Yeah, the 2600's sprites consists of a background, 2 player sprites, a ball, and 2 missiles.  Each of the "sprites" are all one line, meaning that each sprite must be updated before the TIA chip displays each line.  This can be a pain, because you have to be absolutely perfect with the t-states you take up in your program. 

As far as the resolution is concerned, the "standard" NTSC resolution is considered 192x160.  This number can change, because the programmer can manually adjust the vertical and horizontal blank.  Recently, programmers have found a way to force the tv to interlace the image, effectively doubling the vertical resolution. 

(P.S. Would an Atari 2600 emu work on the Nspire? That would be cool.)

The 2600 also uses a 6502 variant, so it's possible. 

I thought it was real at first. 

Wow!  That's the kind of menu screen you world get on a 16 or 32 bit home game console.  Awesome!  ^^

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I rofl'd at that one.
Better customer support.  HA!

Yeah, before I had an 84-P SE, I just made fun animations.
Of course, all of my math teachers think I am a good student by staying on task and using his calculator.