Thread 716176428

End times be upon you

>>716176428 (OP)
How many people have an Atari 2600 that still works? Like 0.001% of the population?

>>716176574
35 million sold

>>716176674
In the 70s

>>716176574
They should still all work unless they were abused with a hammer

>>716176574
I wouldn't be surprised if a good amount of actual boomers have hung on to their consoles due to nostalgia. I am also sure those consoles still will work in the future while shit like the Xboxes will have nowhere near the same shelf life.

>>716176574
It's not on the 2600, it's on the 7800, OP is just a retard.

>>716176574
Atari has been re-releasing their older consoles that work with the old carts

>>716177167
Boomer here, can confirm. I still have mine and my C64. The C64 is fun to mess around with to this day, but 98% of the 2600 library is utter shit so that just collects dust. It was honestly never good and coasted entirely on novelty factor.

>>716176574
Atari has the 2600+ and 7800+ these days, they're HDMI systems that take actual 2600/7800 carts (the 2600+ does also support 7800 games), including official repro carts and homebrew game carts.

>>716178368
Holy shit I didn't know that

>>716176574
Atari is still actively selling both the 2600 and 7800. Yes you read that correctly.

https://atari.com/collections/7800

Bubsy (who is now owned by Atari) is still alive and well for a reason you know.