
“Nowadays we’ve become accustomed to the notion of relatively equal, competing video game consoles vying for gamer dollars. But back in the day, between approximately 1977 and 1983, the Atari VCS — better known as the 2600, was the uncontested ruler of the video gaming universe. Its contemporaries, like the Intellivision or Colecovision, may have been technically superior in some ways — but they couldn’t match the 2600′s popularity and selection of games… Many of these were truly exceptional, and were it not for the fact that it was up against a number of clearly superior systems, these games might have saved the 2600. Here’s a selection of the 10 best of these cartridges.” w/ photos








