looks like a bunch of shitty TV's on the blink till u realise its all loaded up with shitty Sears games...why couldnt our parents just buy us the shitty 2600? they had to save $30 and get shitty telegames....pissed me off. cheapos....shit might as well by sears Odessy 2 rip off too...fuckin sears...where are they now?
@Drzdog You realize those "shitty Sears games" are actually rebranded Atari 2600 games, right? You understand that Sears had a license from Atari to rebrand 2600 systems and cartridges with the "Telegames" label and sell them in Sears stores, no? And that they also had an agreement with Mattel to do the same thing with the Intellivision? Oh, I guess you don't. There's no excuse either, seeing as you're 41, old enough that you should know these things.
Outer Space is one of the coolest sounding 2600 games. It's the only game being played in this commercial...you can see the sound effects matching one of the center TVs.
2 things I miss (We didn't have a sears near us that I can remember). The counter restaurant and the game display (like best buys has) both at Woolworths. (I may not have spelled that right) Woolworths was like a smaller version of Target or Wal*Mart in the 70s
@cymrutroll There was an Empire Strikes Back game around 1982, and in 1984 there was a version of 1983's Star Wars arcade game for the system (which is ridiculously easy- I played it for several hours before quitting!)
Almost all the video games I want to play? Wow! I can play everything but Mario, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong, Mega Man, Castlevania, Doom, Halo, Goldeneye, Duke Nukem, Quake.........hey. I can barely play anything I want to play. Darn con artists!
in the early eighties i stole a atari cartridge at sears they use to have an atari version of the nintendo center i think. you could test games there and the games were attached to a chain. i was a fetus back then so that makes me 21 years old as of today.
@VirtualBoyGamerShow I have the clone system still. Works fine! Although I got it used when I bought the Atari (I mean Tele-Games System) as kid along with a bunch of Atari games and Tele-Games games. Paid 10 or $20 bucks for that including ALL those games. It was a bargain.
@Membrane556 Sears had their own brand on everything until the 80s when their electronics/appliance department was named "Brand Central" and they started carrying regular items. Sanyo made the first Sears Beta VCRs, and Hitachi made most of the Sears-branded CED videodisc players.
I'm gettin one shipped to me.the sewers version WITH 30 GAMES AND PADDLE CONTROLLERS but no Ac adapter.10.00 and the dude says it works!!!! Ohh I'm so excited thumbs up for retro gamers like me.
@MattTheSaiyan It was completely legit. As the other poster stated, Sears would sell items like this under their own brand name. Atari was happy to have them as a dealer.
@MattTheSaiyan no need to be sorry bro. money is the name of the game and many emulators were and still are around copying shit lol. i think atari 'allowed' sears to emulate their system so they could sell telegames and i'm probably thinking it was one in the same without the 'atari' logo attached lol. i'd never put it past anybody in this capitalistic society.
@GarthMcCreery You DO realize that emulators exist, right?
I don't see the obsession with having all this crap when you can just run a computer program that can either play the exact game as it originally was or enhance it for better image quality - and it even uses less electricity still.
@fuzzywzhe its not the same. its like playing miss pacman on an emulator vs the original upright machine. there is something to hearing the coin drop in and the original speaker. its just better.
@fuzzywzhe not really. its actualy the exact opposite. its the contents that are so important. you might think that you can perfectly emulate older games thru mame or any other emulators but you would be wrong. they are not the same. They are close but that is all. the very best an emulator can do is perfectly match the original, they are never better thus the original is always better.
@fuzzywzhe they actually don't. they have to emulate different types of cpus and other hardware designed in a different way all together. I would say 50 percent of emulated games come out nearly perfect but the other half are serverely flawed. higher resolution isn't an improvement, it takes away from original games play. there is nothing wrong withusing an emulator but bottom line is if you want to play the real game there is only one way to do that... play the real game.
@gtq838 I am an electrical engineer that has written simulators for various hardware. I really don't care to argue this. You can believe what you want, I don't make a mission to educate people who are convinced they are right even when they are wrong.
@fuzzywzhe no reason to get all upset about it. there are a lot of reasons people like the original machines. some people collect them as historical items. I don't play these machines but I do own many arcade machines and run mame machines as well. I can tell you that emulators are not flawless in articulating the original hardware and code. short of that they aren't the same when viewed on non original screens. most people would rather play pacman on the original crt than a 40in lcd for example
@0M9H4X "and besides, how can you perfectly emulate a Z80 soundchip on a PCs soundcard?"
Are you serious?
I can write a complete simulator of a Z80 in under a week, and I don't even know they assembly of Z80 anymore. It's an 8 bit microprocessor with 252 instructions.
"you will NEVER get the same audio output as from the console."
You know why people say that LP records "sound better" than CD's?
It's because in order to keep the needle in the groove of a vinyl disk, the audio is distorted.
