$12 'Broken' Atari VCS Tear-Down & Restoration: 40-Year-Old "Atari Juice"

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We found an Atari VCS in a random store and decided to buy it for a tear-down and re-assembly, plus some gaming battles between Patrick and Andrew.
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This was a fun content piece. We've been in line to get Atari's new VCS since they announced it, and we're still not entirely convinced it'll ever get made. In the meantime, the actual, original Atari VCS is still available, and we just happened to walk by it when checking out a local store. The VCS was in overall great shape, but we were told it had a 'dead chip,' and we later found 40-year-old "Atari juice" inside of it. In this video, we're working on restoring the Atari VCS and getting it playable again, hopefully in anticipation of the new VCS launch. If it ever happens.
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@GamersNexus 4 года назад

We're flying to Taiwan now! Part of the plan is to look through tech markets for cool stuff, like scopes, meters, or other gear that might be fun. Check back for that!

@freezerburn6454 4 года назад

I've enjoyed watching GN videos over the years, you and your crew will be missed.

@jonahhekmatyar 4 года назад

@@freezerburn6454 lol, this sounds like they're going to die

@dra6o0n 4 года назад

@@jonahhekmatyar Yes, they have a deathwish. Or maybe they are prepared with a hazard suit and gas mask? For sure though, if they fly back to America they will likely be quarantined for 14+ days?

@jonahhekmatyar 4 года назад

@@dra6o0n Taiwan is not China. At this point being on the west coast you're probably just as likely to contract it as in Taiwan

@dra6o0n 4 года назад

@@jonahhekmatyar Well no matter where they fly, if they fly back into America they will most likely get Quarantined, as anyone flying back to Canada does as well as it's a absolute high level of caution.

@Ghyus01 4 года назад

"Senior Patrick at GN" 😂

@neoqueto 4 года назад

@Ziv Zulander But what if they hire a Steve from Mexico? It'll be confusing, one will be senior Steve, the other will be señor Steve

@teddygoboom1 4 года назад

@@neoqueto cant remember the last time a comment actually made me chuckle, good one

@99.99.9 4 года назад

Good thing you went big and got the Senior Patrick on the job. We don't need no Junior Patrick's messing things up!

@mailong.botega3040 4 года назад

Damn, I didn't notice it at first, that's a nice little touch

@inyan4361 4 года назад

That sir, is Stoner Patrick.

@Skyspace187 4 года назад

"We're not doing this for the games, we're making money on the content" You sellout! 😎

@dra6o0n 4 года назад

Is someone paying them to fly to Taiwan? In the midst of the 'human virus' outbreak?

@teddygoboom1 4 года назад

@@dra6o0n GN usually pays for their own flights to avoid potential bias towards companies that would pay otherwise

@bhew7409 4 года назад

Gamers Nexus = Atari shill, SHILLS!

@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters 4 года назад

@@bhew7409 With Atari Shells!

@iceman11766 4 года назад

@@dra6o0n i thought it was 'human malware'

@Jordan_DWB 4 года назад

When you realize the Atari juice is probably older than Senior Patrick.

@AstralS7orm 4 года назад

I think it should've been Señor Patrick.

@_faultee_ 4 года назад

That Atari is older then both of them and myself.

@hammerheadcorvette4 4 года назад

Puts in E.T cartridge. . . "Mistakes Were Made"

@rossonerodiavolo8074 4 года назад

Only real ones will know...

@Rhythmattica 4 года назад

@@rossonerodiavolo8074 Im sure theres one non-gamer that knows....Whoever ran the Digger .

@NicolaiSyvertsen 4 года назад

I still can't get over the fact there is an entire landfill of these cartridges out in New Mexico. Instead of just recycling the cartridge shells and the paper from the game manual and box.

@DaemosDaen 4 года назад

@@NicolaiSyvertsen it was the 80's eco-friendly wasn't a thing untill the 90's really.

@hammerheadcorvette4 4 года назад

@@NicolaiSyvertsen The 80's... No one was thinking of recycling back then. I think it wasn't until '92 that recycling came up as law in many states

@BlueGohan14 4 года назад

I would love to see more content like this. Also really love that you had someone else with you in the video. I haven’t personally seen this guy on your channel before but he seem pretty cool. Would be down to seeing him in more videos with you. Especially, teardown stuff like this. perhaps, you guys could do a series on stuff like this. And when you said that that was 40 years of cat hair, and dirt. You have to remember that a lot of that yellow was probably nicotine too lol. Great video guys.

