I don't like Atari 2600 anything. I don't understand how anyone has nostalgia for Pong or Adventure. They're turds.
I'm 43. I also never liked the Atari 2600.
Now, even though i'm old, i'm still not
that old to be able to appreciate the system. It was still released a couple of years before i was born. So when i played it for the first time (some time in the late 80's), the Atari 2600 was already an obsolete system.
However, i did play many of it's games in the arcades or via ports in more modern systems like the NES. And i still didn't like those games. That's because 99% of them are single screen. I only fell in love with games when i saw the big, scrolling worlds. The Atari 2600 can't have such games and the few exceptions look worse than the regular single screen games.
I still like
some single screen games but they are very few and the Atari 2600 wouldn't be able to handle them anyway, like Bubble Bobble for instance (good luck handling all those bubble sprites).
But the worst for me are the
8 bit home computer games. And these were things from my childhood. ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC. I can't think of a single game i would stand playing in those systems. Not because the games are bad per se, but because the systems make the whole experience miserable. You get those ugly color palettes (only the Amstrad looked good), the atrocious scrolling (only the C64 could do that smoothly), the flickering sprites and color clash of the spectrum, the slow frame rates, the input lag, the worst storage medium in history (tapes) and their unbelievable loading times and prayers that a game will actually work after a 5 minutes loading and won't produce a read error.
I really can't understand how people who had those machines had any fun with them. I get depressed at the thought i would be stuck with such a system as a kid. Even emulators that fix some of their issues don't save the situation.
