0009 This Atari game console predates the Atari 2600

[@geoffreyreuther5260]

Having worked at CompUSA for 11 years, I can confirm that's exactly how the packaging looked as soon as we got it from the manufacturer.

[@FnordOok]

I miss CompUSA, they were the last place in town to get misc. stuff like thermal compound locally where I am.

[@lindoran]

I worked there when I was in trade school, in the parts department, basically every thing in there was low mark up high value items we would get all the questions directed at us. we worked right off the PC repair bay and handled all the inside parts orders as well. I spent a lot of time counting parts. It was a ok job not great I am certain 17 year old Dave thought it was a terrible job but he had not worked in tellicom yet lol 😂

[@carolinaeric8500]

Yep definitely! I worked at a CompUSA in the early 2000s and I can remember this packaging and also getting boxes and boxes of these like these fans and wondering how we were going to sell them all lol

[@geoffreyreuther5260]

@@carolinaeric8500 that's where we in the tech department came to the rescue. We'd always pick products with beat up boxes when we needed an off the shelf part to fix something.

[@carolinaeric8500]

@@geoffreyreuther5260 Yep, that’s true! I had an odd career when I was there, I started out in the tech department as a tech and then was made a “network specialist” and sold mainly wireless networks and did onsite installs. In between that I did some stocking. I left in 2004 just as things started to getting bad

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Atari: There are no user serviceable parts inside Adrian: Hold my Dirt Soda. 🤣🤣🤣

[@225Perfect]

I first read that as "There are no serviceable parts inside Adrian..."

[@The-Weekend-Warrior]

No user adjustable parts.... "Challenge accepted" :D

[@RetailArchaeology]

RIP CompUSA and Fry's. Great video as always!

[@BEdmonson85]

Long live Micro Center!? =P

[@MinorLG]

Circuit city

[@BastetFurry]

ESCOM and Vobis for us Germans. Now all we have left is shitty Mediamarkt and Saturn... ;.;

[@marknesselhaus4376]

Oh how I miss CompUSA 😃

[@robwebnoid5763]

RIP Fry's also. And RIP Incredible Universe before it. Bought lots of stuff at both companies, yet at the same building, separated by the span of time.

[@r.l.royalljr.3905]

Adrian: "Hey everyone, I love the Haribos but please don't flood my mailbox with sweets, they're not good for me" The Internet: *immediately floods Adrian's mailbox with sweets*

[@kasamikona]

21:56 that scan line dimming is actually an effect of the monitor, sort of. When the paddle goes off the left side it's putting a non-black signal inside the horizontal blanking interval. The monitor's black level correction circuit gets confused and shifts the whole signal downwards to compensate. The correction isn't meant to happen on a line-by-line basis and doesn't respond super quick, so it gradually dims down and back up again.

[@aaronedwards1239]

"You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!" -Willam from Mallrats

[@GC1CEO]

The Atari is in really good shape.. never seen one looking that good without being in a museum display

[@kins749]

Definitely a second video on the Video Pinball please, I love the pre-VCS discrete logic systems

[@iroll]

Not being able to see Magic Eye figures is actually a great screening tool for mild amblyopia (lazy eye); I have a couple of friends with otherwise excellent vision who found this out. I think that there's exercises that can strengthen the weak eye for mild amblyopia. SPOILERS BELOW: The first one is some kind of space ship, I think; the 2nd one is an upturned hand holding a ball; the 3rd is two toy drummers; the fourth is a face or a mask with a big nose.

[@yadabub]

The last might be the head of a bird. It's implied by the background graphics. The front cover contains a woven pattern beneath the text. What about the colored thread image, is it only abstract 3D?

[@JustACupOfCoffeePLZ]

I used to be able to see these things instantly a few years ba... A couple decades ago. Now I couldn't make out a thing and that horrified me, but looking at some easy hi-res ones first woke the muscle memory back up :)

[@korishev]

Also, the "hidden image" is listed on the back of the postcard. The first one (the one with just lines) is supposed to be 3 monsters. 10:03 you can clearly see it.

[@korishev]

Sorry, that's the one after just the lines..

