Atari 2600 trouble...

Milo · Post by **Milo** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:03 pm

My step dad recently brought home his old Atari 2600 console. Trouble it, the power chord he brought with it isn't compatible with the console.

http://www.sepwich.com/milo/S3010302.JPG

I know the picture is a bit blurry, but maybe it'll help. I need to know what kind of power chord is compatible with the system. The socket is a small, silver hole with no prong in the middle like most sockets.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:05 pm

<A HREF="http://search.ebay.com/atari-2600-power ... 40QQsojsZ1" target="_blank">eBay to the rescue</A>!

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:25 pm

Step 1:

Insert penis into console.

Step 2:

Insert finger into light socket.

Step 3:

Enjoy your game.

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:21 am

So, has anyone here ever played the E.T game for the Atari 2600? I mean, how bad is it?

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:48 am

"<a href="http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3124081">If you like falling into pits, you'll love E.T.!</a>"

Post by **Segaholic2** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:35 am

I've got a copy of it sitting in my room. Never bothered to play it, though.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:52 am

My step dad recently brought home his old Atari 2600 console. Trouble it, the power chord he brought with it isn't compatible with the console.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:55 am

Haha, good joke J. Mind you, a guitar powered computer isn't a bad idea.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:57 am

One day music will be our main fuel source, and flowers will be our currency.

Take a shower, hippie.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:47 am

http://www.atariage.com/software_page.h ... abelID=157

Download the rom and discover. As bad as E.T. is, it doesn't especially stand out from the other droves of awful 2600 games. It only gets special attention because of the desert burial thing. (They didn't just simply bury the things, either: they crushed them to pieces, buried them, then covered the lot with a slab of concrete.)

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:52 am

Then someone put a building on top of it, and a pixelized E.T. haunts it to this day.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:15 pm

I also heard the game is jinxed. Something about summoning demons or whatever.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Wed May 11, 2005 2:02 pm

j-man wrote:
My step dad recently brought home his old Atari 2600 console. Trouble it, the power chord he brought with it isn't compatible with the console.

Wuss.

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Wed May 11, 2005 3:46 pm

Well if that was a whole lot of trollop: I can't even stretch ET's neck. I can just imagine confused children trying to figure out what to do while parents get angry on how they spent 40 bucks on something unfaithul to the movie. Of course I can think of other games I'd rather have buried in a desert but then again it was a matter of overconfidence that ruined ET.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:05 pm

<i>Phhht</i>...please..
<img src="upload/files/hardchor.jpg">

-wyvern · Post by **-wyvern** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:45 pm

Spazz wins.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:11 pm

You ARE aware I was referring to the chord in purely musical terms, right?
A5 is fairly boring and overdone, but a B7sus4... Now that has potential.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:13 am

...and you just killed the beautiful simplicity of the joke.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:37 am

Some people... Mind you, I still have to convince my old man that there is such a thing as a Hemidemisemiquaver. I guess you US guys call it a 64th.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:24 am

j-man wrote:...and you just killed the beautiful simplicity of the joke.

We all have to burn something.

Omni Hunter wrote:Some people... Mind you, I still have to convince my old man that there is such a thing as a Hemidemisemiquaver. I guess you US guys call it a 64th.

They do exist, and wankers throw them in to seem fast.

Milo · Post by **Milo** » Sun May 15, 2005 8:10 pm

Double-S- wrote:<A HREF="http://search.ebay.com/atari-2600-power ... 40QQsojsZ1" target="_blank">eBay to the rescue</A>!

sw33t. Thanks.

XD @ guitar jokes.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:02 pm

And your kitty is pretty.