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Lego Just Recreated the Atari 2600, Complete With a Stack of Classic Game Cartridges

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Lego Just Recreated the Atari 2600, Complete With a Stack of Classic Game Cartridges

The Lego Atari 2600 video game console.

If there was any doubt that Lego is leaning arduous on nostalgia to empty the pockets of youngsters who grew up within the ‘70s and ‘80s, its latest video game console recreation is a brick-built Atari 2600 that includes a collection of classic carts and that all important faux wood grain finish.

First released in September of 1977, the Atari 2600’s success was a slow burn, partly due to its $199 price tag, which is roughly the equivalent of $950 today. The original 1977 version of the console included a bank of six toggle switches for adjusting settings and navigating game menus, but a new version of the console released in 1980 pared that down to just four switches, which is what Lego’s recreation relies on.

The Lego Atari 2600 video game console revealing a hidden surprise.

Unlike the Lego Nintendo Entertainment System launched again in 2020, the Atari 2600 doesn’t included a TV with an animated recreation of a basic recreation. It’s a standalone mannequin designed to be displayed, but it surely does embrace a enjoyable hidden characteristic: if you slide out the lid, a recreation of a ‘70s-era basement pops up, complete with a Lego minifigure wasting his life by playing those dang video games.

The Lego Atari 2600 video game console's included game carts and buildable 3D vignettes.

Lego’s Atari 2600 does embrace a powerful recreation of the console’s very unergonomic Atari joystick, plus three recreation cartridges that may really be inserted into the console or saved in a pretend wood shelf: Adventure, Asteroids, and Centipede (why not Space Invaders, the 2600’s first huge hit?), and three buildable vignettes recreating characters and scenes from every recreation—which is presumably our comfort prize for this set not together with a buildable TV.

The Lego Atari 2600 video game console's packaging.

The 2,532-piece set, a part of the Lego Icons line, isn’t obtainable for pre-order simply but, however will formally go on sale by Lego’s website and its brick-and-mortar shops beginning on August 1 for $240.

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