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I recently dusted off my Atari 2600 and got it cleaned up and working on my LCD TV. About 10 my games work fine (Pac Man, Donkey Kong, etc.) so the joysticks appear to be working. But for about 20 others i'm seeing strange behavior- they all boot and load the game but the joystick doesn't work and I can't even start the game. One exception is space invaders where I can move left and right but I can't fire. I know but button works because I can jump in Donkey Kong. Any ideas what could cause this or how I should troubleshoot? Or are they likely just old worn out cartridges?

I did, no luck

thanks for the response. I agree, and didn't expect it to look great, but the flickering is confusing. I've since tried it on my 70" TV and it works fine on that one. So the 70" is good, the 42" is good but the 55" has the flickering - all three are Samsungs with only one coax input. Very strange. I can only assume that that particular TV has an analog tuner that differs from the other two and can't support that signal very well but curious if anyone has other thoughts.

I'm having an issue getting my 2600 to work on my Samsung 55" TV. It works fine on my Samsung 42" though. Anyone have any suggestions? I have the RCA cable going into an F-adapter into the cable input. It displays but there is a really annoying flickering of the picture and sound popping - about twice per second. I've also tried adding in an RF interference filter but that didn't seem to make a difference. I've tried every setting on the TV that I could find but nothing fixed it. Again I plugged it into the 42" and there are no issues so I ruled out this being a hardware issue. Any ideas as to what I can try next, perhaps converting to another type of input?