How come I have never seen this one before?
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- Dr. KillGood
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So is it like rare or something?
I thin it looks cool.
Or is this the "vader" 2600? I thought that was just a black regular one.
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Nope. It's the 2600 'Jr.', made from the mid 1980s to when they discontinued the 2600. It cost about $50 and was part of a huge undertaking to keep the nearly 10 year old 2600 alive as a budget console, even after the NES, Master System, and (later on) Genesis had been released.
It's not really rare...
It's not really rare...
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Besides that it might be the fabled first Atari on a chip. Atari condensed the RAID, TIA and 6502 into one. Ben has experimented with it, but it is rare so it's not seen as much as the others that use three separate chips.
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I believe the "jan" chip was never actually incorperated into systems. Ben was looking for the chip but never found it. Besides it was far from "perfect for portables" (altough VERY VERY handy)Sparkfist wrote:Besides that it might be the fabled first Atari on a chip. Atari condensed the RAID, TIA and 6502 into one. Ben has experimented with it, but it is rare so it's not seen as much as the others that use three separate chips.
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Maybe a little smaller, as you can have a custom PCB for the chip made. Other then that I doubt you can shave off more then an inch or two.Dr. KillGood wrote:Would it make a super small portable?
Ben did find one, I think he used it in one of the Vagabond VCSp.... 2000 I think.
@xtrmgam3r360, I wouldn't judge anything by how a goodwill sells it. I was just saying that compared to the standard three chip Atari 2600, it's rare.
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a 4-switcher with the 4x4" cutdown is pretty much as small as you'd need, anyway... when you factor in the screen, batteries, controls, etc. the motherboard's size doesn't matter that much (since you're only as small as your largest part, and the 4x4 isn't much bigger than most of these other parts)
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