while our parents were visiting recently we got out the atari 2600 and played a couple games with our dad (it was his atari when he was a kid and he thoroughly beat us at all of them despite not having played in probably over thirty years), and it has me kinda wanting to try streaming some atari games but: how the *fuck* do you video capture the output when it's RF only? this was well before any TV had any input other than twin-lead RF for an antenna
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also we discovered that our dad's atari is apparently a really rare model, one of the "heavy sixers" (the physically heavier of two models that had six switches on the front; this is the first model that was made) with a label that says "made in taiwan" (they were only made in taiwan for a few months, and not in large volume as they were switching over to the light sixer design that was made in hong kong) to the point that there are people on collectors' forums saying they don't exist
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actually, thinking about that 2600, i'm curious: what games on it should we keep an eye out for if we visit a used game store or something? Just curious if there are any that are particularly good (not concerned with collectibility)
We were surprised by how good Phoenix and Defender were
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@Felthry i really liked night driver and activision's admittedly rather basic tennis game for whatever reason. no idea how much they go for these days but we got our copies (which we long ago gave to a friend) from goodwill for like a dollar a decade or so back
@patchwork really? we thought night driver was just the game where you're driving on an empty road at night
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@Felthry i mean, that's about it, though i do remember quite a lot of dodging, as well. it's very simple, but it's fun to play with some music on in the background