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From: cjp@vax135.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Atari problems (model 2600)
Message-ID: <607@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 19:35:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 19:35:20 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Dec-83 07:23:07 EST
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That problem with the left controller of the Atari 2600
losing its fire-button control (or worse) has turned up
in *every one* of my friends' 2600s I have played, that's
three in all.  This is one reason I bought an Intellivision
instead.  (It has other problems though which I won't go into now.)

For what little it's worth, I've found that a careful wiggle of the
controller's plug can temporarily restore the missing function,
*provided* that one is careful not to pull on the cord while playing.
You may have a tendency (I do) to yank the controller around in
imitation of the desired on-screen result.  (NNNgggghh! RRRrr!
ohNOOOOO!)  Pulling on the cord is probably why it poops out in
the first place.  I don't know any reliable solution to the problem.

    Charles J. Poirier