No, really: “Following relatively hot on the heels of 2020’s Lego NES, the Danish building block company has collaborated with another gaming titan for a similarly nostalgic console build just in time for its 50th anniversary. The Atari 2600 will soon be available in Lego form for anyone willing to shell out $239.99 and build it from its 2,532 pieces. The console and its buildable accessories will be available exclusively on the Lego store on August 1. However, there will be no pre-orders.”
Unfortunately, you can’t actually play Atari games on it, which I personally find exceptionally disappointing. I mean, it’s 2022. These games are available online. How hard would have been to add a chip and USB port?
Do I *want* it? Sure. Do I have $240 worth of want for it? … Not so sure about that. For that kind of money, I’d want to be able to play games on it.
Not hard, is the answer.
Now if you could get your hands on an advance copy of it, you’d have enough time to work out the alterations to make it playable with enough time to market converter kits, which will cost you nothing to fulfill since it will be mailed on demand from LEGO itself as ‘pick a brick’ orders, and from new egg or RS or somesuch for leaf switches and ports. Pure. Profit.