The Atari 2600: the cartridge family rides again.(Evaluation)

Remember the 1970s? Vietnam, Watergate, stagflation, a flat stock market, bellbottoms, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, gas rationing, and other events that made that decade, at least in retrospect, seem like one of the sillier ones. In the middle of all of that, there was the birth of a trend that's taken for granted today: The home-video game.

The precursor to today's Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox systems was of course, the Atari 2600. Amazingly enough, it's still popular today, with cartridges and complete systems fetching top dollar on auction sites such as eBay. ...

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