How do you hook up an Atari 2600?

Pedro12345Pedro12345
in Gamer's Gauntlet

Not sure if this is the right place to put this or not, but if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.  I bought an Atari 2600 at a garage sale and am not sure if it works or not.  I never had one as a kid so I'm not sure I'm doing it right.

Here's what I've got:  The black cord that comes out the back (male) is going into the yellow (female) video port (it has the standard red/white/yellow input ports) on my TV (Philips flat-screen HDTV).  The adapter is plugged in and the TV input is set to the matching input.  That seems correct.  Am I missing something?

Secondly, is there a way to tell if it's not working?  There's no light or anything like on the NES.  I thought that the early systems were really hard to break since there's not much to them.

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