@GamersNexus 4 года назад

Patrick plays a huge role at GN these days. He does most the case "build" sections in their entirety and is integral in the reviews. He appears in our secondary channel pretty regularly, particularly for Patreon videos, and I sometimes get Patrick on the main channel for streams. Keep an eye out for more!

@chrisgray704 4 года назад

@@GamersNexus Patrick is the man

@Blaze.Gaming187 4 года назад

Dang, I was expecting the metal Jesus intro.

@doleod6340 4 года назад

Nope just Metal Steve. One of his disciples.

@Blood-PawWerewolf 4 года назад

Katz Meowski it happens due to how many people watch his videos. Hell even James and Mike at Cinemassacre once talked about how much they keep seeing prices go up for games that they’ve just played in a video. It’s just classic supply and demand. And especially when it’s freakin on eBay, scalpers thrive there no matter how much you want them to go away. Just wait until the high demand goes down and then try and see if you can find a game with a good price.

@dycedargselderbrother5353 4 года назад

18:39 Heh, it's funny seeing how far we've come along where a modern tech channel is pulling DIP chips for the very first time.

@egmccann 4 года назад

I feel so old after seeing them discover this and going "Oh, that's pretty cool..." like it's this amazing new idea they've never seen before.

@SwitchFix 4 года назад

@@egmccann Holding an RCA end saying this goes into the co-ax on the TV just killed me.

@justinmallaiz4549 4 года назад

-"It's $12 dollars because its broken." -Nope, that's the way its suppose to look and sound :)

@AnOfficialAndrewFloyd 4 года назад

Have you seen the incredible demos made for it?

@TheEnd 4 года назад

My cousin forced me to watch him play on this for hours at a time.

@GamersNexus 4 года назад

Were you playing as the bad guys?

@TheEnd 4 года назад

Gamers Nexus ha! no unfortunately it was clear to me I was getting the short end of the stick

@Castaa 4 года назад

Is your cousin in jail now? :D

@TheEnd 4 года назад

Castaa yes he is.. how’d you know?

@ErdeZ 4 года назад

@@TheEnd Had you gone bowling with him when he asked, things might be different.

@NumptyMcNumptyface 4 года назад

Next step: install the AV mod so it'll work properly with modern TVs.

@osgrov 4 года назад

Ahh, christmas 1979. It's like it was yesterday, when my dad brought me the wondrous Atari VCS. I was glued to that thing for months. It was my first contact with anything computer-ish, and it changed my life. Good times. Glad you got it up and running. :)

@MafiaboysWorld 4 года назад

Wait until Steve discovers Pitfall...

@GamersNexus 4 года назад

I've played it! Just never on the original hardware.

@MafiaboysWorld 4 года назад

@@GamersNexus I feel you Steve, MAME life. 😎👍 I had a 2600 as a kid so I learned from a young age that Atari's are more indestructible than a Toyota Hilux or Nokia 5110. 👍

@CaptAj 4 года назад

13:07 best cutaway of any GN video ive ever seen lmao loved it GN team!

@the-wert 4 года назад

Somewhere there 8 Bit Guy says good job!

@Google_Does_Evil_Now 4 года назад

Game cheat for ATARI VCS: I discovered this cheat for Space Invaders when I was a kid. Flick the power switch from ON to OFF back to ON very very fast, so fast that the unit doesn't completely lose power. Do this while in Space Invaders. It will cause a second spaceship to appear to the side of your spaceship giving you double firepower. Does this cheat still work? Did anyone else discover this?

@MightySquirrel724 4 года назад

If you hold reset whenever you turn on Space Invaders, you'll get a double shot. What you're referring to, is called frying the system. You can do this with a lot of games, with interesting results.

@Davivd2 4 года назад

Yeah I did that back in the day.

@Meebzorp5200 4 года назад

Yea, I used to "fry" the system like that all the time with various games as a kid. Sometimes it was fun just to get the graphics to get all wonky and play that way, not so much to cheat.

@lesabre1972 4 года назад

No, actually we had a switch to go from tv to the game console that you would hook up to the rabbit ear antenna then change the channel to 3

@nulious 4 года назад

the 75 ohm coax connector is called an "f connector"

@lukaslauermann1984 4 года назад

I DEMAND A GN-MIXTAPE ^^ ty for the cool video, would love to see a build in that

@Mr.Morden 4 года назад

If you want to make your plastic a deeper black color use some Back to Black on it. Works great on automotive plastics, it would be perfect for this.