@0M9H4X "dont get me wrong but no emulator ive ever seen can perfectly simulate any system."
You know how a modern system is made?
When I was working at Microsoft, in Mountain View, off from La Avenida Street on the XBox360 project, we used an emulator to write code before we got the hardware back from Verilog simulation to the IKOS emulator.
I'm tired of arguing this. DV is built around hardware simulation. It's TRIVIAL to *EXACTLY* duplicate the functions of an old, 8 bit machine.
No, it's not "trivial". It can be done, but it's not "trivial" Even today the Amiga emulators can't duplicate EXACTLY the draggable screens of the original Amigas. (of course, Amiga wasn't 8-bit)
Yes, old 8-bit systems can be emulated. But it's not always "trivial".
What MIGHT be difficult is simulating it in real time and that's a real rarity today for an 8 bit processor when you have a 64 bit processor, with memory running at over 1Ghz, with the chip speed at over 3 Ghz to do the simulation.
Some of these old systems you could nearly emulate with SPICE.
I'm just tired of trying to talk sense to people like you. This isn't a matter of OPINION, it's a matter of FACT. It's not open for debate. Simulation of hardware can *always* duplicate EXACTLY actual physical hardware. Always. Without exception.
The only question is speed - if it will be real time or not. With any 8 bit computer and the VAST MAJORITY of 16 bit machines, it is real time.
@fuzzywzhe Strange dogma you've got going on there. Can you simulate a radio on a PC without a radio receiver? P.S. I didn't read your full debate because I assume it's boring and stupid.
No, it's purely subjective and you're being an ass.
It's trivial to build a two story tall wall out of 8" brick in a Flemish header bond.
Can you do it? I'd bet not. For me, it's trivial.
If it can *always* do it, then do it, big mouth. Show me where *anything* can emulate the real-time draggable screens of the Amiga. If it's so trivial, it should have been done years ago, but so far the only thing I've seen is a pathetic imitation.
@fuzzywzhe No amount of software emulation can re-create the feel of the original controllers for a system. Sure, there are sometimes adaptors for connecting old controllers to modern PCs and fully-compatible replicas of some old system controllers are still made, but even that tends to be the exception.
@MattTheSaiyan "No amount of software emulation can re-create the feel of the original controllers for a system."
What - those much plastic cheap controllers that always broke, that you replaced regularly or the controllers that were around $10 that weren't made by Atari that lasted a lifetime?
@fuzzywzhe Emulators are nice and I do like them, but it can result in it all seeming like each game is lost within a sea of other 100s of other games in a sub-sub-folder of the computer.
I'm playing Atari 2600 right now and thought that I'd look on you tube and post something. As a kid I had the Atari 2600 with 4 front buttons my buddy Bill had the 6 button Atari and Monty had the Sears Tele-Games System I remember us all trying to get different games so we could trade around... :-) Good times I love these old commercials
I worked on the 2600 manufacturing line at Atari in Sunnyvale. The assembly line for the Sears system was right next to the line for the 2600. Same components, different labels, docs and packaging. They were different in one important regard. Very different quality standards.
@s408c which one was made with higher quality and in which ways? Did this factory produce both the cartridges and the systems? They both seem exactly alike to me, so Im just curious.
@cathplyr They are exactly alike. Different labels and packaging. Components for the games and cartridges were made in various places, but assembled, packaged and shipped in/from Sunnyvale, CA. As I mentioned earlier, the assembly lines were right next to each other. At the point of final inspection, I not only did a visual inspection, but ran mechanical and functional tests. The failure rates allowed for the Sears version were higher than the failure rates allowed for the Atari version.
@DoubutsuNoMoriFan No, it's not a ripoff. It's actually a real Atari 2600. Sears and Atari had a dealing partnership (as Sears also had a partnership with Mattel for the Intellivision and called that the "Super Video Arcade"). The Atari was re-labeled the "Video Arcade".
What were the first and 2nd best systems in 1977? Intellivision hadn't even come out yet!
The flickering of course is to compensate for the Atari's inability to keep several moving objects on the screen at once, so it just put each one up for one field where there were a lot- Pac-Man being the most famous example where only one ghost was on screen at a time.
The Tele-Games is not properly an Atari clone, its an actual Atari with Sears labeling. For the first two years of mfg, the Sears labeled Ataris are what sold, and today by far the easiest to find. I found two of the first-year models (laden with lead shielding, made in Sunnyvale) randomly at thrift stores. Don't spend much for a Sears labeled Atari on ebay! It's the early Atari labeled ones that are rare.
@Hot80s We had one when I was a kid, it was the exact same but I think it looked cooler. It had Target Fun [the shooting game the commercial mentions, the Sears alternate name for Air-Sea Battle] instead of Combat, and we had Space Invaders too, then we got a whole bunch others later under a buy one get one free deal. I think my dad loved Sears, we had Sears everything, even our house's central AC was a Sears model.
