Bringing back the games and consoles you loved as a kid, into the 21st Century
Consoles will come with signs of wear and tear due to age. If you require a photo of the exact product before ordering jump on discord.gg/retrosix and ask us. We can photograph the units in stock for you to choose.
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc.
Firstly we take one of our Atari 2600 consoles from stock, based on the version you chose. The case gets a full strip down and clean.
All internal electronics are cleaned, fixed up, re-soldering all switches, replacing the interboard ribbons, and repairing/replacing any aging components. New foam pads are installed under the switches as they turn to powder of the years.
Next the mods start. We start by adding a dual-power LED mod so you know when your console is on and also when your power supply is working. After that a CleanComp composite/S-Video mod is installed to upgrade the console from RF to Composite and S-Video.
Finally it is all screwed back together using our stainless steel screw kit, and tested on CRT, PVM, modern LCD and old TFT monitors with many games to make sure it is running perfectly.
The console comes with a power supply (original or new depending on stock), 2 brand new controllers with much better feel and function, and the composite/S-video lead.
Then it is all boxed up, bubble wrapped and shipped off to it's new home.
The one thing missing from the 2600 was the ability to tell when the console was powered on, or if your wall plug was working. With the Power Dual LED upgrade, you will get a red LED if your power brick is working and the console is receiving power, and a green power LED when the console is turned on. The glow is subtle and not distracting to gameplay even in the dark
The CleanComp is a composite video mod for your Atari 2600. Unlike other composite mods that simply clean-up and re-amplify the already dirty signal, the CleanComp completely reconstructs and makes a new composite video signal directly from the TIA chips digital logic. Matching the composite video IRE specifications perfectly to within 10mV perfectly you will get the best possibly composite signal you can get. For more details on how composite signals work read here, and for information on how we reverse engineered and created the CleanAmp read about it here. The two links are https://www.retrosix.wiki/composite-video-signal for the first one, and https://www.retrosix.wiki/extracting-composite-video-atari-2600 for the second
Luke
Retro Enthusiast
RetroSix is a small team of people who have been in the gaming industry and retail business since 2013, and sold consoles, controllers and even designed our own controllers and consoles.
Putting that expertise to good use, we decided to start RetroSix; a small team of people passionate about retro gaming, and restoring original consoles to like-new, adding our own twist and style to them and in general bringing a modern twist to retro.
Experience the nostalgia without the limitations of old and outdated hardware.
So many things these days are mass produced, not designed to last, and make as cheap as possible for as much money as possible. We started RetroSix not as a mass market business, instead with the aim of perfection. Recreating moulds of original shells, casting them from quality ABS, redesigning hardware such as power supplies, USB-C, audio and more, to upgrade your consoles to the highest quality available. No cheap junk sold for profit.
All restoration work, modifications, improvements and so on are done in the UK, in-house by hand and all attention to detail and care is taken for every order. You can be assured that your order has been inspected not only by a real person but someone who knows about and is excited by gaming and retro, and no sub-par product leaves our doors.
Partners
We believe partnering with other likeminded companies is a great way to help each other out and ultimately make products that are better for the end consumer. We have many distributors and partners around the globe who sell RetroSix products, you can find them by simply searching for "RetroSix Country Name" such as "RetroSix Germany" in google in your country for top results.
Of course we sell and ship worldwide direct from source if you would like to purchase direct from anywhere in the world.