Question about Atari consoles

Armageddon PotatoArmageddon Potato
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I recently picked up a tele-games atari 6 switcher with the tele-games center included at a flea market. After testing it later on at home it powers on to channel 2, but doesn't load any of the games. It just gives me a black screen, and eventually that black screen will flicker about every 7-10 seconds continually. Is it just dirty? If so how can I clean it. It looks to be in good condition, and all the switches work great. I hope it's not broken 0_o...

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  • PenguinPenguin
    Try switching it to channel 3 and try again, my 2600 always seems to work better on channel 3, should be a hole in the bottom to switch the channel. As for the games being dirty i've actually never cleaned any of my atari games and they all still worked so it's probably not that. SOunds like your system powers up and is sending a signal theres just somthing not getting through. Hopefully changing the channel should fix it.
  • wrldstrmanwrldstrman
    the top where the board sticks out most carts have the cover that depresses when you put the cart in. they usally stay pretty clean. if the board is exposed I would say the need cleaned.
  • Armageddon PotatoArmageddon Potato
    Thanks guys, I don't know much on how to deal with ataris. I'll try those suggestions and see if I can get it to work!
  • Armageddon PotatoArmageddon Potato
    It still keeps giving me a black screen. Although I don't notice any real flickering now... It won't play any games, but I did set it to channel 3.

    Any idea how to get an atari showing you a black screen to work? What needs to be cleaned/fixed? Anywhere I can get this fixed?

    Edit: I recently found atari garage online. I may look them up since I have more than a couple atari's that could use some fixing. Hope these guys are legit?
  • flyingduckyflyingducky
    One thing you could also try is too take the Atari apart so the main board is visable and check the solder conections. Over time the joints come lose and stops working. I had a few systems that had the same problem your talking about, all i had to do to fix it was to get a soldering iron and touch it to the lose conections 95% of the time you don't even need to add any new solder. the old solder will re-melt and make a solid conection again. Since it powers up and only the picture is not working I would check the conections around the video output first.
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