@Hot80s I do.....the plug is fu**ed, and im to scared to replace the plug as I dont know if it will lose its collector status as it all wouldnt be original.
@Hot80s I remember seeing some on eBay a few years back and thinking of them as uncool compared to the original 2600. Overtime, I think I've started developing a slight preference for the Sears model. The chrome/wood is so charming!
If anyone wonders, the sound effects in the background are the game "Star Ship".
Somehow that game is actually still fun, yet it was one of the first discontinued titles. @_@
I need to get an original Heavy Sixer Tele-Games: I really like the look of the woodgrain area on these, and I just overall prefer the heavy sixer build.
Definitely was legit. All the Sears stores had them with similar names to the Atari release. Sears did this with a lot of other products too. I remember a football game by Coleco called Eletronic Quarterback which Sears sold as Electronic Touchdown.
Sears Telegames. The telegames Intellivision was very unique. The color was ugly, IMO, but the controllers were removable. NICE! The power switch was easier on the fingers too.
The instruction manuals in the cartridges for Telegames had different art along with the boxes and console equipment.
I have my grandparent's old Intellivision from Sears still. I kicked butt on Tron Deadly Discs on it.
sears had some great products.I got a sears black and white tube televison set.still in exllent conditon.and has never been turned on in over 40 years
You ever seen a 1080p CRT TV set? I have one, and trust me, you wouldn't want to get rid of it. Graphics artists (and I'm talking real pro's) still proof their work on HD CRT's because of higher brightness, stronger color, and the fact that a CRT is still the only standard that can deliver a perfect circle.
In reality, the only thing an LCD or Plasma has over an HD CRT set is that it weighs a lot less and takes up less space... and the fact that you can't really buy HD CRT sets anymore.
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what country make this atari games in 1977,,,
america made it or asia made it
bestamerica 1 month ago
@bestamerica The early system I have was made in California!
eyeh8nbc 1 month ago
eyeh8nbc,
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okay thank explain,,,
i wish america can make it all video games,,,
no need asia or foreign make games for america
bestamerica 1 month ago
i getting a six switch one
animegamer66 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
can you say first and only licenced multi cart awsome
mrmikeroach1 2 months ago
this is a great commercial!!!!!!!!
MVboys2 2 months ago
I cant wait for this to come out! Oh wait... what year was it now?
bluezgoldz 3 months ago
How to make video games sound as exciting as bookkeeping.
w0mblemania 3 months ago
I love the sound of the cartridge going into the system!
MrEhGames 5 months ago
looks like a bunch of shitty TV's on the blink till u realise its all loaded up with shitty Sears games...why couldnt our parents just buy us the shitty 2600? they had to save $30 and get shitty telegames....pissed me off. cheapos....shit might as well by sears Odessy 2 rip off too...fuckin sears...where are they now?
Drzdog 5 months ago
@Drzdog You realize those "shitty Sears games" are actually rebranded Atari 2600 games, right? You understand that Sears had a license from Atari to rebrand 2600 systems and cartridges with the "Telegames" label and sell them in Sears stores, no? And that they also had an agreement with Mattel to do the same thing with the Intellivision? Oh, I guess you don't. There's no excuse either, seeing as you're 41, old enough that you should know these things.
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@Drzdog wow retard.. its the same thing as atari... research before u post troll lollololloloolollool retardism at its best...
bkrebs1969 1 week ago
I used to have one of those. Then my cats hosed it down. It's okay though, I've got the black Vader 2600 now.
chupathingy99 5 months ago
It wasn't sold 'only at Sears' it was sold as 'Atari' everywhere else.
MrCorporalTunnel 6 months ago 3
@MrCorporalTunnel
duh... thats why its called a clone...
bkrebs1969 1 week ago
@bkrebs1969
That's what I said. I was making light of the claim given in the commercial.
MrCorporalTunnel 1 week ago
*150 Televisions shown not included.
WeWouldLike2Play 6 months ago
i cant wait 4 it 2 come out im never goin 2 go outside again :) lol
ryan12343752 6 months ago
so this is were people got the idea to put a bunch of Nintendo games on a simulator
Blinkcub 6 months ago
Outer Space is one of the coolest sounding 2600 games. It's the only game being played in this commercial...you can see the sound effects matching one of the center TVs.
Great game, especially for a 1977 release.
19psi 6 months ago
wow 26x times a different game and all look the.....same?
Spacefrisian 6 months ago
@Spacefrisian I wonder if people in the future will feel the same way.
"260 different first person shooters about armored super soldiers in murky brown landscapes???"
guruatomik 6 months ago
2 things I miss (We didn't have a sears near us that I can remember). The counter restaurant and the game display (like best buys has) both at Woolworths. (I may not have spelled that right) Woolworths was like a smaller version of Target or Wal*Mart in the 70s
ptd1965 7 months ago
@ptd1965 It's usaully just Woolworth or Woolworth's (or F. W. Woolworth & Co. if you had to go that far). I remember that place as well.
