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Ok, the problem was indeed the channel.. I feel kind of stupid now.. Thanks for your answers. I think I put the channel switch to the "2" position by accident..

I played yesterday, everything was fine. Now I take it to play a little and no games works. Instead, when I put it on, there's no black screen, it's just the kind of snow that is different. Like the problem is in the cable to the TV, precisely in the console I think. I don't know what happen, maybe some pieces broke inside or it's too dusty. Did someone ever had that problem or think you can help me? Please Thanks

Can I use that, will it work or will it damage the cartridge? Because I only found 70%, I don't have any 90-100%.

Hi, I bought a 4-switch wooden Atari VCS on eBay, with 61 games, two joystick, a pair of paddles, all the stuff and I have some (maybe stupid) questions; I have a TV/Game thing for the plug in the TV, it works well and I find the quality good. I read that with the little coaxial thing the quality is better, but is it really better because like I said it looks fine. Than, some joystick question. One joystick is really stiff to move, the other one isn't. I can't see why, and I wanna know if I can do something about it. There was a lot of dirt, I put a little water on the rubber thing so it's clean but still stiff. Also, the button on that joystick misses the spring, so that sucks.. I read that I can replace it with the spring inside those pens, does it works? Well, I tried to cut the spring to the good size but I can't cut it, oh well... About the paddle, one of them (unfortunetly, the "first player" one), is jittery (I think that's the word), if I just open it and blow in it, it's okay or I really need to put something? And If I do, is there something that I might have in my house that'll work well? One of my catridges just doesn't work. And really, it doesn't work, there two or three others games that I had to try many times before it works, but this one just don't work. Do I need to put something like alcohol in there or it might work if I blow in it and use a Q-tip during hours (I know, I'm saying stupid things..)? And this game appears to be the special Popeye label. Made in Taiwan, something like that. Which has a "?" rarity. I don't know why, could you tell me if it is rare? I think that's all, sorry if this is a little stupid. Oh well, thanks for your future responses -a 14 years old French Canadian