When someone mentions the 2600, what 2600 console comes to mind?

[ApolloBoy]

Whenever you hear or see the 2600 being mentioned, what 2600 console do you think of? For me, it's the 4-switch woody, mainly because it's the most common 2600 console, and as a result I see it more often than other 2600 consoles.

[Shawn]

7800

[ewing92]

when i here the 2600 mentioned, i immediately think of the front of a woodgrain model, with the "Atari 2600" on it. I really don't think of the switches, but then immediately after i get that mental image of the woodgrain i think of my vader and it's 4 switches.

[+poobah]

Heavy Sixer - its what we had when I was little. Then again. I have mentally ingrained the vcs = 2600 conversion.

[jboypacman]

Wood-grain six-switcher.

[Recycled]

Light-sixer.

[G.Whiz]

I never really got into the 2600/VCS thing. To me, it was always just "Atari". I didn't even realize there was a difference between "Heavy Sixers" and "Light Sixers" until finding this board years ago. But I do remember the 4-switches coming in, and thinking that the people who bought those were getting ripped off.

 

So "2600" translates to "Atari" to "six-switch with the genuine imitation wood grain panelling" in my mind, and everything else a shadow of what went before.

 

~G

[Ghost Soldier]

4-switch woody

[accousticguitar]

A 4-switch woody.

[Lord Helmet]

I think of the woody, six swich. I never think og the Jr.

[joeybastard]

I think of the woody, six swich. I never think og the Jr.

 

Same here. It was the one I had as a kid so I think it just sticks in my mind.

[Foxsolo2000]

Woodgrain six switcher

[Codysgames]

4-switch woodgrain

[Mindcircus]

4-switch woody, the console of my childhood.

 

I've been using my Vader for the past 8 years, but nothing says '80s quite like woodgrain!

[bcprs1]

I had the black - dark vader as a kid. That is the one I think of.

[oldgames]

Definitely a Heavy sixer as that was the first Atari I played. What is even funnier is that when I think of Atari, one of the first images I think of is always playing basketball on that machine and an old RCA T.V. at my friends apartment. He used to kick my butt bad at that game!!

 

But I stll loved to play Atari, even when getting thumped!

 

[jonfin826]

4-switch woody

[+HatNJ]

Heavy Sixer Atari "woody"

[A.J. Franzman]

when i here the 2600 mentioned, i immediately think of the front of a woodgrain model, with the "Atari 2600" on it.

Wow, ewing92 thinks of a non-existent model!

 

None of the woodgrain models say "2600" on the front -- unless someone wrote it there!

 

For me it was always the first version I had, the light sixer. But now I prefer to think of the heavy sixer.

Edited February 21, 2007 by A.J. Franzman

[MickG]

To me it's definitely the wood-grain 6-switch. It was my first 2600er and the one all my friends had back in the early 80's. When I started a new 2600 collection about a year ago I started it with another 6-switch woody!

[liveinabin]

I think of the junior. The woodgrain model is still a VCS in my mind.

[Prodos8]

Assuming your using 2600 and VCS interchangeably, I'd have to say the light six-switch. That was the one I grew up with. Never had a junior or vader model back then.

[homerwannabee]

I think the 4 switch woody was the most common, so I would probably have that flashing through my mind more than anything.

[AtticGamer]

4-Switch Woodgrain VCS .

Edited March 11, 2007 by Atari_kid

[Vic George 2K3]

Any model besides clones like the Sears Video Arcade and the Coleco Gemini, and besides the Atari 2600 Jr.