[@korishev]

Nope, I had it right the first time. just the lines. Need sleep :)

[@loughkb]

You kind of asked, so I thought I'd answer. :-) Balun is a concatenation of Balanced and Unbalanced. Usually used to impedance match a balanced system like twinlead or a symetrical dipole, to an unbalanced system like coax. So it's pronounced Bal Un with the short form of the A vowel.

[@Zerkbern]

The key to viewing magic Eye is to overcome your brains natural tendency to focus on the page. You need to focus on a point in the distance, say a wall a few feet away. Then put the magic eye item in front of your field of vision but don't change your focus. Eventually it will just pop into focus for you

[@pipschannel1222]

I would always squint a little and then move a little further away to be able to see them. But after doing ten or something I would get rather dizzy. I don't think these things were that great for one's eyes. Then again I may've been doing it all wrong ;-)

[@cpm1003]

Thanks Mr. Pitt!

[@fluffycritter]

When I was a kid I always had fun staring at chain-link fences and making the links overlap, and that is how I ended up being really good at seeing Magic Eye posters back in the day.

[@cellarboy72]

People with Amblyopia (commonly known as ugh “lazy eye” are often literally incapable of seeing magic eye patterns because it requires the use of Stereopsis to see the image, requiring the fusion of images from the two eyes. Amblyopes has such an overwhelming dominance in one eye that they a) have a neurological loss of vision in the Amblyopic eye B) often have visual suppression of the vision in the Amblyopic eye when the non-Amblyopic eye is open C) often have little to no Stereopsis. Not the same, out of interest, as a lack of depth perception which you can still have even with one eye due to other visual cues that the brain understands as depth.

[@synthoelectro]

I believe I messed up my eyes because they go out of focus sometimes, because of those things back in the 90s.

[@stonent]

I never saw the Magic Eye pictures until one day I was at a store and they had one mounted in a glass frame and I saw a reflection of the shelf that was behind me in the glass. As soon as my eyes focused on the shelf reflection it was like someone flipped a switch and I immediately saw the 3D image floating in front of me.

[@SmilyTheMare]

i remember the compusa in allston/brighton ma, this video brought me back. thanks for that blast from the past adrian

[@The-Weekend-Warrior]

Adrian: "This could go a little faster"... Ball: shifts back to second gear and floors the pedal :))))

[@VeryWetPaint]

We owned the Sears "Tele-Games" version of that Video Pinball console. Low batteries could cause fascinating malfunctions to occur, which inspired my brother to hook it up to a variable DC power supply and intentionally adjust the voltage to cause more glitches. We got it into strange modes by starting a game and temporarily reducing the voltage and raising it again: sometimes it would play breakout where the bricks behaved like the basket from its basketball game, or pinball flippers would appear in its "breakaway" game.

[@joshpayne4015]

@10:56 is two wind-up robots that seem like they would be playing the drums that each of them has hanging off the front of them. The one on the left is facing right, the one on the right is sort of facing forward. This one was more difficult to focus in on than the couple of magic eye cards that preceded it.

[@6581punk]

11:13 I remember having an RDS (random dot stereogram?) application for the Amiga. Load in a normal image and it would convert it for you. I could view them fine, fairly limited 3D due to the colours involved.

[@patrickelliott2169]

Honestly, hated those things. Basic problem is that you "could" use the same math, to some extent, to create ones which worked if you "crossed you eyes", but they never did it, maybe because, when you could make them work the ones where you artificially separate them did better for making images? Not sure. But the net result of this is that the only why I was ever able to get my eyes to "see" them was using a reflection trick - generally this meant having a white shirt on, the stereogram being behind glass, and my focusing on the shirt - this caused your focal point to diverge enough that the image would, usually "snap into place". I never could manage it, ever, when trying to just relax and unfocus my gaze.

[@squeakonline]

@@patrickelliott2169 yes! There were cross eyed versions and diverged eyed versions. I can also see the cross eyes ones easier and clearer too. They're more in focus. But like you said, most of them, including the Magic Eye series were diverged eye type. I read somewhere that they found more people could see them that way. If you view them the wrong way round then the 3d is reversed. Items push into the page rather than pop out.

