I have 23 years and I remember when I was younger my father playing with his Atari System. I would like bidding on one on ebay and I'm not sure which type I should be bidding on. Can someone explain to me about the numbers that follow the Atari? Am sure like systems today, the highest number means it is more recent. I'm trying to find the one you had. Also, what was CASTILLO / game called Dragon and the chicken cross the road, and IBRD / OTHER OBJECTS, SHOOTING (Pheonix if applicable)? How much should I spend or rather what should I put my maximum bid? Thanks to who ever answers! I hope many people do it because I really need advice.
Atari had several generations consoles 5200-1982 2600-1977 7800 - 1986 Jaguar - 1993 The most popular and successful of these was the 2600, which ultimately had more games in its library, then the other three machines combined, taking into account the games you're thinking is probably what his father had. Atari also released a series of computers personal during the 80s (the 5200 was, in fact basically an Atari 400 computer without keyboard), and a handheld computer (the lynx) in 1989. With regard to questions of your game ... The chicken crossed the road "could only be Freeway game by Activision. I had to play, and it was pretty fun. The Castle "/" dragon Adventure game is more probable, which is considered by most as one of the best games ever made for 2600. The "bird / other objects shooting "game is much more difficult to define, because there was a lot of games made for the 2600 shooting several of which were birds or animals that might confused with the birds given raw graphics. Phoenix is a very good assumption. It could also be possibly Demon Attack (which looked a lot like Phoenix) Yar's Revenge, or galaxy, or something else that I'm not thinking. If you would like to get into this, check out the website atariage.com. They have information and photos for all Atari consoles, and for almost any game released in these consoles you can find photos of the box and the cartridge, the game screen shots, reviews, and in many cases even manual scans - and they tell you how common is a game too, to help you avoid paying more for the bad Pac-Man cartridge someone is trying to unload on eBay for five times what it is worth it. ETA: I had not thought of Just for the game birds, but if you remember then that there was shooting be, because just had no shot. Things killed by blows on them. Here is another game that I thought my first answer: the Carnival. That was a shooting game target with rabbits and ducks and owls and other objectives, one of the ducks regularly come to life and fly to the bottom of the screen, and if not rolled before getting there is eating some of their bullets.