@GamersNexus 4 года назад

Thanks for the tip! We'll look into it for the next one.

@SwishGavigan18 4 года назад

@@GamersNexus you can also use a heat gun and warm it up with it, but not to much. It works for black faded car trims aswell. (Edit) It brings the oils in the plastic back to the surface to give it its deep colour back.

@connivingcactus539 4 года назад

@@SwishGavigan18 That can also make plastics really brittle.

@MaxUgly 4 года назад

Seems kinda racist to care so much how black it is. It is 2020 guys, can we advance as a people?

@strbskepleso 4 года назад

@@MaxUgly you funny af

@boratlmao 4 года назад

12:50 The 8-bit guy approves

@MrTheNewbiexy 4 года назад

1:26 Is it just me or "A couple decades worth of filth" sounds like a metal band consisting of middle aged men and "We're gonna see if we can get it to turn on" could be their hit song...

@Mireaze 4 года назад

That ear piercing CRT screaming at the beginning brings back memories

@SteelSkin667 4 года назад

I can't hear it anymore. Hooray for permanent hearing damage!

@taith2 4 года назад

I feel happy to have good hearing myself. Won't forget how Tom Scott noticed he can't hear it anymore once he got video complains about CRT noise

@Roche_Furman 4 года назад

Remember the static that would build up on the screen that you could sometimes actually hear?

@Mireaze 4 года назад

@@Roche_Furman yeah, one of my favourite things to do was to stick my Pokémon cards to the tube using the static

@SteelSkin667 4 года назад

@@Roche_Furman I liked to clear it up with my hand, it crackled and felt like there was some sort of invisible fur on th surface.

@Hidyman 4 года назад

Right on the synthetic fiber carpet. No ESD worries there. 8^)

@TommyHelgevold 4 года назад

It warms my heart to see these kids excited about one of my first gaming systems back in the late 70s.

@Wanooknox 4 года назад

13:41 Thank you, Tech Jesus, for these two drops of soap. Amen.

@blahorgaslisk7763 4 года назад

I guess you've already been told this by now, but that chip puller wasn't designed for DIP packages. It's made for PLCC sockets. A DIP puller is simpler and basically consists of a flat piece of spring steel that's been bent into a U shape with the tips forming hooks that slide in under the chip. Here is an example of on on Amazon: www.amazon.com/BCP-Green-Circuit-Puller-Extractor/dp/B01G3DDLN0?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_4 These pullers are a bit more secure and stable when lifting a DIP than using a PLCC puller. There are more advanced DIP pullers but these are more specific about the shape and size of the chip and not as common.

@atenga5881 4 года назад

For anyone interested in the unit they have here it's what is known as an atari vcs "4 switcher" and is one the most common revisions. There are like 10 different models of the atari consoles ranging from slight revisions to full blown hardware clones. Sears had a whole line of rebadged consoles with unique aesthetics for the systems (awesome walnut wood grain that looked sweet) they also had a unique revision that used a shell for an unreleased atari console. There was the "vader 4 switcher" in all black this also the first revision they referred to as an atari 2600. They later miniaturized the system with the atari 2600 jr. which was meant as a budget console in the mid 80's. Coleco made their own standalone version of the system after they released an add on peripheral to play atari carts for their colecovision. Atari sued but the courts ruled in Coleco's favor so Coleco released the standalone console and called it the gemini. However the real holy grail of vcs consoles is the "heavy sixers" (6 front switch units) as they were the only systems produced in america. These aren't to be confused with the "light sixer" which was lighter, wasn't produced in the US, had slightly different molding in the plastic, and aren't as valuable today. Just some useless info from a former atari collector.

@bigal2688 4 года назад

13:08 I don't understand why he doesn't want to come out Here?? LOL!

@MechaKanix 4 года назад

RF module, I think it's called,

@jmacd8817 4 года назад

Close, RF modulator. :D

@nwimpney 4 года назад

@@jmacd8817 Actually, the modulator's on the board. I think it came with a balun (balanced -> unbalanced transformer) so that you could connect it to an even older style tv that only had the screw connectors for an antenna, or a standard cable connector as they have here.

@kenabi 4 года назад

only for some of the versions, some required an external modulator.

@jsawhite 4 года назад

wish I could say I've never really seen one before... Sadly, I remember when my parents bought one when it first released... My brother and I played the crap out of it...