[@squeakonline]

I also had the amiga rds program. Probably still do actually

[@ovalteen4404]

That gives you an image at least. But true 3D would require it to know the actual depth of each pixel. It's kind of like the 3D movies that came out recently, where the 3D part was limited to the CGI parts instead of actually filming the scenes with stereo cameras to make an actual 3D experience. So the people and actual props always looked flat.

[@VenomStryker]

OMG the Magic Eye thing is hilarious! I remember Mallrats where the guy stared at the board for hours and couldn't see the image but everyone that walked by saw a sailboat within a few seconds.....lmao.

[@3800scgp]

YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY! OVER THERE, THAT'S JUST A GUY IN A SUIT!

[@Ramdileo_sys]

Kosmo Kramer: Ahh yes that's 3D Art .. computers generate them.. "Big computers".. 😂 .... Blur your eyes like you're staring straight to the picture and keep your eyes unfocused 🥴.... or is it "deep focus" 🤯........ anyway do not staring too long.. or i mean.. look what it happen to poor Mr. Pitt 😳 >> kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4XdZ3iLbJ6Gfa8

[@ctrlaltrees]

Oh man, Video Pinball! I've had one of these on my ebay watchlist for the longest time. Need to get someone in the US to hook me up with one for the collection at a reasonable price 😁

[@prodos8]

I remember getting one of these for Christmas back in '79. I told my dad I wanted an atari video game system, the VCS/2600. Well he bought this, atari pinball, instead. :( I did rather did like it but it wasn't the same. Finally picked up the VCS/2600 in 1981. :)

[@BottIsNotABot]

Magic Eye - A daily newspaper in the UK used to publish these weekly for a number of years. I could never ever see the hidden picture. I had corrective surgery around when I was around 12/13 for double squint (two lazy eyes), your comment now makes me understand why I could never decrypt the images!

[@chrisnizer1885]

The chip you weren't able to identify is an AMI 8520 Mac. It is a Complex Interface Adapter chip which handles serial, parallel, keyboard, and other BIOS functions. Thanks for the video my friend, good stuff indeed!

[@awilliams1701]

I miss compUSA, not as much as micro center (which isn't near me anymore), but still

[@CapnPicard]

10:50 looks like two wooden drummer-boy Christmas tree ornaments 10:59 Man's face with a REALLY long 3d nose pointing out at you.

[@H0lyman01]

10:20 - A hand holding a ball.

[@michaelmarkham658]

At 9:59 it looks like a flying squirrel with its arm and legs spread out, but I can't see the head. Not sure what that is suppose to be.

[@BigHushAffiliate]

I just bought one at a flea market for $10 USD today. It is missing the video pinball label and the back connection caved in. The power button might need some TLC too. I really want to refurbish it but no idea where to start.

[@RoyHess666]

10:38 I can feel you, I also only have 1 good eye and 1 almost unuseable eye

[@goddamnfuturama]

Anyone else who just remembered Mallrats?? Oh, it's a sailboat. 😂

[@dadecoza]

no it's a schooner.

[@Wildeheart79]

Say, would you like a chocolate covered pretzel? :-)

[@omegahelix]

came here to say this

[@fluffycritter]

I'm usually really good at seeing Magic Eye images (and was obsessed with them in the 90s and experimented with making them myself, including doing them as a real-time 3D rendering process), but KZbin's compression combined with the angle you're holding them at makes these ones really hard to see.

[@nickwallette6201]

Huh. A sail boat.

[@fluffycritter]

@@nickwallette6201 It’s a schooner

[@randomguydoes2901]

i see these easily on this laptop in 480p in a small window

[@redgrain3914]

The Magic Eye thing is two wind-up toy soldiers hitting drums. You ain't missing much. I'm more impressed that it still works at like 240p, on a tiny screen. Good job, 90s computer optical illusion.

[@daveloomis]

10:51 Is two guys drumming. The one before was a hand holding a ball. Couldn't quite figure the one before that. Maybe a spaceship or a racing boat or something.

[@phr3dmcc0y]

Maybe those pin things are USB header extensions?

