Space Cavern Atari 2600 Game. Game only. Great condition!!! Tested and works like new.
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
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Additional information
| Weight | 8 lbs |
|---|---|
| Product Type | |
| Platform | Atari 2600 |
| ESRB Rating | Everyone |
| Genre | Shooter |
| Players | 1-2 |
| Condition | Used |
Good replacement for my Son!
My family (7, 9, Atari-era grownups) enjoyed this, though none of us has any interest in video games. It’s not a life-changing experience, but the history related is often surprising and several of the people interviewed are fascinating. My 7-year-old has asked several times to watch it again.
I wasn’t sure if I’d care about a doc about Atari. I do like tech and I was in college when Space Invaders broke out big, but I’ve never been a video game person. I have been more into music and later computers (not gaming on computers though).I’m glad I gave this movie a bit of a chance. It’s interesting. There’s the story of Atari, but it’s not really a deep look at the company. It’s more about people some of whom were part of Atari others who are astute fans and historians. To put Atari in perspective: before there were laptops, Xboxes, PlayStations, and eve iPhones Atari became the biggest selling consumer electronic device sold during its heyday.Fun is what this is. It is a company that sold fun and surprised itself with a huge fast level of success. This was uncharted territory too so there wasn’t a model. By certain moves only an uncharted high-flying company could make Atari killed itself. It certainly didn’t kill the industry it created as it rose again in spectacular fashion. But you get the basic rise and downfall, the people who were at Atari telling us about it, and the story behind one fabled game which supposedly killed the company. Oh, you also get a present day vindication of the game with a crazy archaeological dig resurrecting part of that legend. This is one more fun Atari centric game you simply watch.
Works great with the Atari Flashback
I don’t think you have to be much of a gamer to get involved with and enjoy this little documentary about the rise and fall of Atari. At just over an hour it flies along and certainly doesn’t outstay it’s welcome – taking in contributions from programmers, creators, fans, urban legend enthusiasts and more.In entertaining, amusing and at times heartfelt fashion it covers the genesis of the Atari brand, the peak of its powers and the inevitable demise. The real selling point though and the dominant through line of the whole story is of course E.T The Video Game. Is it the worst game of all time? Did it kill Atari? Are thousands of cartridges buried in a dumping ground as the myth suggests? The answers are all here and it’s a fun journey getting to them. This comes recommended.
Brilliant
Killer doc.
Quite good. But far too much dirt and excavation for my taste. I don’t even know how much background about the company from this. It was interesting that they were looking for buried treasure, but I was hoping for a documentary on the company.
This documentary tells the story of the Atari company through the lens of the urban legend about how the firm buried millions of cartridges of the E.T. game, "the worst video game in history," and how this one game brought down not only Atari, but the entire video game industry. The truth of course is more mundane, but along the way we are treated to reminisces by former engineers of Atari’s freewheeling party atmosphere that set the tone for every Silicon Valley startup that followed it, along with a great introduction to forensic archeology in the Alamogordo, New Mexico municipal dump, treated with the same reverence as an excavation of Pompeii or Troy. It’s all great fun, and director Zak Penn keeps things moving in a frenetic style suggestive of a video game, with a good balance between talking heads and action in the field.One former executive explains briefly that Atari was not brought down by a bad video game (it turns out that E.T. sold fairly well, and wasn’t even that bad of a game), but by the corporate environment that allowed one game to have that much of an effect – that is, I think that’s what he meant. I would have appreciated a little more exposition here; Atari made around 4 million E.T. cartridges, and even if every single one of them was unsold or returned, assuming a few bucks manufacturing costs each, that should hardly have made a dent in a company of close to half a billion dollars in annual sales – and that’s 1982 dollars, and doesn’t even.
This joystick is not of great quality, but it works fine. The joystick was a little stiff at first, but after playing donkey kong for about 15 minutes, it loosened up some. The stick and button is very responsive. I definatly recommend this particular joystick controller over buying a used original atari 2600 joystick. Those were made in the early 80s, and its a total crapshoot over whether or not you will recieve one that works well, or works at all. Good buy for sure :)