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Atari 7800 System - Video Game Console | 
 enlarge | From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $139.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 4525
Media: Video Game
UPC: 077606530101
EAN: 0077606530101
ASIN: B000X8C3YU
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| • | Thr original Atari 7800 Video Game Console (System) |
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Product Description
The Atari 7800 is a video game console released by Atari in June 1986 (a test market release occurred two years earlier). The 7800 was designed to replace the unsuccessful Atari 5200, and re-establish Atari's market supremacy against Nintendo and Sega. With this system, Atari addressed all the shortcomings of the Atari 5200: it had simple digital joysticks; it was almost fully backward-compatible with the Atari 2600; and it was affordable (it was originally priced at US$140).
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What the Hey? October 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It feels a tad strange to write this review now, but I suppose stranger things have happened. I actually felt that this was a pretty good system. Turning the clock, WAY back, the Atari 2600 was the system EVERYONE had for awhile. (Though I should probably say almost everyone.) In the mid 80s, people were starting to go in the direction of computers, and Atari wasn't so sure the video game market was so viable. To make a long story short, the Atari 5200 had some success, but the 2600 proved to be the better seller. Atari and Nintendo were suppose to be partners, but to make another long story short, Nintendo wasn't quite honest with Atari. (This of course broke the negotiations.) Nintendo decided to go on their own, and they took over the game market almost immediately. The Atari 7800 was a great system, but by the time it had come out, Nintendo was already the dominant system. To be sure, the 7800 was a really good system, and it did offer Atari a brief (but still significant) resurrection. But it was just too late. All of that said, to this day, I still think the Atari 7800 was a great system that would have done better if it had established itself before Nintendo. That said, its strongest element was probably improved arcade classics such as 'Pole Position,' 'Crossbow,' and 'Double Dragon.' Another great thing about the 7800 was that it was (for the most part) backwards compatible with the old Atari 2600 games. I say 'for the most part' because Imagic games did not seem to work in it. I also feel that if the system had been around longer, the games for it would have improved. To this day, I still feel it was a sad day when the 7800 went out of production. Perhaps one day this system will be rereleased. (Stranger things have happened.) To this day, I still dig out my 7800 now and then. Overall, it was a great system that didn't get the recognition it deserved.
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