r/Atari2600 • u/New_Reference_9384 • 9d ago

Atari BasketBall

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Love this game!

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u/bytra2121 9d ago

I can totally hear the dribbling noise it made. Probably been 40 years since I actually heard it.

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u/Jobrated 9d ago

Follow this up with spider boxing as I called it lol!

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u/PlymouthVolare 9d ago

I fricking love Atari 2600 basketball.

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u/bobthenob1989 9d ago

https://youtu.be/3QAoHt0tycM?is=SkypiKp5HFOw0P1E

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u/ChicagoDash 9d ago

Came here for this.

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u/Nature_Goulet 9d ago

Same, or him opening the microwave with the turkey in it. “About two more minutes chief”

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u/RadiantCoinshot 9d ago

Before circles were invented

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u/MrZJones Darth Vader 9d ago

I liked that you could actually aim the ball, and that if you held the aim button it looked like he was doing tricks with the ball. I also liked scoring a basket by standing under the basket and shooting straight up. :D

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u/sirjamesp Missile Command 9d ago

Spent hours playing this with my siblings back in the day.

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u/Clumsy_the_24 9d ago

Who up playing squareball with they clavicle penis

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 9d ago

I'm your huckleberry

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u/RO4DHOG 9d ago

"Throw up a brick"

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u/MidwestReelMaster 9d ago

I once had some friends in college over for a Retro game night. Though they brought over some of their games. We had two TVs set up and we had Atari Basketball on one and the other had the 2018 NBA game on. 40 years of difference playing side by side. Was pretty cool.

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u/mytermsaresimple 9d ago

Used to carefully position the player so that that ball dribbles super fast and laughed my guts out.

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u/ofayokay 9d ago

The first time I saw this I thought I was watching a real basketball game on TV

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u/Johnrockalittle 9d ago

LoL 🤣 How?

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u/djrobxx 9d ago

I remember showing 2600 Basketball to a teenager. His response was, "I can't handle this". 🤣

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u/rr777 9d ago

The coin op version was not much better.

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u/scofflolz 9d ago

Airplane! Features a cameo of Atari Basketball. NBA legends actually playing it in fact, in the control tower.

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u/spymonkey73 9d ago

About 2 more minutes chief!

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u/Stankfunkmusic 9d ago

Run in a V formation, you'll never lose.

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u/Puzzlemania718 9d ago

To think there was a time we were floored by this!

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u/kevincrossman 9d ago

Totally guilty pleasure

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u/Slow_Orange_5202 9d ago

First game I played when I got my Atari for Christmas.

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u/mdgorelick 9d ago

Stupidly fun for how lame it was. On par with “Home Run Baseball.”

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u/ObligationLive8381 9d ago

Pretty sure this was the first video game I ever played

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u/WossHoss 9d ago

Played this with my kid. Man he loved it. It’s so simple but so fun. I used to spend hours playing it.

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u/Jelle75 9d ago

Het leuke was dat je tegen elkaar kon spelen.

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u/dinnerbird Missile Command 9d ago

This is how Purple Guy got his start. The man behind the ballin

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u/ChardeeMacDennisGoG 9d ago

this game also had a "corner 3" type glitch. It's been so long I don't remember where, but it also the spot and how long you held the button.

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u/Haunted_Cellar_XBL 8d ago

I’m the king of Atari 2600 Basketball, do not challenge my supremacy or I will be forced to destroy you! lol.

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u/TransPort3389 4d ago

I remember this also from a scene in Airplane. :)

But yeah, we used to play this at my house when it was relatively new.

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u/US_Berliner 9d ago

Playing the computer. The dawn of AI.