The Atari Pong, the first consumer product of the legendary company and a huge hit during the holiday season of 1975, is a beautiful vintage console, that will shockingly let you play Pong on your very own TV! Imagine that. You can find out more about it here and here and try to grab a complete boxed version of the thing via this Vintage Atari Pong System auction. Seller ships only within the US.
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I can't stress this point enough: Pong is THE multiplayer game, period. I played it with my friends about six months ago and it was one of the best after-dinner activity we could get.
ReplyDeleteHasn't aged a day, has it?
ReplyDeleteHey I almost put a bid in othat thing myseple of days ago. It doesn't get much more classic than Pong. I still have my Super Pong - but alas the box and manual are LONG gone. Yes, still a fun play for 2 people. I had a similar after-dinner experience with some friends a few months back playing Video Olympics on the Atari 2600 - still great fun. Those games are worthless these days for solo action but still good fun for 2 or more.
ReplyDeletewow - I really screwed up that first sentence. But hopefully the gist of it came across...
ReplyDeleteIs the Super Pong the one that makes a pretty rainbow pattern across your screen? I need one of those.
ReplyDeleteWhile we are on the topic of Atari, I just won a auction for a small lot of random games on ebay italy. I just wanted the Gamate game that was included, but this 2600 multicart looks interesting as well. Anyone know anything about it? Here's a pic:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/ionmyke/atari.jpg
Thanks!
Hopefully I will be able to find a list of dip switch setting for it. If not, I suppose it can still offer some random fun. Might even be worth a few bucks?
ReplyDeleteYeah, the floating boxes rainbow pattern appeared on Super Pong when you booted up or somebody won. Kinda trippy. We had ours hooked up to a black and white TV though so I never even knew they were colored until I saw it on YouTube many many years later. To me it was just a big bunch of floating white squares.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen that multicart before - interesting find though. I've never owned any of the dipswitch multicarts.
Nice, thanks! I don't own any pong machines yet, but when I do, it might as well be a trippy one, it can hang out with the Atari Video Music.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen that cart either, and random googling didn't bring much up. mMybe it's an italian thing. I'm pretty sure the seller didn't know much about it, judging by this (badly) translated description:
"Lottery 5 several cartridges videogiochi for Consul Gamate/Atari/Intellivision. In the lottery there are 2 cartridges fine-I probably play for Atari 2600. Working and in good aesthetic conditions."
Fun!
also, speaking of trippy, hows the artwork on that boxing cart!
ReplyDeletePsychedelic! Bushnell probably cooked that one up himself on a hot-tub acid trip.
ReplyDeleteChances are good. Actually now that I look at it, that's one of those weird bootleg carts, but I think that actually is Atari artwork. Add to that the mystery Intellivision cart, and toss in some 8-bit Jungle Hunt for good measure, and you have one of the weirder game lots I've purchased.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, sorry for veering off topic yet again.
Maybe the mystery cart is Pong!
Myke, I can traslate that thing for you if you paste here the original text :) Btw, nice find, that multicart seems interesting!
ReplyDeleteNice! Such a helpful bunch. I don't think there is anything too useful in there, but here you go:
ReplyDeleteLotto 5 cartuccie videogiochi vari per Console Gamate / Atari / Intellivision.
Nel lotto ci sono 2 cartuccie multi-gioco probabilmente per Atari 2600.
Funzionanti ed in buone condizioni estetiche.
Spese di spedizione raccomandata per l'Italia: 5 euro.
I metodi di pagamento accettati sono elencati in fondo alla pagina."
Thanks Mik!
(sits back, has a drink and enjoys the brilliant conversation while playing emulated 2600 classics on a DS)
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome :) Here it goes:
ReplyDelete"Lot of 5 videogames cartridges for Gamate/Atari/Intellivision. The lot contains 2 multi-game cartridges, probably for Atari 2600.
Working and in good shape.
Shipping costs for Italy: 5€
Allowed payment methods are listed on bottom of this page"
If you need some other translations from italian, feel free to ask :)
(gnome, great choice)
(thanks; I still prefer the Lynx though)
ReplyDeleteThanks Mik! That is interesting. 2 multicarts? I only see the one. Hmm.
ReplyDeletesorry to do the off-topic thing one more time, but I saw a couple of my Atari boxed games last night and realized that the trippy rainbow effect on the boxers on that Atari cart was because it was an old Activision game and Activision put that action rainbow thing on a LOT of their box art. They even incorporated it into their actual logo for a while there. I just happen to see River Raid and Chopper Command on the shelf with their similar rainbows and thought - oh yeah OK. Is this officially the most times the word rainbow has appeared in a post yet?
ReplyDeleteHaha.. I noticed the same thing, trippy rainbow tracers coming off of helicopters and stuff. Those must have been some magical days. I'm assuming it's a bootleg of the Activision boxing, it's in one of those Taiwanese carts they call "V cases", found some other ones here: http://www.atariage.com/label_page.html?LabelID=108. I'm still trying to figure out the mystery of the alleged second multicart, I guess I will just have to wait till I get my hands on em, I shall post my findings.
ReplyDeleteMyke, I think the two multi carts are the left ones (the one without label, and the one with those weird switches). And I remember that trippy rainbow coming out from Harry Pitfall's back :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Mik. I assume you are correct, but from the looks of it, the one without the label is an Intellivision cart. That would be fine by me, but I've never heard of such a thing... but then again, the foreign bootleg scene is far from my area of expertise. Hopefully mail from Italy to Hawaii doesn't take too long!
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