BASIC Programming isn't a game but a tool: a stripped-down BASIC interpreter that Atari released alongside a keyboard peripheral so 2600 owners could write their own simple programs, within the console's extreme limitations. It was an unusual experiment for its time, meant to bring home programming to an audience that until then had only ever consumed closed cartridges. Today it's remembered as a curiosity within Atari's catalog, closer in spirit to the educational drive of early personal computers than to that of an entertainment console, and as a distant forerunner of the homebrew culture that later flourished around the 2600.
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