2600-like traits that seem to have blown away in the wind.

[riki]

It's a crying shame that everything now looks like Tomb Raider to me. If only people could look back and appreciate the old ways. I hate it that magazines like GamePro compare new PSone and Game Boy color games to Xbox games. That's not fair.

 

The only recent innovation I've seen was Dance Dance Revolution (and I can go up to difficulty level 6!)

 

Too bad you can't fine-tune the difficulty level and make the new games really easy or really hard like you could with most Atari 2600 games. That would be of great help to everyone.

 

Recently though, I found out that Activision(!) made an Atari 2600 clone (it's actually one of those weird controller multicart thingies like the TV Joy or TV Boy or something...) which you can plug in to your TV, and play 11(I think) of Activision's most popular Atari 2600 games like Pitfall. A friend of mine pointed it out to me at a software store. (I think it was EB)