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Atari 2600 trouble...

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:03 pm
by Milo
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.

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:05 pm
by Double-S-
<A HREF="http://search.ebay.com/atari-2600-power ... 40QQsojsZ1" target="_blank">eBay to the rescue</A>!

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:25 pm
by Zeta
Step 1:

Insert penis into console.

Step 2:

Insert finger into light socket.

Step 3:

Enjoy your game.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 6:21 am
by smiths32
So, has anyone here ever played the E.T game for the Atari 2600? I mean, how bad is it?

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 7:48 am
by Kishi
"<a href="http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3124081">If you like falling into pits, you'll love E.T.!</a>"

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:35 am
by Segaholic2
I've got a copy of it sitting in my room. Never bothered to play it, though.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:52 am
by j-man
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.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:55 am
by Omni Hunter
Haha, good joke J. Mind you, a guitar powered computer isn't a bad idea.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:57 am
by Kishi
One day music will be our main fuel source, and flowers will be our currency.

Take a shower, hippie.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 11:47 am
by Green Gibbon!
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.)

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 11:52 am
by Kishi
Then someone put a building on top of it, and a pixelized E.T. haunts it to this day.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 1:15 pm
by Brazillian Cara
I also heard the game is jinxed. Something about summoning demons or whatever.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 2:02 pm
by Baba O'Reily
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.
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Wuss.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 3:46 pm
by smiths32
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.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 4:05 pm
by Spazz
<i>Phhht</i>...please..
<img src="upload/files/hardchor.jpg">

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 4:45 pm
by -wyvern
Spazz wins.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:11 pm
by Baba O'Reily
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.

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 4:13 am
by j-man
...and you just killed the beautiful simplicity of the joke.

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 4:37 am
by Omni Hunter
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.

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 5:24 am
by Baba O'Reily
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.

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 8:10 pm
by Milo
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.

Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 9:02 pm
by Brazillian Cara
And your kitty is pretty.