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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2007-10-01 08:12 pm

Time for Tank Pong

The Atari Video Computer System 2600 turns 30.

(A commenter some way down the thread points out that the model pictured is not the original 6-switch case.)

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
no way dude the one with the biplanes and the machine guns and the two circular clouds was the best

speak up sonny

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Or, to put it another way, next year we will be as far from the 2600 as the 2600 was from ENIAC.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
I am amused by your use of the word "circular" here.

Tanky! Tanky!

[identity profile] timchuma.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Degree of difficulty 9.8 (unless you remember that particular post.)