2600 heavy sixer

[dykesr]

How many of you out there have a 2600 heavy sixer or light sixer? Lets see some pics.

[Mindfield]

I have a number of 'em. CIB Sears heavy sixer, boxed Sears light sixer, and a loose Atari light sixer, along with a Sears Video Arcade II and a couple of Coleco Geminis (one CIB).

[Whisper]

My precious

(PAL, light sixer, orange letters, CX 2600 U from Hong Kong, serial: 548414011)

 

 

[Stingray]

My Sears Telegames Heavy Sixer:

 

 

-S

[Brad2600]

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...ght=heavy+sixer

 

For more pictures of heavy sixers.

[hattg]

Question. How do you know if a unit is a "Heavy sixer"? I hear the term all the time and am not really sure. Maybe I passed up a good lot this weekend at the swap meet then. There were two 6 switch units, all controls and ps, about 35 games, some decent, booklets for most and the guy wanted $50 for it. Figured I have enough 2600 stuff anyway and didn't want anymore. Actually will probably be trying to get rid of most of it sometime in the future.

[Mindfield]

Question. How do you know if a unit is a "Heavy sixer"? I hear the term all the time and am not really sure. Maybe I passed up a good lot this weekend at the swap meet then. There were two 6 switch units' date=' all controls and ps, about 35 games, some decent, booklets for most and the guy wanted $50 for it. Figured I have enough 2600 stuff anyway and didn't want anymore. Actually will probably be trying to get rid of most of it sometime in the future.[/quote']

 

Heavy Sixers have very thick moulding on the sides and around the front woodgrain. Normal sixers and four switches have thin plastic moulding with a groove; heavy sixers are solid moulding about 1/2" thick. Also, the front is rounded at the sides where others are more angular. And finally, if you have both handy to compare, the heavy sixer, as its name suggests, is considerably heavier than all of the other models.

 

Heavy sixers originally shipped with first-year controllers and AC as well:

 

- The original "heavy sixer" or "first year" sticks have a spring loaded button. They originally had a small hexagonal plastic disk stuck in a recess at the top of each stick with either the Atari logo or "sears" printed on them (depending on which heavy sixer you have). These usually fell off after a while though, so it's rare to find one with the hex discs still affixed. If they're missing, there will be a small recess at the top of each stick. Later sticks were flat on top.

 

- The original first-year paddles had "Atari" or "Sears" printed at the bottom instead of "Paddle."

 

- The original first-year AC adapter was gray instead of the usual black.

[Draikar]

My sears and Atari I just love because they are "built with love" and that heave RF Shielding you can't miss when taking apart !