In Stampede, you are a cowboy on a horse running a track roping all of the loose cows. Everyone knows the classic Pac-Man, but the graphics on this were terrible, certainly not like the arcade version. We also purchased Pong and Combat (Combat had 64 games built into one). The two included games were Stampede and Pac -Man. ![]() We had purchased two additional games with the machine, which came with two as well. I remember wanting to open it in the car on the way home. The box was plain and simple, without much printing on the outside. We purchased the entertainment system at K-Mart. We had decided on Atari’s new joy machine. The time had finally come to purchase a “family” gift. Our family had been saving all of their dimes for a little more than a year. According to the plaque, once it was full, you had 50.00 worth of dimes. This plaque had a plastic tube for which you put dimes in. ![]() A few years back, my mom was at a garage sale and for a quarter picked up a plaque that you hang on the wall. Soon, we would be competing in the electronic world of video games. We compete in sports, board games, and even life in general. To think this was all for under 50 dollars. With a full 8 bit processor, over 350 games that attached to your tv, it was sure to allow for hundreds if not thousands of hours of family fun. Do you miss some of your childhood memories? I was seven years old when the Atari 2600 came out.
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