Atari 2600 Console, Controllers & Games

A home video game console collection featuring the Atari 2600 Video Computer System, specifically the four-switch model with a woodgrain front panel. The console faceplate features printed text labels for power, tv type, left difficulty, video computer system, right difficulty, game select, and game reset. The underside of the console bears a printed mark reading 1978 ATARI, INC. The hardware group includes two Atari CX40 joysticks, a pair of Atari CX30 paddle controllers with yellow adhesive labels reading paddle, a power adapter, and an RF switch box. The collection contains multiple game cartridges from several manufacturers. The cartridges are identified by printed labels: Atari brand titles include E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Asteroids, Yars' Revenge, Haunted House, Basketball, Othello, Arcade Pinball, Combat, Bowling, Night Driver, Slot Racers, Defender, Star Raiders, Space War, Berzerk, Indy 500, Centipede, and Galaxian. Third-party cartridges include Laser Blast and Boxing by Activision; Fathom and Cosmic Ark by Imagic; Donkey Kong by Coleco; Summer Games by Epyx; and M Network titles produced by Mattel Electronics including Space Attack, International Soccer, Super Challenge Football, and Armor Ambush. Adhesive labels on the M Network titles read ? M I 1982 KOREA or ? M I 1982 PHILIPPINES. Included documentation and ephemera consist of an Atari Video Computer System Owner's Manual Model CX2600, an Atari Asteroids Game Program Instructions booklet, two Mattel Electronics Intellivision promotional booklets titled A lot more fun... And a whole lot more!, and a partial retail box for the Coleco version of Donkey Kong.