Ah, the Atari 2600. The venerable video gaming system that the children of the 70s and 80s grew up with. It may be obsolete, but it's certainly not forgotten. It's still a favorite of classic gamers everywhere, its classic games like Pitfall, Yar's Revenge, Enduro, and Kaboom bringing avid gamers to bring back the old classics to play them again and again.

Nowadays, it's hard to buy an Atari and games for it unless you search local thrift shops and garage sales, to sift through people's pasts and find these antiques of the gaming community. Fortunately, Activision is bringing back collections of their games for use on today's computers. Activision's Atari Action Packs each give you 15 seperate blasts from the past that you can play in a window and without bothering to hook up the old Atari. Perhaps certain enthusiasts enjoy the nostalgia of fiddling with the wires and cables, and enjoy the feeling of the Atari joystick in their hands, but then there's people who just like to play the games, and don't mind if they must use a Gravis Gamepad or a keyboard. And now, other people have been developing true Atari emulation programs, that are compatible with a wider range of software.