@startedtech 4 года назад

Are you gonna use that LN2 in the background to overclock it?

@therocinante3443 4 года назад

Dude this is awesome! I used to friggin love my Atari and I miss those days. Thanks for this video dude!

@tomchizek9670 4 года назад

This takes me back, I had one of these in the late 1970s and did a chip replacement to fix it when I was in high school. Good video guys!

@nathanmilnthorpe11 4 года назад

Nice Video Guys. If you would like a Tip on saving your Sanity during Gameplay then use a MegaDrive/Genesis Controller :-) The Atari Joysticks although Nostalgic are almost always Broken

@DeathBr0ther 4 года назад

i love how they act like it's some kind of fossil and he's a tech "expert" with no knowledge of an Atari.....nice, very nice

@jackielinde7568 4 года назад

I think Centipede and Pole Position were the only games you guys showed that I played back in the 80s. (Yeah, my dad bought one either 80 or 81.) Sad, you don't have Space Invader, Pac Man, and Missile Command, since those were the iconic games on the platform.

@scj350 4 года назад

For those old enough to remember, this was the game changer in the 80’s. Before this there was the pong tennis game. That’s it. 100’s of games. Color! Music! Trigger finger! You may laugh at it today, but it was the BEST present you could get back then.

@BoltHardcheese 4 года назад

So many good memories. I grew up playing the Atari 2600 and later Atari 5200 with my dad. Now we both play PC games, but our gaming roots are solid.

@niino4329 4 года назад

That chip puller is actually made for PLCC sockets, not DIP. There are dedicated chip pullers for DIP with wider hooks.

@mortente 4 года назад

Just little hint, the tool you are using for removing the chip is made for removing PLCC IC's from their sockets not for DIP IC's

@60sbud52 4 года назад

The empire strikes back was a amazing game, I spent hours playing that as a kid

@egmccann 4 года назад

Still have it, here.

@6XGate 4 года назад

Steve: "It has a couple of decades of filth on it"... Me: A couple... more like four. Haha...

@baneblackguard584 4 года назад

that wasn't a couple decades worth, that was actually in pretty good shape. a years worth of gaming and that thing would have looked more orange from all the doritos and cheese puffs.

@cooperberrysmith7701 4 года назад

"He looks so smug" Senior Patrick @ET

@TehFreek 4 года назад

> uses a PLCC puller to pull DIPs *OW, OW, OW...* It works, but... it's painful to watch.

@maryetdave 4 года назад

*Wish I knew what happened to the one I had as a kid 🤔 will need to interrogate my parents*

@patbluetree4636 4 года назад

Puts "Space Invaders" in, hold down reset switch and hit power. Welcome back to 1983.

@someguyinjersey976 4 года назад

I got one of these in 78 or 79 for Christmas. Atari Adventure was my favorite game on it. We thought it couldn't get any better than being able to play Space Invaders and Defender on our 13" color tv lol. How far we've come in 40 years

@Pheatrix 4 года назад

No fancy B-roll of the cleaned Atari? I'm disappointed...

@Snotkoglen 4 года назад

The chip removal tool you have there is for a PLCC chip, not for a DIP. But hey it worked.

@brianmotley1 4 года назад

Oh man the memories. Back when ET and the game Journey were hits. Dang im old

@mdeangelo2434 4 года назад

Patrick: "I don't wanna go outside Steve: (pretty much), "This is fine"

@pronstorestiffi 4 года назад

You can pull up chips with a flathead, but using a plcc extractor will make it a lot harder for you to bend the pins.

@GenXParanormal 4 года назад

I don't remember a difficulty switch on mine. I had an original one some 40 years ago *cough*.

@motor-head 4 года назад

I had one. New. When they first came out. And I was like 18 years old at that time. Oh god, death is not far away now.

@mr.critic 4 года назад

Atari could have easily put some slots on the console for storing cartridges.

@TheDonRapello 4 года назад

I had one of these in 80's. Pacman and Centipede. My first "console" :D

@rwiersema 4 года назад

I bet it didn't work because you didn't use the special chip applicator

@rossonerodiavolo8074 4 года назад

23:23 Sing me the song of your People

@gabeconstanza15 3 года назад

That man didnt sell you a broken Atari, he predicted the future.

@jak8274 4 года назад

People need to stop wasting their time with the qtips and alcohol - disassemble it and scrub it with soap and water. I use unscented dish soap and a fingernail brush and go to town in the sink. Just make sure to dry it fully before reassembling everything! It will go a lot further than just wads of cotton and some disinfectant. Edit: yeeeeaaaa boiiiii

@GamersNexus 4 года назад

People need to stop wasting their time posting comments without watching the video.

