Here's Conan O'Brien playing some vintage Atari 2600 games. His reaction is about what mine usually is when I think "I'll go retro and play some classic games!"... because the home versions of these games were weak. One exception: River Raid is amusing for a bit, but Conan simply wasn't getting the hang of things, probably for comedic effect. I have to assume he spent at least some time playing these things, since he was born in 1963. Maybe if they had given him an Atari computer (400, 800, and the variants) to play with, he would have had more fun. Those machines were more powerful (closer to the original Nintendo Entertainment System), and I used one enough as a secondary gaming system in the early 1990s to know that it has far more entertainment value than the 2600.
For fun, here's a link to information about an Atari laptop (based on the 800XL, the computer we had when I was growing up, alongside an original NES and a Dell desktop).
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