Whatever happened to… Atari 2600

The godfather of modern consoles brought videogaming to the masses

8-bit gaming Like the Fairchild Channel F which launched the previous year, the Atari 2600 was an 8-bit console. It had a MOS Technology 6507 CPU running at 1.19MHz, with just 128 bytes of RAM It used cartridges The games were sold on cartridge, nine of which were available at launch. Pac-Man was the biggest seller, shifting seven million copies Atari’s iconic joystick Two CX-10 joysticks with a four-directional stick and a single button were bundled with the first consoles, along with a set of paddle controllers Basic graphics The console was hooked up to a TV and graphics were generated in real time. Games had access to a 128-colour palette on NTSC systems and 104 on PAL Lots of models Atari produced various different models and made minor revisions…

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