RETROSPECT

[atari70s]

Im sitting here bored staring at 601 atari game carts all different being only 18 i wonder what got me hooked to this craze. gee i wonder the new generations retrospect (feelings towards teh 2600 nowadays) if atari released a hadnheld 2600 would sales go up since its like a gameboy. who got teh money to got global with it

[moycon]

It would be really interesting to see what would happen if a hand held 2600 that took the orginal carts was mass produced. I realize there is a hand held 2600 out there...But I think the cost would have to be under $50 to get it in the hands of enough people to see a difference. By that I mean...Would more people start developing 2600 games as a profitable venture. Even to the point of starting up a company that just produced 2600 games? And would they, like we've talked about here before, make games based on what was popular at the time? (Crazy Taxi, Turok, Resident Evil) Would the prices of 2600 games go up on the secondary market? Its a nice thought...I'd doubt it would ever happen tho. Too bad.

[liveinabin]

I honestly don't know how well it'd go down. It seems most misguided people (and an alarming proportion of the gaming press) regard the SNES/ genesis years as the big Retro period.

VCS is all but forgotten (even though all those PS2 owners are STILL just playing tarted up Pole Position - and N64 owners never stopped buying Pitfalls)

[atari70s]

think these new homebrewers on the site makign games and to think if they make these hand helds public imagine on how many of us can et in the door and develop knowledge in making bigger and better video games . outside of atari just casue teh hand held systems and home brew games. just somethign to think about