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McDonald’s totally awesome mail-in rebates for Atari VCS, games

For a limited time, McDonald’s will be offering a Whopper-ing $10 mail-in rebate for the Atari VCS (aka 2600) gaming system. I got my hands on the mail-in form from a secret source. I would load it to the Gamertell BBS computer for you to look at but it doesn’t convert to ASCII very well.

In addition to the $10 rebate, the form also offers $3 rebates on 15 great Atari cartridges including…

Doin’ it Atari 2600 style

Naughty productions featuring nudity and sex have helped to drive various industries, including printed books and home video. Yep, you can thank that the porn industry for helping spawn and evolve the development of various video formats that ultimately put that shiny My Little Pony DVD collection on your shelf (soon in HD, I’m sure). more »

Atari 2600 inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame

The National Toy Hall of Fame held a ceremony yesterday morning (November 8, 2007) to induct the Atari 2600 into its list of 38 elite toys. The other toys inducted at the ceremony, held at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, were the kite and Raggedy Andy (Raggedy Ann had been previously more »