Collection | Atari 2600 - SSJGohan3972's Collection

Collecting for the Atari 2600 is relatively cheap and fun for those who enjoy Retro games.

My first experiences with an Atari 2600 came when my father would occasionally bring his down from the attic during the sleepy summers of my early childhood. While I would associate more with the SNES they purchased me a little later (I believe I was 7-8) I still have fond memories of Missile Command and Donkey Kong on that ancient (even then) machine. Unfortunately even though my father did eventually give me that Atari before I moved out, I lost it and the games in college in an apartment flood (it was a very sad day, I also lost the aforementioned SNES and a PS1).

Relatively recently (within the last few years) I have put some time, effort and of course money into trying to rebuild my old video game collection(s) and one of the ones I've had the most success in is the Atari 2600. The second-hand market for the Atari 2600 is quite healthy, there are hacks and homebrews still being made for the system (and its successors) and you can still find most of even the best games for the system for relatively cheap.

My current Atari 2600 Collection, hoping to make a new cover for River Raid soon.

My current Atari 2600 collection:
Adventure
Air-Sea Battle
Asteroids
Breakout
Combat
Defender
Dig Dug
Dodge 'Em
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Golf
Haunted House
Home Run
Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom
Joust
Missile Command
Night Driver
Pac-Man
Pitfall!
River Raid
Space Invaders
Swordquest: Earthworld
Yar's Revenge

Dragonfire (not pictured)
Pole Position (not pictured)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (not pictured)

The last three I need to make covers for as I haven't found any on thecoverproject.net or other sources.

My Atari 2600 dream wishlist:

Original Releases:
Donkey Kong
Mario Bros.
Frogger
Centipede
Galaxian
Swordquest: Fireworld
Swordquest: Waterworld
Superman
Custer's Revenge
Spider-Man
Pitfall 2: The Lost Caverns
Venture
Atlantis
Demon Attack
Cosmic Ark
Star Voyager
Phoenix

Homebrews:
Halo 2600
Princess Rescue (Super Mario Bros. 2600)
Space Rocks
Blinky Goes Up
Dungeon
FlaPing
Medieval Mayhem
Pac-Man 4K
Rainbow Invaders
Thrust+ Platinum
Warring Worms: The Worm (Re)Turns
Colony 7

Hacks:
Adventure Plus
Combat Redux
Defender Arcade
Galaxian Arcade
Pac-Man Arcade
Space Invaders Arcade
Wolfenstein VCS: The Next Mission
Venture II: The Abysmal Abyss

Future Atari 2600 Collection Plans:
I need to get an actual Atari 2600 to play these (I am currently just emulating the games I have but I want to play the actual games with the actual controllers). I also have an Atari Flashback 3 so I have a lot of the games on there as well.
I plan to slowly pickup games from my wishlist but not put a lot of money into it, just if good deals come by.

You can purchase Atari games on Amazon, Ebay and the like. Also game trading sites like GameTZ.com are quite useful. If you're interested in homebrew and hack games, reproductions and the like, AtariAge.com is an incredible resource.