I had one friend with an Odyssey2 and everyone felt bad for him. A couple of my friends had Intellivisions which were ok but they had limited people to trade cartridges with. Mike had a Colecovision. Everyone wanted to be Mike's friend. The rest of us had Atari 2600s.
Pickaxe Pete wasn't too shabby, either.
Played way too much Pickaxe Pete as a kid. I can still hear that sound when he goes through the doors to another level. K.C. Munchkin was pretty cool, too- even had a level editor!
We had a lot of fun with Monkeyshines.
Killer Bees, especially with the Voice add-on
Cosmic Conflict. You could pretend you were manning a turret on the Millennium Falcon.
Had one as a kid too. It was my intro to video games so I've got fond memories of it. It's funny I had a lot of fun with the games but didn't realize until years later that a lot of the games we had were just clones of more popular games.
I have the same story. But the ironic thing is, the Odyssey2 was a superior system to a 2600. But Atari had all the major titles locked up, and back then, nobody did ports. All deals were exclusive.