Atari 800 Spotted at Children's Museum

[Fres]

My wife and I took our two kids to The Children's Museum in Indianapolis this morning and to my great surprise and amazement, they had a nearly perfect (well, museum quality) Atari 800 exhibited in a display case. This portion of the exhibit included a Donkey Kong cartridge and a Pac-Man (both complete with manuals), and some other items consistent with that era (the Pac-Man era, as they called it).

 

The exhibit was part of a very brief chronical of video games (from Pong to Xbox 360). The Atari was not playable, but a Pong, Pac-Man (arcade), NES, and Playstation were incorporated into an extensive playable kiosk (much of it appeared to be sim/emulated. Also, there was a 4 player Xbox 360 Setup (with the game "Cars" playing).

 

Mostly, I was surprised (and pleased) to see the Atari 800, rather than an Atari 2600, or Apple II, or Commodore 64, which were vastly more popular in this area during that era than the Atari 800. The 800 was my first computer (well second, if you count the Timex Sinclair 1000).

[oesii]

That's pretty cool. I often find when classic computers or consoles are spotted at exhibits or museums that it was a forum member here or at Digital Press that put it together. Hope someone lets us know who was responsible

[tep392]

This is an old thread, but I thought I would share a photo of the 800 in the exhibit. I visited the childrens museum with my family this weekend and was surprised to see this 800 on display.

[R4ngerM4n]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

[+therealbountybob]

This is an old thread, but I thought I would share a photo of the 800 in the exhibit. I visited the childrens museum with my family this weekend and was surprised to see this 800 on display.

A800 got, Trivial Pursuit got (and the a8 ver is fun too)... now where's my A-team lunch box?

[tep392]

This is an old thread, but I thought I would share a photo of the 800 in the exhibit. I visited the childrens museum with my family this weekend and was surprised to see this 800 on display.

A800 got, Trivial Pursuit got (and the a8 ver is fun too)... now where's my A-team lunch box?

 

Have any of these from the 70's? Please don't tell us you have the JJ Walker doll.

[Almost Rice]

Which autobot is that? I might have it.

[+Stephen]

I have a clean copy of the Saturday Night Fever album

[JohnBuell]

Which autobot is that? I might have it.

 

I can't tell without a good closeup, but it looked like Slag to me. My brother and I only ever had one Dinobot each. I had Slag, he had Swoop.

[Almost Rice]

I can't tell without a good closeup, but it looked like Slag to me. My brother and I only ever had one Dinobot each. I had Slag, he had Swoop.

 

I never got dinobots. My last transformer was Omega Supreme. I stopped after that.

[tep392]

Here's a hi res crop. It's Slag.

[kb9snl]

Still on display as of last Tuesday. There is a cool early 90's display too with a Game Boy and some other mostly mario-related odds and ends.

[WestofHouse]

Have any of these from the 70's? Please don't tell us you have the JJ Walker doll.

 

I had the Saturday NIght Fever album (It was actually my mom's but I played it more than she did.).

 

I also had a Kryptonite Rock!! Once I chipped two small pieces of the glow-in-the-dark coating off and glued them to the face of my Jawa figure in hopes of making his eyes glow. Like most of my childhood schemes, it worked much better in my head than in practice.