How does the Atari 2600 difficulty switches actually work?

[matmico399]

I tried to understand the replies and schematics here but unfortunately I can’t read 19th century pre-industrial German. And the idea that Space Invaders 2600 was what, 4 kilobytes, yet had over 100 variations? How is that even possible? Or is it a lot easier than it seems? And if someone does know, please explain it to me using sock puppets.

Lol

[VideoGameCritic]

As both a programmer and classic gaming enthusiast, I hereby declare this thread to be awesome.