For my birthday, I asked my grandparents if I could have my dad’s old Atari 2600 video computer system. So they sent it to me, and a week later it showed up in the mail. Right when I opened the box (there were actually two boxes) I was surprised and thrilled by how much stuff there actually was. There were games, catalogs & instructions, two joysticks, 2 paddles, 2 driving paddles, a “Video Touch Pad”, and the Atari itself, which also happens to be the rarer 6-switch model.

Some people might see the computer chips in the picture and the socket they fit in. Those are actually games. Well, one is. I could not get anything from two of the chips and I noticed that one of the ones that did nothing looks a lot like an old CPU. The one working chip has casino on it, which is funny because I happen to have an empty cartridge that says casino on it. I think I know where that chip came from. The socket just plugs into the cartridge slot.

P.S. If my grandparents are reading this, thank you so much for the Atari!

The driving paddles.

All of the catalogs and instructions.

The “Video Touch Pad”.

The paddles.

All of the games.

The 6-switch Atari 2600.

The broken and semi-working joysticks.

The chips and their socket.