[@loughkb]

Oh hey, a side benefit on those plastic extensions is the end is about the right diameter for some small nuts. They're handy for starting a nut down inside a chassis. Especially on the old Heathkit kits.

[@redace001]

Adrian, try this.... Put your fingers together infront of your eyes tip to tip. Now look at an object, say your monitor on your desk. You should see the "hotdog" form, floating between your fingers. If you can see that, you can see a magic eye art. A handy way to force your eyes to converge properly, is to put a piece of glass over the magic eye art. When you stare at your reflection in the glass, move it farther/closer from you. If you find the right spot, the 3D image will "pop", as it will match the focus of the reflection. There are some programs available to generate them easily. Might be worth a try, (makes for a fun video topic) If you know what it's supposed to look like, perhaps it will be easier for you to see one. Good luck! :D

[@larrywilliams8010]

@5:55 that name is "balun", which stands for balanced - unbalanced, used to convert an unbalanced transmission line to a balanced, and vice versa.

[@greenaum]

And he's pronouncing it fine in the video.

[@neillthornton1149]

@@greenaum Not really, the bal portion should sound like "balanced", more like a long A.

[@greenaum]

@@neillthornton1149 Nope, as in "sitting on the dock of the". A vowel followed by a single consonant followed by a vowel is generally pronounced as the capital-letter version. "Acorn" is another. "Accord" not, since double-consonant.

[@domramsey]

9:55 Geotetric lines appear as 3D polygons 10:00 Some kind of animal? 10:15 Someone holding a ball in their hand 10:45 Two men facing each other, playing bongos 10:50 A head with a very pointy nose coming right out of the page The difficult part of these was often not 'seeing' the image but trying to figure out what the semi-random 3D blobs are meant to actually be.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

OK that's amazing you could even see if through a video!!

[@domramsey]

@@adriansdigitalbasement2 The angle and glare make it a bit more difficult but I just angled my screen to compensate. 🙂

[@pezjohnson]

Magic eye pictures: The first page was just those lines in 3D, Second picture I can get an image but can't really describe it, Third is a hand with a ball in it, Fourth is two drummers drumming in the magic eye picture. Fifth was a head with a large nose. I was surprised that I could make them out on the video. Thanks for the video.

[@christophertstone]

They are crazy hard to see at odd angles. Adrian, please hold them straight-on if you're going to literally ask people to look at them!

[@johnsonlam]

The red round one is not only extension, it's also can adjust knobs inside TV (some TV have VR inside the chassis but a hole outside) which have saw-tooth like edge around it, I've use that more than 30 years ago, now it's hard to find, wish I save some old stuff in the old days.

[@hotw411h]

I like your speaking and old stuffs that makes me back to 90’s!

[@AdrianCastravete]

Aw, nice! Never seen these Magic Eyes in books. 10:05 a butterfly; 10:20 is a nice one, a hand holding a ball; 10:46 two people playing the drums. Can't make sense of the fourth one, because of the light glare.

[@MinhasA]

For the magic eye I had to take a screenshot with my phone, but I saw that I think we're 2 people with super round heads drumming lol.. oh how I love 90s stuff!!

[@dr.rotwang]

FYI for any who are curious. The Atari C-380 will run off of a standard Atari 2600 power supply, 9v 500ma.

[@gmirwin]

And there are aftermarket power supplies available for the 2600 so availability shouldn't be a problem.

[@horusfalcon]

Yep, you're having an LGR moment with that little faux-woodgrain console, huh? (Clint Basinger's love for woodgrain is well known...)😁

[@FIX97]

10:50 almost looks like 2 people standing shaking hands? there clearly is something connecting both but honestly its really hard to tell what that is from this low quality shot, I just assume its arms or something

[@Renville80]

I have fairly decent close up vision but have never been able to ‘see’ the embedded images in the Magic Eye pictures. 😒

[@radman999]

It's pronounced "bah lun". A contraction for BALanced-UNbalanced. Love your show!

[@Andrew_Sparrow]

Was about to post the same :) Balun

[@saunderscvids]

I grew up with the grey version of this Atari. Many hours playing this system on an old black and white TV. Can't wait to see a video on this unit.

