I fixed an Atari 2600
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So I got out my spare, backup Atari 2600 out of the garage to see if it would give me an improved picture quality. No, in fact no picture. The thing was broken. It would light up for a tenth of a second and then nothing. I thought to myself "It's dead. I can't harm it any more," so I laid the thing down on the dining room table and attempted an operation.
Attempting to put the thing back together was the hardest part. I think it's a "Vader", if it has 4 switches. It kept forcing the cartridge slot down, so I took it back in my room and inserted a cart and then tried to put the top back on. After all, it can't go around topless. After struggling for a few minutes, something clicked and it was back together, albeit without screws, which are still on the dining room table. I turned it on, and it worked. Not an improved picture quality, but better than not working at all.
But after various setups, the best picture quality came when I plugged my NES into the TV and then plugged the Atari into the NES box's antenna hole. My NES is a top loading one, for convenience mostly. And after years of being a kid and constantly putting in and taking out NES games in a boxy console that you had to push down and then start. But back to the Atari 2600. This is the first successful surgery I've ever had. It's playing the BMX Airmaster title screen music right now.
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