Atari 2600
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The Atari 2600 became an iconic home video game system of the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the Homestar Runner body of work, Atari characters, games, graphic style and controllers frequently show up. The Atari 2600's single button, single joystick controller and simple, blocky graphics conveys the feeling of a simpler, easier time. While the system was innovative at the time — using a cartridge system and being able to display graphics in color — by comparison, the system now seems primitive. This fact is used to emphasize how out of date their technology is. The Atari 2600 featured games such as Asteroids, Adventure, Pitfall! and Missile Command.
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Characters
Graphics
- In Search of the Yello Dello - Specifically, this appearance is a reference to the game Pitfall.
- Second Games Menu
- Email duck pond
- Main Page 13
- Everybody to the Limit
- HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!
- Everything Else, Volume 3 (The menus and the interior of the case)
- Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Gameplay Trailer - The boxing game that Strong Bad plays (Snake Boxer V) strongly resembles Activision Boxing.
System and Controller
The Atari 2600 is blocky and black, and the controller is similar with a joystick and button. They have occassionally made appearances in various toons.
- Debut: In Search of the Yello Dello — An Atari 2600 joystick is watermarked on the first deleted scene's description page.
- Strong Bad's Room Main Page — Strong Bad's Room has an Atari 2600 system.
- Main Page 13 — Its icon is an Atari 2600 controller.
- Puppet Time — An Atari 2600 system is the last item Homestar steals from Strong Bad.
- Experimental Film — Homestar plays on the ATM with an Atari 2600 joystick.
- Bug In Mouth Disease — What appears to be an Atari 2600 system is visible on the TV during the taped head scene.
- Email space program — An Atari 2600 joystick is duct taped onto the real Proud Anselmo.
- Kid Speedy — The fake online play's loading screen features two Atari joysticks being connected via the Internet.
- Email concert — Strong Bad and Strong Sad play an unseen Atari game in their basement.
- Everything Else, Volume 3 — If you don't make a selection on the main menu, the screen will zoom out to reveal Puppet Homestar Runner and Puppet Strong Bad playing it as an Atari 2600 game. Also, on the Holidays menu, an Atari 2600 joystick is one of the powerups The Cheat collects.
- Email environment — Homestar moves an Atari 2600 joystick, thinking he's playing a game.
Games
The following games are modeled after the Atari 2600 games of old.
- Armless Invaders
- The Cheat's Smoking Challenge
- Nighttime Driving Type Game
- Secret Collect. (for the FunMachine)
- Duck Guardian
- 50K Racewalker
- HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS! Free Sample Game
- C.H.E.A.T.
- Where's an Egg?
- Where's The Cheat? (game)
Also, the Videlectrix game catalog is presented as stacks of Atari 2600 games.
