In transient: Lego is reportedly prepping one other bricked sport console following the profitable launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System in the summertime of 2020. According to Promo Bricks, the Lego Atari 2600 is more likely to debut as set quantity 10306 and is designated as an Atari fiftieth anniversary product. We do not but know what number of items it is going to encompass, or if it is going to embrace any mini figures.
The publication did say the system might be similar to the unique 2600 in measurement, and can embrace a “playable” model of Pitfall!
If you recall, the Lego NES set additionally included a playable scene from Super Mario Bros. This spectacular engineering feat was all carried out mechanically, which might be the identical route Lego will take for the Pitfall! jungle scene the place Pitfall Harry makes use of a vine to swing over a pit of crocodiles.
The Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) launched in 1977 and was renamed to the Atari 2600 5 years later. The system was on the heart of the online game crash of 1983; issues received so unhealthy at one level that Atari shipped unsold sport cartridges off to the landfill. Remarkably, they’d be discovered some 30 years later. Atari finally discontinued the 2600 in 1992, a number of years after the launch of the NES.
The Lego Atari 2600 set is anticipated to go on sale immediately from Lego in August priced round 169.99 euros / $200 within the US forward of in-store availability beginning in January 2023.
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