RetroToledo 6 months ago
So was that guy the architect? This must have been the first matrix! ;b
lordtalon69 7 months ago
Was there a Star Wars game? well, there shud have bin, wot with it bein the biggest ilm of the year. But i guess they didnt do tie-ins then........
cymrutroll 7 months ago
@cymrutroll There was an Empire Strikes Back game around 1982, and in 1984 there was a version of 1983's Star Wars arcade game for the system (which is ridiculously easy- I played it for several hours before quitting!)
eyeh8nbc 7 months ago
aBOUT TIME they made one for the first film !
cymrutroll 7 months ago
IT'S DECIDED I'm getting the Nintendo. ;P
deku8989 8 months ago
@deku8989 Sorry, they didn't sell Nintendo then.
DanJ30 8 months ago
@DanJ30 yea they did. the "color tv game 6"
fortifythamind 8 months ago
@fortifythamind that was their pong clone
DanJ30 8 months ago
I bet you can microwave or blend one of those and it wouldn't affect it. Dont make em like that anymore
carsonky 9 months ago
The name is misleading, says 2600 'clone', but it wasn't a clone, it was made by Atari. It just had a different name on it.
Kart00nHead 9 months ago
Almost all the video games I want to play? Wow! I can play everything but Mario, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong, Mega Man, Castlevania, Doom, Halo, Goldeneye, Duke Nukem, Quake.........hey. I can barely play anything I want to play. Darn con artists!
WebVMan 9 months ago
This is what Onlive is like, except the games are streamed. Virtual Console has over 150 games, not on cartridges.
WebVMan 9 months ago
Back when game systems didn't get Yellow Lights of Death.
Tundraboy05 9 months ago
@Tundraboy05 what are yellow lights of death??
IBOUGHTYAMOM 9 months ago
I still have this. My Mom worked at Sears and bought it there!
CelestialWoodway 10 months ago
in the early eighties i stole a atari cartridge at sears they use to have an atari version of the nintendo center i think. you could test games there and the games were attached to a chain. i was a fetus back then so that makes me 21 years old as of today.
OriginalFobs 11 months ago
The Seers Tela-game system! Why play your carts on the real Atari 2600, when you can play them on a more expensive clone system?
VirtualBoyGamerShow 1 year ago
@VirtualBoyGamerShow I have the clone system still. Works fine! Although I got it used when I bought the Atari (I mean Tele-Games System) as kid along with a bunch of Atari games and Tele-Games games. Paid 10 or $20 bucks for that including ALL those games. It was a bargain.
LedWilde 11 months ago
Do you think Sears could've sold the ColecoVision as the "Pro Video Arcade" to boost sales of the CV?
ClassicTVMan1981X 1 year ago
lol i have donkey kong for the sears tele game and I put in my 2600. it worked
RetroKid200 1 year ago
I love the sounds of all the games in the background.
And on a side note: the Z80 was a CPU, not a "sound chip".
bertfw 1 year ago
oh now i remember they were made by atari buy distributed by sears so they are going to be about $50 more than the origonal atari 2600 :)
51rickjames 1 year ago
how did they get away with this
51rickjames 1 year ago
i have a sears model, but it does not work...
parabolakid 1 year ago
I have the game console and 12 games, in the original boxes.
ktorch 1 year ago
SEARS XGAME 2!!
blingdaddy1 1 year ago
Imagine if they still did that. There could be a rebranded 360 called the Sears XGame 2, the successor to the Sears XGame (Xbox)
knuxthefox 1 year ago
i want one! but when i went to sears they were out of stock
1989kirby 1 year ago
@1989kirby Did you try ordering from the catalog?
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
In the Tele-Games aisle at sears, one week after product launch.
Employee: Uh, hey, boss. We got a whole load of brand new Sears Tele-Games cartridges.
Boss: Just put 'em straight in the dollar bin.
liwowoli 1 year ago
Atari shouldnt have built their system from off the shelf parts, as far as im aware it had no proprietry tech inside at all, so no copyright
ezelite 1 year ago
@ezelite
The 2600 did have one costume chip the TIA-1A video chip.
Sears tele-games were an OEM rebranded 2600 vs a clone. Atari had a deal with Sears it was common for the company to sell rebranded products.
RCA and Sanyo made the Sears banded TVs
Membrane556 1 year ago
@Membrane556 Sears had their own brand on everything until the 80s when their electronics/appliance department was named "Brand Central" and they started carrying regular items. Sanyo made the first Sears Beta VCRs, and Hitachi made most of the Sears-branded CED videodisc players.
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
My Sears 360 Elite kicks ass.