@rubuk2996 4 года назад

BEVE STURKE!(edit: 5th)

@trukr817 4 года назад

That puller you have there, is an extractor for PLCC (like Fat Agnus in the Amiga). You insert the ends in the slots and give it a squeeze to extract the chip. Using that on DIPP is cringe.

@GamersNexus 4 года назад

Worked great!

@NinjaManZX10 4 года назад

I was playing with this in 80's omg i am old

@Keonyn 4 года назад

Yup, me too. Our family never had one, but my friends all had a different early console. One had the Atari, another had a Colecovision and then another had a TI-99. Of course, by this time the NES was already around but we still plugged in those now and then to play some classics.

@GreySectoid 4 года назад

Atari! E.T.! Video game crash!

@damienr735 4 года назад

Steve walking away for “a bit” while Patrick cleans seems to happen quite often 🙄

@S0K0N0MI 4 года назад

"This is not a normal coax" yes it is, its PAL.

@AveragePootis 4 года назад

Please do not build inside that, that thing is an important piece of gaming history

@anumeon 4 года назад

The cartridge slot would make a great place for an external hot-swappable HDD bay wouldn't it? If you ever decide to go down the whole ITX build route.

@USSMariner 4 года назад

I actually have a hot-swap ssd bay in my tower lol

@fardnia9434 4 года назад

wait this isn't an 8-bit guy video? the notification confused me

@dhgodzilla1 4 года назад

I have 3 of these. I planned on restoring them this summer lol

@cidsapient7154 4 года назад

25:50 "theres some mechanics to it" back then the mechanics in games was ur imagination lol

@KomradeMikhail 4 года назад

Techs confused by DIP chips ?? Comedy Gold !!

@geekdomo 4 года назад

Atari 2600 was my big Christmas gift in 1977. I loved that thing. I also still have a completely sealed unopened ET that I bought in a bargain bin in the early 80s.

@craighinkle9836 4 года назад

Asteroids, Pitfall, Centipede and Missile Command. those were my favorites from the 2600.

@Trick-Framed 4 года назад

I so love that you did this! The Atari 2600 was my first console (I had Pong, so 2nd technically). It was so great to see Steve Burke working with one of these! Kudos!

@soupwizard 4 года назад

You gotta play Space Invaders, the two player mode is pretty fun (until you get really good and hit the max level when it doesn't get any harder)

@arokh72 4 года назад

Oooooooo a woody, so cool. This was my introduction to video gaming, via a friend of the family. I loved Pitfall back in the day. Thanks for the teardown, and the nostalgia run Steve.

@GamersNexus 4 года назад

We should get Pitfall in next time we set it up!

@macugino 4 года назад

Two words for you. Dig dug.

@timmooney7528 4 года назад

Chopper Command and Yar's Revenge are also must have games.

@RetroDawn Год назад

@@timmooney7528 Indeed! Demon Attack and most other Imagic games are also some of the best. As are some of the other overlooked Activision titles, like Spider Attack. The best are the newer homebrew games, though, including some I'm working on.

@kneehighspy 4 года назад

the chip puller you’re using is for plcc (plasitic leaded chip carrier) ic packages, you need a chip puller for dip (dual inline package) ic packages.

@zaphtdorf6139 4 года назад

was gonna say the same thing

@teddygoboom1 4 года назад

I like the more relaxed feel of this type of video. I was just wondering how you manage to dive so deep into topics on a daily basis, hopefully you guys caught a little break on this one. Can't wait to see which factories you guys are visiting this time around. In case my comment isn't already convoluted enough, I'd be really interested in a trx40 taichi breakdown, bz doesn't seem too interested in that chipset for whatever reasons.

@g.h.c855 4 года назад

Hysterical that none of you even knew what the connectors were

@bradleythatcher2869 4 года назад

Finally branching out of the hotel business. Good for Atari.

@d3115uxor 4 года назад

that moment when steve experiences "insertion force"

@blackmennewstyle 4 года назад

Back in the days where "developers" were the ones who were running "tech companies"...

@MyNameIsBucket 4 года назад

...and not their marketing departments.

@AandNvg 4 года назад

Not really. Atari during the early 1980's was run by marketing people.

@tobycripe8385 4 года назад

AandNvg and they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!

