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And guys, it's not just nostalgia.
I really wanted to share this with as many people who love retro gaming as possbible, especially since at the time of this posting it's still summer here.
I feel there's something very special about playing Atari 2600 on a hot summer night, you're all hazy from the summer heat and these games just hit different then, it's like you're tripping on life and experiencing something surreal and amazing from just the season itself being right for those games. The Atari 2600 and its games just feel amazingly surreal in general, but when it's summer and it's nighttime that feeling is even more amplified in my experience.
So to illustrate just what made Atari 2600 so unique and strange I put together a video on the subject while it's still summer, no I don't make money off of this, we talked about this in my main topic about the channel in the submissions forum. I genuinely just want to share this amazing feeling with other fans of the system so don't see this as self promotion or anything, just a way for me to share and give to this community as well as over at AtariAge where I feel people would "get it" too.
It's definitely not just nostalgia when I found the Atari 2600 downright fascinating as a kid too even tho at the time I was already very familiar with far more advanced arcade games and such, we're talking back in the 80's and that feeling stuck with me to this day.
Atari 2600 always felt alien, surreal. I mean the Commodore 64 did too but that's a different topic since that gives off similar but different vibes. The beauty about these early systems they all had their own, unique vibe to them due to the hardware limitations and that's what made them so unforgettable and fascinating.
It's not just the games tho, if you guys had bootleg games where you live, like we did here in my country you know just how amazingly weird those cards could get
they had seemingly infinite games on them and the games that often came on these carts would sometimes be distorted or weird versions of other original or single cart versions
There is so much about the Atari 2600 that just feels so unreal somehow
I really wanted to share this with as many people who love retro gaming as possbible, especially since at the time of this posting it's still summer here.
I feel there's something very special about playing Atari 2600 on a hot summer night, you're all hazy from the summer heat and these games just hit different then, it's like you're tripping on life and experiencing something surreal and amazing from just the season itself being right for those games. The Atari 2600 and its games just feel amazingly surreal in general, but when it's summer and it's nighttime that feeling is even more amplified in my experience.
So to illustrate just what made Atari 2600 so unique and strange I put together a video on the subject while it's still summer, no I don't make money off of this, we talked about this in my main topic about the channel in the submissions forum. I genuinely just want to share this amazing feeling with other fans of the system so don't see this as self promotion or anything, just a way for me to share and give to this community as well as over at AtariAge where I feel people would "get it" too.
It's definitely not just nostalgia when I found the Atari 2600 downright fascinating as a kid too even tho at the time I was already very familiar with far more advanced arcade games and such, we're talking back in the 80's and that feeling stuck with me to this day.
Atari 2600 always felt alien, surreal. I mean the Commodore 64 did too but that's a different topic since that gives off similar but different vibes. The beauty about these early systems they all had their own, unique vibe to them due to the hardware limitations and that's what made them so unforgettable and fascinating.
It's not just the games tho, if you guys had bootleg games where you live, like we did here in my country you know just how amazingly weird those cards could get
they had seemingly infinite games on them and the games that often came on these carts would sometimes be distorted or weird versions of other original or single cart versions
There is so much about the Atari 2600 that just feels so unreal somehow