[@geezerdiamond]

I did pause the video on the Magic Eye page with the purple dot-pattern one to see if I can still see these! It took me a couple of minutes but got there. I’d forgotten how abstract the “pictures” are sometimes; I was hoping for something like a dolphin but it appears to be an open hand, palm-up, with a ball sat on it. Bizarre!

[@user-pi5xz5je4y]

10:45 I can't really see this one because it's not fullscreen and it's also always more difficult to see the hidden image on a screen compared to a printed version.

[@rebelrogue42]

I have a lazy eye as well and I remember that craze from the 90’s. It was just a random pattern of colors as far as I could see.

[@MrScotttraynor]

the atari pad went? with the "Basic programming cartride" for the 2600

[@sa3270]

Exactly, it was not meant for action games!

[@nobuyukinyuu]

I was working at CompUSA right up until the year they shut down, and they were still selling coolers that looked just like that in the same style packaging. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe we were trying to pass them off as being useful as a southbridge cooler. RIP CompUSA. The only place anything like it now remaining is microcenter...

[@SpiritualHearts1]

Adrian, I am colour blind and I could not see anything in those magic eye postcards either. Keep up the great work!

[@Hidyman]

Pork Soda FTW! 9:08 Pilot G2 is a great pen but they will leak in your pocket if they aren't retracted. 9:50 Mallrats (It was really a boat in the movie) If anyone is interested, you can pause the video and look "through" the pictures and they will become apparent.

[@jeffymooch]

I always called it a BayLun. A friend in the antenna installation business said it is a ba-lun (a like bat) as a portmanteau of balanced/unbalanced. Those little adjustment tools we used to call "diddle sticks" in the cable industry. (Not particularly PC)

[@greenaum]

You're right and so is the pronunciation in the video. It just sounds weird with a flat "a" sound. Even though it is a portmanteau. It's like "bacon", even though that's not a portmanteau of anything, that's just how you pronounce words like that. Or "mason" or "Jason" or "pagan" or lots of other examples we can all think up on a wet afternoon.

[@jk743]

10:50 it's two people facing each other. The left one seems to drop some kind of bucket, the right one still holds it. Also the left one has a key like from an old metal wind up doll at his back.

[@nebular-nerd]

Those PCB things seem to have different pins/sockets bridged looking at them as you knock them around the desk. Maybe some kind of configuration jumpers?

[@tonygibson1671]

I believe the 10 pin header/socket adaptors were used to to change the pin out of a serial port header on older main boards. At one time there was two different serial header pin outs and two different serial port ribbon cable configurations. If you look closely, there might be two different configurations on those adaptors.

[@Doug_in_NC]

I love the look of that Atari console! I’m not normally a big wood grain guy, but it really works well here.

[@hellhound-si5oz]

Miss going up to Fry's in Wilsonville Oregon

[@YogSothoth1969]

Adrian, at 10:54, where you have these little brown worm-like objects in the 3d picture, there are two figures, that have a key on the back, that you turn to tighten the spring of the clockwork inside and when released they drum with their arms on a little drum in front of them, till the spring lost its energy and needs to be turn on again... sorry for my description, I am from Germany :-D I will check if I see other pictures, fortunately i am able to see those images. Michael

[@kingforaday8725]

I have one of these Atari C380 . Last time I had it out it didnt work! Hmmmm, now where did I put it???

[@nyccollin]

Video starts at 20:20

[@oglordbrandon]

I had to Practice, but I can see these Magic Eye illusions and other 3d images quite well. You have to sot of take manual control of the convergence of your eyes and make them toe in and toe out. This is what was on the pages you showed: Gradient and lines at 9:55 = those same lines but in 3D Purple orange paint daubs at 10:05 = Butterfly spaceship? Cyan magenta barf at 10:17 = Open hand holding a ball Purple and peach Snakes at 10:48 = 2 Wind up drummer toys (like Pixar's tin toy) Yellow and black noise at 10:59 = a Face with a big nose.

[@sumplais]

I use to go to the CompUSA at Jantzen Beach all the time for computer goodies...Frys didn't open up in Wilsonville till 1997 and I didn't use to go that far south into (and beyond) Portland

[@milkapeismilky5464]

Magic eye. IT'S A SAILBOAT!

