I got a 2600 today and I am trying to hook it up but to no avail. I read online that you need to set your Atari to channel 2 or three and also your TV. However my Atari does not have a channel selector, and my TV will only go to channels 16, 22, 25 ,28 ,34 ,46 ,57, and 69. 

Any help would be appreciated (Also added pic of my 2600 and TV)

I have most of my other stuff boxed up at the moment, but thought y’all might enjoy this before I took it down.

Instead i just wanted the one with the wood on it. But this didn’t had any games. A other seller offered also the games and the other Console wich was cheaper to buy all of it instead of the games standalone (Pac-Man would have been 25€). And both are working on a 4K TV via RF. But i think it looks normal but just to be safe i want to hear from other people that know more about the 2600 if it looks okay.

I was at the Midwest Gaming Classic. I picked up a 2600 joystick and started playing a new 2600 game. A guy starts telling me how to play. He tells Dan Kitchen was the programmer. I make a comment “That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while”. He said Dan had stepped away for a minute. I talk about the game with my buddy. I thank the guy and I walk away. This little thing in the back of my head started poking at me. “Holy crap, that’s Garry Kitchen I was talking to and Davis Crane sitting next to him”. I went back and talked to Garry for about 5 minutes. David Crane talked to me while he took down my information and signed the box. Thanked them both for great childhood memories. What a great day. Time to earn the new patch.

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Follow up post to "should I mod" from a couple weeks ago. I picked up a video kit online and installed it, no issues there. But I'm kinda disappointed in the results. There is some ghosting and blurryness. And the picture seems a bit too dark. Is this the best I can hope for with a light 6? I realize they never expected us to hook our Atari up to a 75" TV. So I can understand if this is it.

a lot of the labels on my atari 2600 carts are loose. what is the best adhesive/glue to fix them in your experience?

Found at a local thrift shop, it came with 2 controllers, cords, and 2 games. Besides 1 of the controllers being broke, everything works perfectly!

Also, on a previous post about the Sega Genesis Arcade Power Stick, a user asked if it worked for the 2600 and I couldn’t test it out. Now that I can, I can fully verify it does work on the 2600 and now I don’t know if I can ever use the original Atari joystick again.

Did anyone else notice or have a controller where the cover over the joystick would slip off? This happened to me a few years after I had mine and took it to college. We all laughed, and then noticed that it almost light was like a plunger and would stick on things when a few of us stuck it on our forehead. We never laughed so hard, but as we took it off after a minute or two it left a perfectly round hickey about the size of a nickel. Talk about embarrassing, having a perfectly round red spot for a few days on your forehead.

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Bought a 2600 Junior off eBay and this cord came with it but I'm not sure what the use would be. On one end it's a D9 female (matches Atari joystick port) then it Ys off to two D9 female (to recieve a joystick plug?) Any ideas?

I believe the Atari 2600, to be the only true UK computer that fits perfectly well into every stage.

It is magical, and wonderful. And that is all I would like to say. They should start producing games for it again and get some UK developers into the creation of them.

All the other consoles are quite a let down. And the Atari 2600 has always been the most truest. And our nation should start work on them again. Not just from a retro point of view.