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No offense or anything, but that's like riding a bike instead of driving a car because with a car you'll have to pay an insurance company to drive it, get a license from the state... all of which can be taken away depending on what you do in the car. I mean, yea with a bike you avoid all that ... but I mean... at the end of the day you're riding a freakin' bike. The 2600 is good for what it is, and it's great memories, but I'd hardly say it could hold my interest for very long and satisfy my gaming needs like a more modern system can. No, its more like driving a nice safe FORD that's nothing fancy but has been reliable for years and gets you from A to B in comfort and safety vs. that nice shiny new Toyota that will send you careening to your death into a brick wall. Hey dont talk bad about toyota. That puts food on my table, and those congressional hearings were unessary and stupid.

So that's not a good thing? Ive had games do this before but not after a roll over. I would just turn the unit off and clean the carts and the problem seemed to resolve it's self. You dont think it could be the console going bad do you?

So I decided that I wanted to break my hand(roll over the score in asteroids). I made it to 99,999 and it started all over again. But the weird thing is that it switch from a color picture to black and white and there was a lot of static interferance on screen, I made it another 34,660 points before one of those stupid little ufo's got me. Is this normal, I'm asking because ive never rolled over the score on a atari before. I'm definatly tracking down a sega genesis controller though. I have a blister in my palm and my wrist is screaming!

Now that's a sweet looking videogame console! Perfect for travel. I think I need me one of those!

I dont know. I bought my Polaroid two years ago. It's a 15.4 inch HD widescreen lCD tv, model number TLA-0511C. I beleve that they had alot of problems with them, display would go out, some of the imputs would malfunction. I dont think they make them any more. Frankly I dont see any Polaroid tv's anymore ether. lucky I have never had any problems with mine. I'd be pissed if it brooke after two years. For $230 I better get my money's worth! My four switch is unmodded and played through the antenna with one of those rca to coax push on connectors. small, good picture and cheap.

Try switching your tv from analog to air. Thats what I had to do with my 15inch polaroid flatscreen HDtv. I know that It may not make sense and it may not work but hey it doesnt hurt to try.

I personally like the one that I created. I think that this would be alsome if someone could program this for the 2600. I would buy a copy and my nintendo would never see the light of day again!

I'm sorry those shirts are horrible, they need removed right away! I second that!

Also a while back I replaced my rf cord with a old cheap dvd player one. My atari is a four switch so to make it fit into the jack I had to trim of some excess plastic on the end of the cord and shorten the center prong. Is there a better way to go about this? Im kind of afraid that I might damage the board or casing because I had to put a lot of pressure on it to screw it back together tight. The case also has some play on the right side and there is a slight bump that I can feel inthe middle where the cord plugs into the jack. My old cord was starting to make color turn into black and white and there was a lot of static interferance and flickering. Picture quality is much better now but im afraid that I might break something.

Frogger looks ok as a screensaver but I really like Defender my self. I love the ship flying around and the aliens trying to shoot it. I doesnt look the best but definitely not the worst, and it keeps changing colors which hopefully wont burn a image into your tv.

I love it with my ps3, but I just does not look right for my atari. My NES looks ok, but it still looks better on a CRT too. The blacks do not bother my as bad as the other colors like reds, blues, yellows, greens and browns.

Did you check to make sure that the cable is installed correctly inside the atari?

All I have is my dad's old four switch woody. but I think omegamatrix is correct I think it is a PAL version. although it is not labeled that and I thought all PAL atari games were labeled PAL or would have a big P on the label.

I have a copy of StarMaster that looks good and plays fine exept it acts like there is no vertical hold. The picture keeps scrolling. Ive cleaned the contacts and this is the only game that has this problem, is there a possablity this is a pal version.

Seems a little redudant to me. I kind of takes away from the classic feel of the games. And I could not possibly think of doing anything to the case on my Atari. That and my dad says that I'm still borrowing it from him.

Hi new to the forum but this looked like the top notch place for all things atari. I have my dad's old four switch woody hooked up to my 15inch polaroid LCD HD tv and love it. For grins and giggles I hooked it up to a slightly smaller old CRT tv. I was amazed to find that the color looked so much better! The hues are amazing, but objects are not as sharp and there is more screen flickering. On my polaroid it is much more sharp and sreen flicker is reduced but the colors are all washed out. Is there a way to improve this? Ive tried fiddleing with my tv's settings but nothing seems to change. I guess Atari's just need to be played on a older set.