Pong Atari 2600 Rom Jun 2026

The Atari 2600 is a notoriously difficult machine to program. It has no frame buffer; the developer must draw the screen line-by-line in real-time as the electron beam scans across the CRT. The Pong ROM, weighing in at a minuscule (2,048 bytes), is a masterclass in efficient coding for the 6507 processor.