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System 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 74809	The weirdest thing happened a couple of years ago. I had an Atari 2600 as a kid...only had Centipede and F-14 for it though...I gave it to a charity jumble sale when i was living in London back in 1989 when i got a Master System for my birthday....roll on to 1998...I am now living near Bristol (the other side of the country) with my Dad and I have developed a love of retro gaming...my Dad was at a carboot sale and came across an Atari 2600 for £5...so he bought it and gave it to me...I was thrilled at having one again...but the weirdness kicked in...the boxhad a big diagonal tear across the front repaired with aging yellow sticky tape...just as the box with mine had...it came with two games....Centipede and F-14!!...highly curious I turned over the console...and yes...there was our old house number and postcode etched onto the bottom!!! The danm thing made a 9 year journey across the country and ended up back in my hands again!! What are the odds of that!!!

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tick64 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 713	that is amazing. Seriously, I'm not being sarcastic but that is amazing
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System
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Wow, what are the chances of that happening?
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CanadianWeirdAlFan
8 years 8 months ago
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Cool. A little creepy, but cool.
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tonewinwy 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 989	That is COOL.
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System
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Most people don't believe me when I tell them...but it is true!!
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Nicole239
8 years 8 months ago
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ok that is creepy!! but I believe in that kind of stuff.
kept your Atari!
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System 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 74809	Atari chooses its owners. _____________________________________________________ "I rarely wear underwear, and when i do its always something unusual."

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SkinnyDre
8 years 8 months ago
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NightCrawl Her! wrote:
Atari chooses its owners.

LOL! So true
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System
8 years 8 months ago
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That's the best thing to happen.

How can you get an Atari in your hands like that?

Amazing.
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jetfire426
8 years 8 months ago
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wow.. that is trippy.. yet amazing and cool...
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Wordplay
8 years 8 months ago
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The Force is mighty in you, Luke.
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xjourneyescapex 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 153	magnius wrote: The weirdest thing happened a couple of years ago. I had an Atari 2600 as a kid...only had Centipede and F-14 for it though...I gave it to a charity jumble sale when i was living in London back in 1989 when i got a Master System for my birthday....roll on to 1998...I am now living near Bristol (the other side of the country) with my Dad and I have developed a love of retro gaming...my Dad was at a carboot sale and came across an Atari 2600 for £5...so he bought it and gave it to me...I was thrilled at having one again...but the weirdness kicked in...the boxhad a big diagonal tear across the front repaired with aging yellow sticky tape...just as the box with mine had...it came with two games....Centipede and F-14!!...highly curious I turned over the console...and yes...there was our old house number and postcode etched onto the bottom!!! The danm thing made a 9 year journey across the country and ended up back in my hands again!! What are the odds of that!!! my god .. thats incredible.

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Mad-Mike 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 539	I dunno, there's some weird mysticysm around those Atari consoles and games...... Ever notice the games sometimes seem to just KNOW where Pac-Man is going or the Drag-O-Ducks in Adventure know where you are all of a sudden. Some of those games had an odd and creepy ability of AI that is beyond the scope of what the machine is supposedly capable of. And according to the code notes I've read for some of those games, it makes it all the creepier. I had something weird happen to me with my V-Tech Pre-Computer 1000. I mom threw it in the trash 15 years ago, then I went to that thrift about 2 years ago, and there it was sitting on the table in back, just like I remembered it, Testors Model paint embellishments, pencil lead jammed in various spots. How it escaped the dump unscathed is beyond me.

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Shot King 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 617	Heh, that never happend to me before. I think I might have bought a few old N64 games that I used to have, but thats not a go.

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Hordak Alpha 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 801	Interesting story but I'm never going to try it. I'm keeping my Atari 2600 and leaving it to one of my kids in my will.
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TurboLover 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 281	I remember playing it over at a friend's home, playing Q*bert, Pac-Man, Pitfall. It was fun. My parents gave me the one that was before the Atari 2600. It had Pong and other games on it already.
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System 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 74809	Wow, what are the chances of that happening?

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CanadianWeirdAlFan 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 607	Cool. A little creepy, but cool.

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System 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 74809	Most people don't believe me when I tell them...but it is true!!

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Nicole239 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 144	ok that is creepy!! but I believe in that kind of stuff. kept your Atari!

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SkinnyDre 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 32	NightCrawl Her! wrote: Atari chooses its owners. LOL! So true
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System 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 74809	That's the best thing to happen. How can you get an Atari in your hands like that? Amazing.

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jetfire426 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 402	wow.. that is trippy.. yet amazing and cool...

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Wordplay 8 years 8 months ago Posts: 202	The Force is mighty in you, Luke.
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