Some people get obsessed with games, some with just a single game. Scott Williamson loves him some Star Castle, an ancient arcade game that could have been on the Atari 2600 in its heyday, but never saw the programming firepower it needed. Now, a few years later, that’s changed. Oh, and it comes on a custom cartridge. To use in a custom Atari 2600 machine. That’s transparent and lights up. Boing Boing has the story.
New 2600 games are still being made, because the programming is relatively simple and the emulation has been worked down to a science. Playing around with 2600 gaming is a good way for you budding game designers to test your ideas.