd appreciate. I would warn, however, that the included wireless joysticks have some serious responsiveness issues. Also, some of the games are not really playable with joysticks, and really need the paddle controllers, which are not included with this unit. This unit will accept wired joysticks and paddle controllers that are compatible with the original 2600, and I very strongly recommend that if you buy this unit, that you buy at least two wired 2600-compatible joysticks, and at least one set of paddle controllers.

actually i think my inlaws still have the original 2600 also known as the (woody) in working condition. complete with joysticks and paddles.
probably have to go to radio shack and get a converter or something for an rca connection.

ludin said:

actually i think my inlaws still have the original 2600 also known as the (woody) in working condition. complete with joysticks and paddles.
probably have to go to radio shack and get a converter or something for an rca connection.

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I would guess that an original Atari 2600 probably has the output in the form of a standard analog TV VHF signal, switchable between channels 3 or 4. That was the usual, back in that day, for devices that were meant to output directly to a TV. I think that even though the VHF band for broadcast of analog TV has been discontinued, most modern TVs probably still support it. At most, you might need an impedance-matching transformer to match the 300Ω output that the 2600 probably has to the 75Ω input that any modern TV would have.

Bob Blaylock said:

I would guess that an original Atari 2600 probably has the output in the form of a standard analog TV VHF signal, switchable between channels 3 or 4. That was the usual, back in that day, for devices that were meant to output directly to a TV. I think that even though the VHF band for broadcast of analog TV has been discontinued, most modern TVs probably still support it. At most, you might need an impedance-matching transformer to match the 300Ω output that the 2600 probably has to the 75Ω input that any modern TV would have.

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correct it had a standard analog vhf connection switch. most TV's do not have that anymore so you would need a converter to rca.
you could do the impedance matching but there aren't even any vhf hook up's on tv's anymore.