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Please tell me you've at least seen or played an Atari system... Mybe your aunt or uncle dusted one off and showed you how we used to do it back inna day...
... we don't teach the yutes nothin... my generation has failed y'all.
Atari is a company founded by Nolan Bushnell back in the early 70's (After selling his interest in Atari to Warner, he would go on to found Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre). His first product was the arcade game Pong. He went on to produce a home console version of Pong and eventually the Atari Video Computer System, or Atari VCS for short.
The original Atari VCS console had 6 switches on the front panel. This is the version my family got in '79. Later, Atari would change the console slightly and re-launch it as the Atari 2600.
^^^ This is the version most people owned, however in '82 they dropped the woodgrain panel in the front and went all black. My lil brother got one like this for xmas in '82. The two difficulty switches were moved from the front pane to the rear next to the joystick ports.
When people say "Atari", this is universally what people think about. Atari actually made 4 more game consoles after this one (Atari 5200, 7800, XE Game System, and the Jaguar), and even redesigned and re-launched the 2600 again when trying to compete against the NES and Sega Master System:
^^^ Almost no one owned this one.
As it relates to
@DOS_patos 's post and my reply: Atari and Sears did an OEM deal in the 70's that allowed Atari to build Sears-branded machines that were identical to the Atari stuff that Sears could then sell in their stores as their own consoles. In the 70's this was kind of a big ass deal because Sears was still a hugely popular retail chain and quite respectable at that. The Tele-Games console Dos has at the crib is the Sears variation of the Atari VCS/2600.
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