@FarmerKlein 4 года назад

Realizing those making this content where no born when these where a real thing that you remember playing.... not priceless.

@heimvar 4 года назад

Do a PS2 mini ITX build!! I've been thinking about it because I have three PlayStation 2s and two of them I just use for parts so their shells are basically just that shells. I'll never get over the aesthetic of the PS2 chassis though I'll love it to death

@agenda697 4 года назад

Yep PS2 case is nice, i have 7 Fattie PS2s (+3 slims) i'm gonna ITX one or maybe Raspberry Pie !

@heimvar 4 года назад

@@agenda697 I'm only rocking fatties because I don't trust the reliably of the slims /: but good on ya man!! If you do make some content do I can feel more confident in the thoughts of doing mine :) I will when I do too!! A Pi is a good idea too!

@swayze240 4 года назад

Thanks, I'm gonna have nightmares of riding my bicycle into a pit and being taken away by government men.

@flux1969 4 года назад

This was the first gaming console I ever had back in the late 70's, I played spaced Invaders for hours on end.

@kane100574 4 года назад

those electrolytes are wasted, I'm sure!

@nemtudom5074 4 года назад

3:41 Is there a junior Patrick at GN?

@TrueThanny 4 года назад

03:57 That is a completely normal RF coaxial plug, of the RCA style. TV's of the time had either a socket for that plug, or (more likely) a pair of screw terminals. Consoles came with a switched adapter which took input from the console via RCA coaxial RF, and output to the TV with screw connectors (the U-shaped pads that you tighten the screws onto). Some had a secondary RF input for the TV antenna, or a set of screws on the adapter for separate antenna wires. One of the really fancy things about the NES was that it's adapter didn't need to be switched. It just knew when the game was on, and switched automatically.

@Ale.K7 4 года назад

Playing at "a 110° angle" from the TV... Just like the happy children/family in old videogame boxes and adverts!

@daviniarobbins9298 9 месяцев назад

I think there were 6 re-modelling of this console over its 15 year operational lifespan. They were: Heavy 6-switcher(1977) Light 6-switcher(1978 to 1980) 4-switcher woodgrain(1980 to 1982) 4-switcher "Darth Vader"(1982 to 1984) Junior short rainbow(produced in 1983, intended for release in 1984 delayed until 1986 because of the game crash) Junior long rainbow(1986 to 1992) There was an all black junior released only in Ireland. These consoles still work nearly 50 years later. Somehow I doubt any Playstation 5s will still be working in 2060s without any repairs needed doing to them. And even if one still works it probably won't be usable. Atari sold 30 million over 15 years so they aren't rare. I got one from 1980. It probably needs re-capping though. Don't know if I want to spend the money on it though.

@Tech215Studios 4 года назад

Lucky bastard, we've gotten zero fuckin snow this winter in Philly. Totally fuckin gipped!!!

@mr.critic 4 года назад

You both could use some coffee ffs 😂

@bassbatterer 4 года назад

If you're doing some work on it, it may be an idea to replace that blue Nikon electrolytic cap. Old electrolytics have a tendency to dry out.

@brutalness 4 года назад

Patrick has to be a stoner. Looking at him at the start of this video.

@Bl00dwerK 4 года назад

Probably an Aris sub.

@SuperMatthew128 4 года назад

I easily noticed that you replaced the original Atari CPU (which is a MOS Technologies 6507) with (what looks like) a MOS Technologies 6502 CPU (from a Commodore 64 or VIC20, most likely). They are incompatible with each other, because the 6507 is a simpler, cost-down version of the 6502, having less address lines, and so, not able to access as much RAM as the 6502 (which could access up to 64KB of RAM (Commodore 64 name comes from the 64KB of RAM that it had, given that the 6502 cannot address more than that)). Also, certain pins on the 6507 did different things compared to the 6502, because they implemented certain functions that the Atari used, and a regular computer (such as the VIC20 or C64) didn't need. That is why nothing happened when you tried to play E.T., and when inserted that original CPU back, it worked.

@shaneeslick 4 года назад

G'day Steve, Patrick & Andrew, Spending Years with the Graphics Quality of these Gaming Consoles is why I don't NEED a Stupid expensive GPU in my Gaming PC 😁, Wow! how Awesome it still works, when I was a kid we couldn't afford a real Atari so we had a Coleco Gemini, it used Atari 2600 cartridges & had the Joystick & Scroll wheel on the same controller, I used to love Centipede