Excuse me while I regress

As the festive season kicks into full swing the gaming industry tries to tempt us with slimmer consoles and new fangled next generation games. This is all well and good, but as life accelerates to an unnatural speed around us, we at the UCHG  like to kick back and enjoy the simple gaming pleasures of our old and loyal friend

The ATARI 2600

This Behemoth of a gaming machine was released in 1977 and paved the way for gaming as we know it today! The 2600 brought arcade classics such as Space Invaders, Berserk and Defender into people’s homes! It is so mighty it has been likened to the front end of a Panzer Tank… or a Bread Bin.

The 2600 is a true gaming classic and, as legend has it, demand was so high Atari executives helped man the production lines in order to satisfy the public’s hunger for what was to become the Godfather of all console gaming.

It’s the simplicity of the 2600 that keeps us coming back for more. Too many modern games come complete with a 50 page manual and a learning curve steeper than Rebecca Adlingtons nose! An Atari 2600 game comes complete with a 10 page leaflet outlining the plot and an explanation for what the red button does, which is nearly always shoot, and if not, it’s almost certainly going to be jump. There are no tactics to study, special attacks to learn or even a map to look at. Just pure (at times not so pure) gaming goodness.

So if life starts to get too much for you this Christmas why not whip out your Atari 2600 and challenge your mates to a game of Battle Tanks? and for those of you with no mates. You can alway turn your 2600 controller into a dildo

Stay frosty!