Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming

Once upon a time, you could only experience this kind of excitement at the arcade. But in 1977 that changed forever. You, and maybe a friend or a sibling, could instantly teleport from your own living room to a dazzling new world-with nothing more than a small plastic cartridge.

This was the promise of the Atari 2600-and it was delivered in ways no one ever expected. No, the games it put on your TV weren'...