Play through our collection of vintage consoles! Whether you grew up with Asteroids on Atari or young enough to not know where the Red, Yellow, and White wires go to on the back of our TV's, we have games that everyone can enjoy in as authentic a way we can provide it. We pride ourselves on giving our visitors the real experience: Real hardware, CRT Televisions, and genuine controllers. 

October 1977 brought us the Atari VCS. It was not dubbed the 2600 officially for a few more years, but was known by its model number CX2600.

The 2600 was not the first system to use interchangeable ROM cartridges for its games and software (that honor belongs to the Fairchild Channel F), but it did popularize them.

It was a wildly popular system from the late 1970's to early 1980's.The system's official production run was from 1977 to 1992. Even today, 2,600 enthusiasts produce their own games for the 1.19MHz wonder.

The NES is known as the system that revived home video gaming after the Video Game Crash of 1983-84.

An American version of the Japanese-made Nintendo Famicom (Family Computer) (1983), the NES made its American debut in 1985 in New York City, and was being sold coast-to-coast by 1986. 34 Million units were sold in the U.S. alone.

Though it is best known for its flagship title, "Super Mario Brothers," the little gray box is recognized for leading to many other successful video game franchises including The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania, and many more.

The Sega Mega Drive or Genesis in the US Market, was one of the big titans in 16-bit gaming in the early 90’s and sold over 30 million units in its lifetime. Although not the first 16-bit home console, It did predate its competitor the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo by 2 years. Powered by the venerable Motorola 68000, which was the main processing unit, and the Zilog Z80 which controlled sound and various sprites and graphical effects, it was the choice for many gamers who wanted to bring their arcade favorites to their homes. Standout games include Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, as well as notably, what many consider to be the definitive home port of Mortal Kombat due to it being able to be "uncensored" through a cheat code to perform the gory “Fatality” scenes from the arcade version. 

The Genesis also included a Yamaha soundchip, the YM2612, which was a stripped down version of one of their synthesizer chips the YM2608. Due to a bug, at low volumes, fading effects would distort and quantize creating unique effects. A lot of sound designers knew of this and would program their games with this effect in mind and utilize it for their tracks.

The Genesis had 3 revisions as well as two notable add-ons, the Sega CD and the Sega 32x, each with their own library of games. These would mount to the first two Genesis revisions and gave the console more features. The Sega CD mounted to the bottom of the Genesis, and allowed it to play games formatted on CDs. With the added storage capacity that the format had compared to cartridges (4MB vs ~700MB) games could have full motion video (FMV) cutscenes as well as CD-Quality audio. The other add-on, the Sega 32x, gave the Genesis a processor that could handle 32-bit software, and mounted to the cartridge port of the first two Genesis revisions. Powered by 2 Hitachi SH-2 RISC processors, the 32x was Sega’s attempt to buy time until they could release their actual 32-bit console, the Sega Saturn. It was not very successful, and only had a library of around 40 titles, a good amount of them being enhanced versions of games the base unit already had such as Doom.

Released in March of 2000, the PlayStation 2 or PS2 is the second 6th generation console after the Sega Dreamcast and launched at $299 USD. As of 2026, the PS2 is the best selling console of all time, having sold over 160 million units worldwide. The PS2 stayed on the market for nearly 13 years, being discontinued in January of 2013. As a gaming console, the PS2 had a massive library of games having over 4000 in PS2 exclusive releases, however this is greatly expanded by the console’s ability to play games from the original Sony PlayStation with full backward compatibility. Powered by Sony and Toshiba’s “Emoticon Engine” SOC, the PS2 had very impressive 3D graphics with notable titles being Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy X, and the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy just to name a few. One of the standout features of the PlayStation 2 was its DVD drive, which didn’t only allow for game size increases which could support up to ~8.5 GBs on a dual layer disc, but its ability to playback DVD movies without need for any add-ons being priced fairly competitively to standalone DVD players at the time. There were two main revisions: the standard launch model referred to as “Fat PS2” by the community, which was capable of using the Broadband Adapter giving it online capabilities and a slot for an IDE 3.5” Hard Drive, and the PlayStation 2 Slim, which was significantly smaller and incapable of using the Broadband Adapter, but included a built-in Ethernet port. Sony also released Linux for Playstation 2, allowing owners to turn their PS2 into a full blown PC with a fork of Red Hat Linux. 

The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006 under the codename “Revolution”, brought families together in the living room in ways its competitors could not capture. Under the hood was a PowerPC “Broadway” processor and ATI “Hollywood” graphics processor. It stood out with its unique motion controller, the Wiimote, which used a design most people were already familiar with, resembling a TV remote over more traditional controller designs like the PS3, Xbox 360, or even its predecessor, the Nintendo Gamecube. Although the Wii wasn’t the first home console to bring motion controls to the living room, it was the first time it was the primary way to interact with the console rather than being an accessory sold after. This meant developers could design games utilizing this medium to craft games where you can swing the remote like a baseball bat and get a home run, or face down hoards of enemies by slicing with your controller as if it were a sword. This also attracted an audience that wouldn’t typically play video games. Grandpa may not understand how to time a perfect dodge roll in Dark Souls, but driving a golf ball down the fairway with a golf club he sure can. And that’s really what the Wii was all about, and what led to its success, selling over 100 million units, and it being the 7th best-selling console as of 2026.