With a magnificent reproduction of the home console that helped to establish an industry, travel back in time to 1980
Lego's latest video game system recreation is a brick-built Atari 2600 with a collection of iconic carts and that crucial faux wood grain finish, dispelling any doubt that the company is heavily relying on nostalgia to drain the wallets of kids who grew up in the '70s and '80s.
The Atari 2600's initial popularity in September 1977 was slow, in part because of its $199 price tag, which is about comparable to $950 today. The 1980 update to the console, on which Lego's reproduction is based, reduced the bank of toggle switches from six to only four. The 1977 version of the console included six toggle switches for changing settings and accessing game menus.
The Atari 2600 doesn't come with a TV that plays an animated replica of a classic game, unlike the Lego Nintendo Entertainment System that was released back in 2020. Despite being a solitary model intended for exhibition, it has a fascinating secret feature: when you take off the top, a replica of a 1970s-era basement appears, complete with a Lego minifigure spending his life playing those annoying video games.
Though Space Invaders, the 2600's first big hit, isn't included, Lego's Atari 2600 does feature an impressive recreation of the console's infamously uncomfortable Atari joystick, three playable game cartridges—Adventure, Asteroids, and Centipede—that can actually be inserted into the device or kept in a faux wooden shelf, and three buildable vignettes that recreate the characters and scenes from each game. This is presumably our consolation
The 2,532-piece Lego Icons set won't formally go on sale on Lego's website and physical stores until August 1 for $240, although it is currently not available for pre-order.
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SOURCE: gizmodo
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