[@knghtbrd]

Not seeing anyone immediately say so but check the pinout on those PCBs with male/female headers. They might not all be the same. I anticipate they are jumper blocks to configure wiring, basically like the ones used in the Apple II Super Serial Card, only intended that you install the correct one.

[@kajyakuzonik9130]

Adrian... for those Magic Eye pictures: 1) Cut two 1/4 sq.in squares out of paper, trying to make them as identical as possible. 2) Now, place these two squares about one inch apart somewhere on a page you want to look at. 3) Next, try to go cross-eyes and while looking at those two squares, try to make them overlap with your eyes. 4) Once you've locked your vision you can start looking around the page and a "3D" outline should be revealed. If this doesn't seem to work then try to adjust the distance between the squares (my memory is bad but it should be somewhere between 1/2 and 2 inches.) It helps also if the squares are oriented the same way. Also, the two squares can be almost any shape (even dots drawn with a marker on the page itself), but it usually helps if they are identical.

[@ropersonline]

5:50: Balun is short for balancer-unbalancer, but I'm not familiar with this type. Maybe it's only called a balun by analogy. I would expect literal baluns to come in pairs. Maybe someone else knows more.

[@fearlessfreep]

I just sold mine on eBay a few weeks ago. There were two different versions of this item - the other one is more beige colored.

[@misterkite]

Interesting. I own a CTG-15, which is Nintendo's second console from 1977, and have been wanting to do a composite mod for it. This might give me the impetus to do it.

[@kevin34ct]

CompUSA became Tiger Direct. I had a physical store back in the 90's an early 2000's where I bought a lot of my Atari supplies. This was in Warwick, RI.

[@MonochromeWench]

As a kid i had to do training to try to fix my lazy eye. sort of worked but really meant that i was able to consciously control it. As such it gave me the ability to almost instantly see magic eye images as i could very easily get the needed overlapping image

[@GarthBeagle]

Magic Eye @ 10:16 is an open hand holding a small ball 👀

[@daspolemon]

In that stereogram I can see: 1. Geometric lines are just 3D, no image. 2. Futuristic fighter-plane / space ship. 3. A right hand holding a ball. 4. Two little drummers. Like tin-soldiers, the left one has a wind-up key sticking out from his back. 5. A face with a very long nose.

[@robwebnoid5763]

I have the Coleco Telstar Ranger game console which is from the same year/era as the C380, bought maybe 1977-78. Then we bought the Atari VCS 2600 a year or so later. Still have both of them today. Never knew the c380.

[@eDoc2020]

I wonder if those weird boards with the connectors are game cartridges for some archaic video game console. I know early analog consoles had different games by reconfiguring some of the circuitry, so maybe each of those boards is connected differently.

[@gregcoons7308]

Awesome donation by Retro Rabbit! More Atari!

[@cybermaus]

Went to CompUSA (and Fry's) whenever I visited HQ in USA. And then one visit, there was a (few weeks old) note on the door. Not to me, prospective customers, but to employees: "We're bankrupt, don't bother coming back to work" or something along those lines.....

[@BrainSlugs83]

Nice! I had a video pinball just like that that I picked up second hand and fixed* in the early 90s (*: no bad chips or anything fancy like what you do, but like rewired the broken RF cable), but it was grey on color (not black / woodgrain). The games on the device are not the same as the VCS/2600 video pinball on my unit.

[@UpLateGeek]

LOL literally just the other day I was looking at spare 256K x 1 DRAM chips from one of your various vintage chip vendors over there in the US, and someone donates a bunch to your channel. I guess I don't need to send you some spares to keep Rammy happy! And I'm in a similar boat with the magic eye stuff. Except mine's not exactly a lazy eye, one's just slightly misaligned because they didn't quite get my eye surgery 100% perfect when I was very young. They got close though, so I only occasionally get people looking at my eyes wondering if I'm looking at them or not.

