Winter:  Atari 2600.  This is the first time that 2600 Magazine had the similarly named Atari 2600 video game system from the early-1980s on a cover.

There's a lot going on here.  The Atari logo was replaced with a red and blue logo that said TRAUMA, something many of our readers were experiencing with the election results.

The "right difficulty" switch was modified to say "ALT-right" with "difficulty" scratched out.

The Atari 2600 itself is up on a stone pedestal.

There is a Missile Command cartridge in the slot - and the cover itself has an 8-bit graphic overlay from the Atari 2600 Missile Command game.

There is a large protest going on in the background, comprised of dead people who would presumably be turning in their graves over Trump being elected, some of whom were quite recently deceased.

The people in the crowd included:

Protesters are holding three signs: a pink #NOTNORMAL hashtag, a sign in Arabic that says "We Are The Dead" (a famous quote from 1984), and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation logo of the folks protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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