Distributor: Atari
Manufacturer: Atari
Released: N.America 1986 Europe 1986
Units Sold: Over 30 Million worldwide (Includes all versions of the Atari 2600)
RS:3/2
Expect to pay: 30GBP.
List of games available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_2600_games
Best Fan Site:
www.atariage.com

General Info:
The Atari 2600 Jr. was introduced in 1986 with a new ad campaign and a new design for the aging system. It came in a small silver box, and can also be found in a red box. Once again it has the same functionally as other Atari models, just a difference in appearance. This is sometimes called the "Short Rainbow" version because the rainbow colored bar is shorter than the revised model.

Best selling game:
Pac Man sold over 7 Million copies. It is an inferior version of the arcade classic.


Top 10 Must have games: Space Invaders, Missile Command, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Pitfall, Asteroids, Combat, Defender, Double Dragon, Frogger.

Technical Specs:
The basic layout of the 2600 is fairly similar to most consoles and home computers of the era. The CPU was the MOS Technology 6507, a cut-down version of the 6502, running at 1.19 MHz in the 2600. The 6507 included fewer memory address pins —13 instead of 16 —and no external interrupts to fit into a smaller 28-pin package. Smaller packaging was, and still is, an important factor in overall system cost, and since memory was very expensive at the time, the 6507's small 8 kB of maximum external memory space wasn't going to be used up anyway. In fact, memory was so expensive they couldn't imagine using up even 4K, and when they got a deal on 24-pin connectors for the cartridge socket, they were only too happy to thereby limit the games to 4K. Later games got around this limitation with bank switching.

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