[@waynegoodwin3217]

Maybe better with a Beer or Bourbon I reckon... Great two channels buddy, I try and watch all uploads. Cheers from Australia

[@Dorff_Meister]

We didn't have Fry's nearby - so I had to settle for CompUSA. But when we travelled, I would always lobby to visit a Fry's. RIP Fry's.

[@750kv8]

10:37 - These are similar to the kind of stereo images that require crossed eyes for viewing. Now, these require crossed eyes too but not to a large extent, only slightly. And you should to see depth variations in the pattern, forming a 3-dimensional shape. 21:50 - It seems to me that the bat goes right out into the HI, probably messing with the hsync pulse and the chroma burst. 😁

[@MikeLynx]

The last magic eye looks like two clockwork soldiers playing drums.

[@sa3270]

I used to go to CompUSA and Fry's, both were within 3 miles of me. I bought TVs and computer stuff from both of them. Not anymore!

[@greenaum]

I once read a review of Fry's in a British computer magazine. It seemed like Heaven...

[@sa3270]

@@greenaum It was like heaven in its early days.

[@strayblackcatsmeow]

Never had issues with the 2600 keypad controller. It did what it was supposed to. Overlays assigned the keys. I only remember two games that used them, Atari basic programming and a space shooting game.

[@keith_5584]

When you said Atari Video Pinball, Ben Heck Sneezed in 4 bit B&W.

[@kingearwig]

The magic eye picture you asked about appears to be 2 simplified human shapes with a ball.

[@YogSothoth1969]

Adrian, at 10:40 with these blue-reddish patterns, you can see an open hand holding a ball inside its palm.. Michael

[@8BitRetroJournal]

I have an old 1970's Pong game and it has built-in composite. I think it came with an external RF modulator that you hooked to the composite...I guess back then composite wasn't as valuable.

[@lauram5905]

You’ve had a couple of modded machines on here before where if the modded RC network from the pre-RF stage wasn’t correct, it would result in that kind of dim/quiet output, I wonder if this would be a good lesson on impedance matching, if that’s what the problem is

[@bweebar]

@ 9:59 That's Buck Rogers' ship

[@PriorUniform721]

Spoilers --v Is this the first video w/ spoilers in the comments? 9:55 I don't see an image, but the lines have a layered 3D effect 10:00 Mountains in the background? I can see the mid and background but I lose it when I try to focus on the foreground. 10:14 A hand holding a ball as clear as day. 10:45 Two figures with drums, maybe windup toys. 10:59 A head with elongated features, really long nose, deep eye sockets.

[@fragglet]

If I was a pinball table manufacturer when this came out ... I don't think I would have been too worried

[@bobbofly]

Had a 5200 with a dead keypad once. pulled the ten-key pad from an old ma bell button phone, traced out the button circuit, connected to the 5200 controller & mounted the whole production into the gutted chassis of a 2600 console, using polyester gelcoat (basically bondo minus the talc powder). Turned out to be the perfect laptop controller & worked an absolute TREAT!!! 😁😁😁

[@organiccold]

LGR will love that woodgrain haha

[@notneb82]

I am surprised that I can see the magic eye patterns on the computer screen. Figured it wouldn't work without the actual print in front of me. Can't tell what the first one is, the second one looks like a hand holding a ball, the third one looks like a couple of bizarre-looking people with either drums in front of them or some kind of basket.

[@CeitDeVitto]

I remember the first handheld game called the Blip the Digital game (it was a strange mechanical version of Pong) -- It was based on Pong and came out in 1977 -- My Nana bought it for me for Christmas. The were not cheap either. I know she bought it for me after winning Bingo! LOL I had won the Atari 2600 Kit which was also expensive . My favorite game was space invaders. This looks like a lot of fun. I hope you can bring it back to life again.

[@Dark_eVader]

For the magic eye images, the first looks like some weird floating "space ship" or maybe just a flying towel, 2nd is an upturned hand with a ball on the palm, third are a couple of wind-up toy drummers with one facing to the right and the other facing towards the viewer and the last is a strange yellow head with a particularly long nose and sunken eyes.

[@RayHartrayrayrayray]

I have one of those with the original box, except the case is a lighter tan color! Very fun game, more addictive than you would expect given how old it is.