When gaming was first starting, Atari was helping to lead the way for the masses. Fast forward to today, and it’s still finding popularity in the modern market. To celebrate its 50th Anniversary, Atari is offering a new and highly collectible 2600 cartridge box set. The set is currently available for preorder at an impressive price of $1,000 USD. For those still experiencing nostalgia for the early days of gaming or very enthusiastic collectors, this may seem like a nice piece to add. The box set includes 10 cartridges, though only 100 sets are available for preorder. If Atari still holds such an effect, these sets may all be gone by day’s end. Here are the details.
Atari 50th Anniversary Collectible 2600 Cartridge Box Set
Founded in 1972, Atari is responsible for helping establish the gaming market with titles like Pong and Breakout. While it may not be the powerhouse it once was, the company still possesses a powerful nostalgic grip as it comes up on 50 years of gaming. In response, they’re releasing a collectible 2600 cartridge box set, with over 100 sets available for preorder. The price tag is a whopping $1,000, and it’s unlikely to drop any time soon.
The full set contains ten games, including:
- Adventure
- Asteroids
- Centipede
- Crystal Castles
- Gravitar
- Haunted House
- Missile Command
- Super Breakout
- Warlords
- Yar’s Revenge
When Atari first appeared, people had just barely mastered using coding to get dots to move around a screen. The company took this a step further by using this discovery to make interactive entertainment. The early games were very, very simple by modern standards. Gameplay consisted of action like hitting a square pixel back and forth between two rectangles or leading a yellow square through a brightly colored maze. Many people grew up with these titles, some of which would go on to become the first arcade games. Some of them, such as Asteroids, have been remade several times to keep the action fresh.
Some may say that Atari is over the hill, but it still has a strong community of enthusiastic and nostalgic players behind it. To that end, a lucky 100 will be the first to preorder the collectible 2600 cartridge box set in honor of Atari’s 50-year anniversary… assuming each buyer has 1000 dollars to spare.
