Atari 2600 System [Vader] | (LS) (Atari 2600)

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About This Console: Our Atari consoles come with everything that you need to set it up! One joystick controller, the console itself, RF cord, and the power cord. No games are inclu ded. This model is the "Darth Vader" Atari 2600, nicknamed such for it's all black design that resembled Darth Vader from the still-new first Star Wars movie. If you have ANY questions about the quality of this console, please give us a call or shoot us an email under the contact tab. We will be more than happy to shoot you some pictures! Some games may require different controllers such as the Paddle controllers, Keyboard controllers, Trak-Ball controllers, or Driving controllers. All other controllers are sold separately. About The Atari 2600:The Atari 2600 was made and produced originally in 1977 as the Atari VCS (Atari Video Computer System), and rebranded to Atari 2600 in November 1982. Atari was originally only an arcade company before switching over to the home market to sell their games in living rooms across America. With only 128 bytes of RAM, the cheaper MOS Technology 6507 CPU, and 16 entire colors on-screen, they sold an estimated 12 million VCS systems and 120 million cartridges. The Atari 2600 was not the first in the market, but it definitely helped shape the future of the entire video games industry. 472 games were officially released during this system's lifetime, and people still create brand new games for the system! Some sites say that there could be up to 900 games total including homebrew titles, but there are no official numbers. Atari themselves are also rereleasing old titles under their Atari 2600+ line, some of which are compatible with even the original systems. Even with all this success, the monster known as Atari soon toppled. Thanks to poor sales of their third-party game developers' rushed and terrible games, and an oversaturated market, people started not trusting Atari, and not wanting to gamble on a new game with their money. It got to the point where Atari sent 14 trucks full of unsold cartridges and hardware to a landfill in the New Mexico desert in late 1983, including the infamous E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Show more