Atari 2600 Heavy Sixer

[Nick16]

I recently found an Atari 2600 in a box in my garage. It has all the original paddles, joysticks, etc. with it. I took multiple pictures of it and from my own research I believe its a heavy sixer. I'm brand new to this so I apologize for my lack of correct wording when it comes to Atari. I also have multiple games including Combat with the case and with the Program instructions as well as the Atari Catalog that came with it.

I'm just trying to figure out more info on this and would love if someone could help me out with it.

I'll attach the pictures of the Console as well as joysticks and paddles.

Hope this helps!

Thank you,

Nick

 

[BassGuitari]

Welcome!

It looks like you've got a mish-mash of heavy and light sixer components. For starters, the console is a light sixer, not a heavy. Heavy sixers have more rounded corners on the sides and thicker, slightly curved molding in the base. It's a Sunnyvale light sixer, though, which is somewhat unusual, but not unheard of.

The gray power supply would have been included with heavy sixers, and you have a nice gatefold 01 Combat that would have been packed with a heavy sixer or sold separately during its production run (presumably so owners of the Sears version of the system, which came with Air-Sea Battle--renamed Target Fun--could buy it, too), and probably for a short while after Atari started rolling out light sixers.

The controllers are CX40 joysticks and CX30 paddles and were standard with the light sixer and four switch woody (CX40s ditched the orange trim and went all black at the time of the "Vader" system's release); the joysticks that came with the heavy sixer are actually CX10s and are most easily recognizable by the lack of the word "top" in the trim. They're also different internally, operating via spring switches instead of domes, and have a different feel than CX40s. Heavy sixer paddles had an Atari logo instead of the word "paddle."

The catalog dates from 1978, I believe.

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[Professor Gull]

Welcome!

 

It looks like you've got a mish-mash of heavy and light sixer components. For starters, the console is a light sixer, not a heavy. Heavy sixers have more rounded corners on the sides and thicker, slightly curved molding in the base. It's a Sunnyvale light sixer, though, which is somewhat unusual, but not unheard of.

 

 

The controllers are CX40 joysticks and CX30 paddles and were standard with the light sixer and four switch woody (CX40s ditched the orange trim and went all black at the time of the "Vader" system's release); the joysticks that came with the heavy sixer are actually CX10s and are most easily recognizable by the lack of the word "top" in the trim. They're also different internally, operating via spring switches instead of domes, and have a different feel than CX40s. Heavy sixer paddles had an Atari logo instead of the word "paddle."

 

 

Welcome to the wide world of Atari!

Yeah that's definitely a nice light sixer. It was tough from the initial pictures buy the heavy's had a real thick Biezel. Looks clean though and a nice addition. Did you have the box for it as well? Just curious for pictures of it and all.

Edited May 17, 2016 by Professor Gull

[+sramirez2008]

Sweet another Sunnyvale Light Sixer! I have one too.

 

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