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"Vader" (all-black four-switch model)

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"Vader" (all-black four-switch model)

all-black four-switch model · CX2600 · Atari · 1982

Released1982-11
Colorblack
Regionworldwide
Rarityno data
WhyThere’s no units produced with a source and not enough listings. We don’t make things up.

The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released c. September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976. The VCS was bundled with two joystick controllers, a conjoined pair of paddle controllers, and a game cartridge-initially Combat and later Pac-Man. Sears sold the system as the Tele-Games Video Arcade. Atari rebranded the VCS as the Atari 2600 in November 1982, alongside the release of the Atari 5200.

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How to tell them apart

All-black case, no woodgrain, four front switches; officially rebranded "Atari 2600" from its CX2600 part number.

Details from sources

Coincided with the Atari 5200 launch.

Data source: en.wikipedia.org

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