DeLorean4 1 year ago
@DeLorean4 Mine does too!
blingdaddy1 1 year ago
Thanks for posting
xylfox 1 year ago
I mean sears not sewers(ewww.)
blingdaddy1 1 year ago
I'm gettin one shipped to me.the sewers version WITH 30 GAMES AND PADDLE CONTROLLERS but no Ac adapter.10.00 and the dude says it works!!!! Ohh I'm so excited thumbs up for retro gamers like me.
blingdaddy1 1 year ago
This is going to bury Nintendo.
kbbcoop 1 year ago 29
Ah, the good old days of video games, when simplicity ruled.
Barnstormer1969 1 year ago
i have one im getting it reapired i dont know why but it playys 2600 games igts great u all should check it out
123stephenno 1 year ago
@123stephenno this is an EXACT Atari 2600 clone. not even a clone. just an Atari 2600 with a sears label.
GeminoSmothers 1 year ago
Umm, no Sears. That would be an Atari. Not one of yours. stoopid.
16mmDJ 1 year ago
does sears still service them if not they should
zombieturd7 1 year ago
@zombieturd7 They'd probably break it even more.
MrPresidentFox 1 year ago
Would these TeleGames work on Atari 2600 and vice-versa?
lcvd1 1 year ago
@lcvd1 yes they would. I have about 10 'tele' games and they're compatible with the atari 2600 system.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
@lcvd1 They do.
MrPresidentFox 1 year ago
my dad had the sears model.. I couldnt wait to visit and play video games!
astrocat75 1 year ago
Back when game systems didn't get Red Rings of Death.
tangypanda 1 year ago 37
@tangypanda No, it didn't red-ring, but the power supply eventually overheated and crapped out.
WTRickman 1 year ago
@tangypanda Naw, they just got the orange screen.
YukoAsho 10 months ago
@tangypanda whats red rings of death?
IBOUGHTYAMOM 9 months ago
@tangypanda No kidding. I'll die before my 2600 will. I think my Atari 2600 will withstand a thermonuclear war.
wildsmiley 7 months ago 5
I WANT A TANK GAME AND A SPAYETH WAWR GAMMME!!!
szor1 1 year ago 2
Was this a licenced system or an illegal clone? Sorry for my ignorance....
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
@MattTheSaiyan It was completely legit. As the other poster stated, Sears would sell items like this under their own brand name. Atari was happy to have them as a dealer.
blacbraun 1 year ago
@MattTheSaiyan no need to be sorry bro. money is the name of the game and many emulators were and still are around copying shit lol. i think atari 'allowed' sears to emulate their system so they could sell telegames and i'm probably thinking it was one in the same without the 'atari' logo attached lol. i'd never put it past anybody in this capitalistic society.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
I was lucky enough to pick up a four switch for like $16 a while back, works great!! ASTEROIDS, word
ElectricIndica420 1 year ago
Actually, there was "Video Olympics" for the 2600, which has a Pong game. The Sears name for the cartridge was "Pong Sports".
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I knew that, but thank's for refreshing my memory. I never said it was released on the 2600 in the first place. Thank's fo the "headsup" Dick Head.
TheLizardKing1967 1 year ago
I knew that, but thank's for refreshing my memory. I never said it was released on the 2600 in the first place. Thank's fo the "headsup" Dick Head.
TheLizardKing1967 1 year ago
Where's PONG
TheLizardKing1967 1 year ago
@TheLizardKing1967 pong was never released on the 2600, it was a stand alone arcade/console.
almightyseancore 1 year ago
@almightyseancore Pong was one of many variations for the 2600 called Video Olympics.
blacbraun 1 year ago
@Blockygraphics
That's why you can easily find working 2600s but that PS2 you bought in 2003 is toast now.
Heck my NES died years ago but I still have a working 2600.
It seems the quality and longevity of consumer electronics took a nose dive around 1997 to 2001.
Membrane556 1 year ago
@Membrane556 NES was pre 1997 (circa 1985-1994) but if it died years ago it probably put in a good life.
My PS2 bought in 2002 still works but my cousin's PS2 bought at the same time gave up the ghost about 2007.
And yes, my 2600 was still working in 2007 or so, at about 26 years old :)
whattheheck1000 1 year ago
@Membrane556 if your nes is dead you abused the hell out of it i still have 4 working ones just in case one breaks
GarthMcCreery 1 year ago
@GarthMcCreery
Mine the cartridge slot broke that's all but I was still a dumb kid at the time so it ended up in a box in the attic which was not good for it.
l eventually resurrected it with a repair kit and a parts one I found at a yard sale.
Membrane556 1 year ago
@Membrane556 sweet. gotta keep the NESs of the world alive =)
GarthMcCreery 1 year ago
@GarthMcCreery You DO realize that emulators exist, right?
