16th July 2017, 10:20 PM
I'm surprised you had such bad luck finding a working Atari 2600. My experience has been those things are built to last. I suppose they are old enough that even good build quality won't protect them forever, but still surprising. My own is working good at least. I've got a 6 switch model & love the thing. I suppose in the long run I should get a 7800 since it's fully backwards compatible and also has better video & audio, but haven't yet reached the point where I want to start collecting the more obscure consoles. Problem is, it may be too late for me to start that considering just how expensive those things are now.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)