As Activision’s F-14 Tomcat game for the Atari 2600 console, it seemed ripe for use as a project enclosure of some sort. When he came across a couple of 9-pin D-sub joystick ports, he had an idea.
Despite the hype, [Fry] faced an almost impossible task: translating Pac-Man’s detailed graphics and complex gameplay to the Atari’s limited 4 K cartridge with only 128 bytes of RAM.
That's because, while it is 80% smaller than the original, the forthcoming Atari 2600+ is no locked device running pre-installed, emulated games. It plays the exact same cartridges I coveted as a kid.
Thrift store shopping is already addicting, but when a video game cartridge worth $10,000 pops ... came across an ultra rare copy of the Atari 2600 game Air Raid in a donation bin and immediately ...
The 7800 Plus is able to play original cartridges (made for either the Atari 2600 or 7800) but is also compatible with new cartridges published by Atari. Regardless of when the game was originally ...