I don't see the obsession with having all this crap when you can just run a computer program that can either play the exact game as it originally was or enhance it for better image quality - and it even uses less electricity still.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe its not the same. its like playing miss pacman on an emulator vs the original upright machine. there is something to hearing the coin drop in and the original speaker. its just better.
gtq838 1 year ago
@gtq838 It's inane that people want to play on the original hardware.
You're basically saying that the package is more important than the contents.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe not really. its actualy the exact opposite. its the contents that are so important. you might think that you can perfectly emulate older games thru mame or any other emulators but you would be wrong. they are not the same. They are close but that is all. the very best an emulator can do is perfectly match the original, they are never better thus the original is always better.
gtq838 1 year ago
@gtq838 "the very best an emulator can do is perfectly match the original,"
First of all, emulators DO duplicate the hard, exactly. It's pretty simple timing in the system. Most games are "arcade perfect."
Second of all, you can enhance the originals by scaling the images to a higher resolution.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe they actually don't. they have to emulate different types of cpus and other hardware designed in a different way all together. I would say 50 percent of emulated games come out nearly perfect but the other half are serverely flawed. higher resolution isn't an improvement, it takes away from original games play. there is nothing wrong withusing an emulator but bottom line is if you want to play the real game there is only one way to do that... play the real game.
gtq838 1 year ago
@gtq838 I am an electrical engineer that has written simulators for various hardware. I really don't care to argue this. You can believe what you want, I don't make a mission to educate people who are convinced they are right even when they are wrong.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe no reason to get all upset about it. there are a lot of reasons people like the original machines. some people collect them as historical items. I don't play these machines but I do own many arcade machines and run mame machines as well. I can tell you that emulators are not flawless in articulating the original hardware and code. short of that they aren't the same when viewed on non original screens. most people would rather play pacman on the original crt than a 40in lcd for example
gtq838 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe:
dont get me wrong but no emulator ive ever seen can perfectly simulate any system.
i once played NES games on my PC and thought i was fine, but boy wait till i got my NES.
it wasnt just the music and the graphics that were better, but even the games physics!
and besides, how can you perfectly emulate a Z80 soundchip on a PCs soundcard?
you will NEVER get the same audio output as from the console.
i still enjoy emulation though, but whenever i can i get the real system.
0M9H4X 1 year ago
@0M9H4X "and besides, how can you perfectly emulate a Z80 soundchip on a PCs soundcard?"
Are you serious?
I can write a complete simulator of a Z80 in under a week, and I don't even know they assembly of Z80 anymore. It's an 8 bit microprocessor with 252 instructions.
"you will NEVER get the same audio output as from the console."
You know why people say that LP records "sound better" than CD's?
It's because in order to keep the needle in the groove of a vinyl disk, the audio is distorted.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
@0M9H4X "dont get me wrong but no emulator ive ever seen can perfectly simulate any system."
You know how a modern system is made?
When I was working at Microsoft, in Mountain View, off from La Avenida Street on the XBox360 project, we used an emulator to write code before we got the hardware back from Verilog simulation to the IKOS emulator.
I'm tired of arguing this. DV is built around hardware simulation. It's TRIVIAL to *EXACTLY* duplicate the functions of an old, 8 bit machine.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe
No, it's not "trivial". It can be done, but it's not "trivial" Even today the Amiga emulators can't duplicate EXACTLY the draggable screens of the original Amigas. (of course, Amiga wasn't 8-bit)
Yes, old 8-bit systems can be emulated. But it's not always "trivial".
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm No, it's always trivial.
What MIGHT be difficult is simulating it in real time and that's a real rarity today for an 8 bit processor when you have a 64 bit processor, with memory running at over 1Ghz, with the chip speed at over 3 Ghz to do the simulation.
Some of these old systems you could nearly emulate with SPICE.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe
We'll just have to agree to disagree.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm "We'll just have to agree to disagree."
Not REALLY.
I'm just tired of trying to talk sense to people like you. This isn't a matter of OPINION, it's a matter of FACT. It's not open for debate. Simulation of hardware can *always* duplicate EXACTLY actual physical hardware. Always. Without exception.
The only question is speed - if it will be real time or not. With any 8 bit computer and the VAST MAJORITY of 16 bit machines, it is real time.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe Strange dogma you've got going on there. Can you simulate a radio on a PC without a radio receiver? P.S. I didn't read your full debate because I assume it's boring and stupid.
rbrbran277 1 year ago
@rbrbran277 i dont know, can you simulate a fuck without a pussy?
IBOUGHTYAMOM 9 months ago
@fuzzywzhe
No, it's purely subjective and you're being an ass.
It's trivial to build a two story tall wall out of 8" brick in a Flemish header bond.
Can you do it? I'd bet not. For me, it's trivial.
If it can *always* do it, then do it, big mouth. Show me where *anything* can emulate the real-time draggable screens of the Amiga. If it's so trivial, it should have been done years ago, but so far the only thing I've seen is a pathetic imitation.
