Alright, I got my Atari 2600 about 2 years ago because I got interested in it and its games. I kept thinking that I wanted the Atari 2600 so bad so after a while of begging my mom to spare me some cash so I could have just enough money to buy an Atari 2600 she finally drove me to a shop near my town where they sell all video games in their store.

The price of the Atari was about 80$, it came with two joystick controllers and one paddle controller. I had a little bit of money left so my mom let me buy some games for it. I bought Pitfall, StarMaster, Keystone Kapers, Kaboom! and (Yes, I got this game because I loved the movie and thought the game was interesting looking because I was wondering what the game would be like…so I bought it so I could find out and the game cartridge looked good and not cheaply made) the last game I got was a game that I now know is one of the most hated games and is called by some people the worst video game… E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When we drove home before I even got to play my Atari my mom had me do a small chore by helping her paint the wooden swingset in my our back yard.

I was trying to hurry as fast and get it done fast so I could get to play my Atari as soon as possible because I had been excited ever since I held onto the Atari in the car on the way home. After a while I finally got done helping her I rushed up back into my house up the stairs, grabbed my atari, rushed into my room and set it all up to my TV. The first game I played was pitfall and it was fun, I quickly changed the game to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and didn't understand it at all so I played kaboom, kaboom is mainly the one I spent my most time on playing the most, after that game I played Keystone Kapers and that was a lot of fun too.

About a week after that one I found that one of the cords for my Atari swtich box was pulled out of the switch box and tore open. I forgot all about atari for about 2 years since it was broken and I didn't have internet so I could buy a new switch box and there wasn't a store in town that had a switch box, not even the one I bought my Atari 2600 from. So in the 2 years after all that I finally had internet but dial-up and I still didn't remember my atari 2600 so ok moving on…the NEXT year we were able to finally get broadband in the area where we live and then a few months after that I took out all my old game systems and found my Atari 2600 so it brought back my memories of its cord not working and I not being able to play it for a long time. Still today, (a few more months after that) I have still been looking and searching for a new switch box for my atari 2600, I even went to radio shack and bought a couple of things…but they ended up not working.

Today I have found a site with something that might work so tomorrow I'm going to maybe order it and see if it works, if not then I might just have to buy a new Atari 2600 for 70$ I'm really wanting to play my Atari and I will even buy a new one if I really have to.