Engadget Giveaway: win an exclusive Atari 2600 with PC components!

We're not going to beat around the bush here: this is one of the most exciting contests we've hosted in a long, long time, and you'll definitely want to enter. Our friends at Atari were kind enough to give us an extremely limited-edition (there are only two in existence) Atari 2600 gutted with modern PC components and signed by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell -- and one lucky soul will be able to call this beauty their very own! The gaming company is doing this to promote the 35th anniversary of the 2600's original release, as well as its latest creation, arcade.atari.com, which is an HTML5-driven, multitouch-supported hub that lets you play eight classic Atari games online (including Pong and Centipede). Not only that, the team -- consisting of Atari and the Internet Explorer team -- put together an SDK to help you build your own games on the classic platform. After you enter to win (all you have to do is leave a comment below), make sure you head over to the Arcade to spend countless more hours in the land of nostalgia.

Note: For bragging rights, feel free to post your high score as your comment entry.

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do. Duplicate entries will be filtered out and discarded, so adding additional comments won't increase your likelihood of winning.

• Contest is open to all residents of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so direct your anger at our lawyers contest laws if you have to be mad.

• Winners will be chosen randomly. One winner will win one (1) limited-edition Atari 2600 modded with a Core i7 3.4GHz processor, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD and Radeon HD 6570 graphics card with 1GB video memory.

• If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of being contacted. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.

• This unit is purely for promotional giveaway. Atari, Microsoft, Hard Drives Northwest and Engadget / AOL are not held liable to honor warranties or customer service.

• The full list of rules, in all its legalese glory, can be found here.

• Entries can be submitted until October 18, 2012 at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!