And if it's not real time, wtf good is it?
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@fuzzywzhe No amount of software emulation can re-create the feel of the original controllers for a system. Sure, there are sometimes adaptors for connecting old controllers to modern PCs and fully-compatible replicas of some old system controllers are still made, but even that tends to be the exception.
MattTheSaiyan 8 months ago
@MattTheSaiyan "No amount of software emulation can re-create the feel of the original controllers for a system."
What - those much plastic cheap controllers that always broke, that you replaced regularly or the controllers that were around $10 that weren't made by Atari that lasted a lifetime?
fuzzywzhe 8 months ago
@fuzzywzhe Emulators are nice and I do like them, but it can result in it all seeming like each game is lost within a sea of other 100s of other games in a sub-sub-folder of the computer.
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
I'm playing Atari 2600 right now and thought that I'd look on you tube and post something. As a kid I had the Atari 2600 with 4 front buttons my buddy Bill had the 6 button Atari and Monty had the Sears Tele-Games System I remember us all trying to get different games so we could trade around... :-) Good times I love these old commercials
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munnsie100 1 year ago
@munnsie100 how bout you put a gun to your head and pull the trigger
KartKing4ever 1 year ago
@Blockygraphics LOL. No, I would never steal. We got pretty good discounts through the Atari company store. I bought my 2600 and other games there.
s408c 1 year ago
What about a video game where you avoid advertising pigs and the winner gets to free his mind?
hate420breed 1 year ago
was the tele-games a bootleg version of the Atari 2600?
SonicFans468 1 year ago
@SonicFans468 no it was an OEM partnership with atari because atari needed to start selling their hardware in notable stores.
ichbinstark 1 year ago
No, it was exactly the same thing but was renamed because Sears always used to sell stuff that was under their name.
burr1aj 1 year ago
I worked on the 2600 manufacturing line at Atari in Sunnyvale. The assembly line for the Sears system was right next to the line for the 2600. Same components, different labels, docs and packaging. They were different in one important regard. Very different quality standards.
s408c 1 year ago
Which one has better quality? becuase I have a Atari Telegames and it works great
TheBillbot 1 year ago
@TheBillbot The quality standards for the Atari 2600 were stricter.
s408c 1 year ago
@s408c which one was made with higher quality and in which ways? Did this factory produce both the cartridges and the systems? They both seem exactly alike to me, so Im just curious.
cathplyr 1 year ago
@cathplyr They are exactly alike. Different labels and packaging. Components for the games and cartridges were made in various places, but assembled, packaged and shipped in/from Sunnyvale, CA. As I mentioned earlier, the assembly lines were right next to each other. At the point of final inspection, I not only did a visual inspection, but ran mechanical and functional tests. The failure rates allowed for the Sears version were higher than the failure rates allowed for the Atari version.
s408c 1 year ago
@s408c I live in Sunnyvale - where was Atari's Office? Cross street would be fine to know, I doubt the building is still there.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
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punji73 1 year ago
@DoubutsuNoMoriFan No, it's not a ripoff. It's actually a real Atari 2600. Sears and Atari had a dealing partnership (as Sears also had a partnership with Mattel for the Intellivision and called that the "Super Video Arcade"). The Atari was re-labeled the "Video Arcade".
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tsntana 1 year ago
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atari had way too much flicker. 3rd best system back then
Love4SK 2 years ago
What were the first and 2nd best systems in 1977? Intellivision hadn't even come out yet!
The flickering of course is to compensate for the Atari's inability to keep several moving objects on the screen at once, so it just put each one up for one field where there were a lot- Pac-Man being the most famous example where only one ghost was on screen at a time.
eyeh8nbc 2 years ago
Best system of 1977. Fairchild Channel F was 2nd, PONG systems were 3rd, and RCA S--tdio II was 4th.
whattheheck1000 1 year ago
there is a word for commercials like this : awesomeness
KhyberBoy09 2 years ago
The Tele-Games is not properly an Atari clone, its an actual Atari with Sears labeling. For the first two years of mfg, the Sears labeled Ataris are what sold, and today by far the easiest to find. I found two of the first-year models (laden with lead shielding, made in Sunnyvale) randomly at thrift stores. Don't spend much for a Sears labeled Atari on ebay! It's the early Atari labeled ones that are rare.
acksponies 2 years ago
rare shit, does anyone have a sears model?
Hot80s 2 years ago 16
They're not that rare. Plenty on ebay
ioport 2 years ago
@Hot80s in 98 one of my friends gave me one i was like can this play atari games? lol yeah these are not hard to find
johnnytube420 1 year ago
I do. Don't know if it works.
JohnKreeseCobraKai 1 year ago
i got a sears consol
ClassicGamerTV 1 year ago
@Hot80s i do
cathplyr 1 year ago
@Hot80s We had one when I was a kid, it was the exact same but I think it looked cooler. It had Target Fun [the shooting game the commercial mentions, the Sears alternate name for Air-Sea Battle] instead of Combat, and we had Space Invaders too, then we got a whole bunch others later under a buy one get one free deal. I think my dad loved Sears, we had Sears everything, even our house's central AC was a Sears model.
Germany1111 1 year ago
@Hot80s i saw one for $20 once but i have a sears pong system
cmarshall1018 1 year ago
@Hot80s i have several of them, actually.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
@Hot80s yes i already did a video on mine
TheBillbot 1 year ago
@Hot80s i only got the box... console is somewhere... but not in ma'h house :S
TheKshow101 1 year ago
@Hot80s i do
113dsc 1 year ago
@Hot80s I do.....the plug is fu**ed, and im to scared to replace the plug as I dont know if it will lose its collector status as it all wouldnt be original.
dinglenutzz 1 year ago
@Hot80s MEEE
blingdaddy1 1 year ago
@Hot80s I remember seeing some on eBay a few years back and thinking of them as uncool compared to the original 2600. Overtime, I think I've started developing a slight preference for the Sears model. The chrome/wood is so charming!
DeLorean4 1 year ago
@Hot80s i had one but it got melted to slag in the housefire.
LordBicen 1 year ago
@Hot80s I have seven.
pacman45140 1 year ago
@Hot80s omg its rare?!i have one mhow much is it fucking worth?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
attackvista 1 year ago
"Sold only at Sears"... Yeah the "Tele-Games" name, but it was still an Atari.
DanJ30 2 years ago
If anyone wonders, the sound effects in the background are the game "Star Ship".
Somehow that game is actually still fun, yet it was one of the first discontinued titles. @_@
I need to get an original Heavy Sixer Tele-Games: I really like the look of the woodgrain area on these, and I just overall prefer the heavy sixer build.
kurisux 2 years ago
atari made these then series rebranded them. thats all really sad sears trying to say can only be bought here when its just an atari
Lumotaku 2 years ago
Was this licenced by Atari? I mean was it legit?
Symos 2 years ago
Definitely was legit. All the Sears stores had them with similar names to the Atari release. Sears did this with a lot of other products too. I remember a football game by Coleco called Eletronic Quarterback which Sears sold as Electronic Touchdown.
habyss 2 years ago
this is the atari, sears wouldn't stock the atari vcs 'woody' unless it had the sears brand instaed of the atari logo.
ninjamypinja 2 years ago
Sears Telegames. The telegames Intellivision was very unique. The color was ugly, IMO, but the controllers were removable. NICE! The power switch was easier on the fingers too.
The instruction manuals in the cartridges for Telegames had different art along with the boxes and console equipment.
I have my grandparent's old Intellivision from Sears still. I kicked butt on Tron Deadly Discs on it.
VGHell 2 years ago
this is the atari i have :D bought it for 50$
WULFY1993 2 years ago
Will this thing play atari games? my aunt just gave me one of these
RebelReaper 2 years ago 3
Yes, it is exactly the same thing as the 2600.
I think we had one, and have fun with so many games.
theknowbody 2 years ago
Its basically an atari just with the name sears
TheAsianAdmiral 2 years ago 2
sears had some great products.I got a sears black and white tube televison set.still in exllent conditon.and has never been turned on in over 40 years
peugteobike 2 years ago
When I was young, B&W TV's were the standard CRT TV's of today... used as secondary TVs, by the poor, etc.
I love my HDTV and blu-ray now, and someone would have to shoot me dead before I'd part with my 42" Panasonic Viera 1080p Plasma or 40" Sony XBR4.
VGHell 2 years ago
You ever seen a 1080p CRT TV set? I have one, and trust me, you wouldn't want to get rid of it. Graphics artists (and I'm talking real pro's) still proof their work on HD CRT's because of higher brightness, stronger color, and the fact that a CRT is still the only standard that can deliver a perfect circle.
In reality, the only thing an LCD or Plasma has over an HD CRT set is that it weighs a lot less and takes up less space... and the fact that you can't really buy HD CRT sets anymore.
AllPro777 2 years ago 3
@AllPro777 true that same with me and when i'm texturing for an art commission on photoshop
Kamikuru77 1 year ago
My grandfather has an old .22 rifle he bought from sears for 36$. Sears used to sell just about everything besides griceries!
Letsmakeasamich 2 years ago
November 25, 1977.
whattheheck1000 2 years ago
Are you a savant or just remember this very well?
Letsmakeasamich 2 years ago
I was born in 1992. The date was in an earlier comment now pages deep.
whattheheck1000 2 years ago
Oh okay.
Letsmakeasamich 2 years ago
@whattheheck1000: That was like what, 32 years ago?{LOL} How the world has changed...........
SanFran90 2 years ago 2