The Atari 7800 is a video game console released by Atari in 1986 (a test market occurred in June 1984). The 7800 was designed to replace the unsuccessful Atari 5200, and re-establish Atari's market supremacy against Intellivision and Colecovision. With this system, Atari addressed all the shortcomings of the Atari 5200: it had simple digital joysticks; it was almost fully backwards compatible with the Atari 2600; and it was affordable (it was originally priced at $140 USD).

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The 7800 was the first game system from Atari which was designed by an outside company (by the General Computer Corporation, future consoles designed outside the company were the Atari Lynx and the Atari Jaguar). The system was designed to be upgraded to a fully-fledged home computer — a keyboard was developed, and the keyboard had an expansion port (which was the SIO port from Atari's 8-bit computer line) for the addition of peripherals like disk drives and printers (this should not be taken to imply that this computer expansion would have allowed the 7800 to run programs designed for Atari's computers, as the two architectures were entirely different). GCC had also designed a 'high score cartridge,' a battery-backed RAM cart designed for storing game scores. Atari manufactured none of these accessories, and after the initial production run they also eliminated the expansion port. In 1987, the Atari XEGS was released and it came with a light gun, called the XG-1. The XG-1 was fully compatible with the 7800 and the 2600, and Atari released four games on the 7800 that utilized this peripheral.

The 7800 was test-marketed in southern California in June 1984. One month later, Warner Communications sold Atari to Jack Tramiel, who did not want to build a video game console. He pulled the plug on all projects related to video games and decided to focus on Atari's existing computer line in order to begin development of the new 16-bit computer line (which appeared as the Atari ST). The 7800 was re-introduced in winter 1986 after the success of the Nintendo Entertainment System proved that the video game market was still viable. Unfortunately, by the time the 7800 made it to market, the NES had 90% of the market cornered and the rival Sega Master System had most of what was left.

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liclopes (Eli Lopes) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:07:42 -0000
códigos fonte de jogos clássicos do Atari 7800 http://bit.ly/40l9W3 seja feliz
「チャーリーハッスル」の異名を持つ元MLBのピート・ローズを冠にした野球ゲームがかつてATARI 7800で発売されていた。当時から欲しかったけど未だに入手できず。賭博で球界を追放されてからWWFのリングにあがったりしてたけど、今は何してるんだろ？　大好きな選手だったのになぁ。
junkhunt (ジャンクハンター吉田) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:21:02 -0000
「チャーリーハッスル」の異名を持つ元MLBのピート・ローズを冠にした野球ゲームがかつてATARI 7800で発売されていた。当時から欲しかったけど未だに入手できず。賭博で球界を追放されてからWWFのリングにあがったりしてたけど、今は何してるんだろ？　大好きな選手だったのになぁ。
@flaccord tengo supernintendo, y un atari 7800
toporul (Victor Pérez-Rul A.) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:39:53 -0000
@flaccord tengo supernintendo, y un atari 7800
Pizza, pizza, pizza!! Then some Atari 7800 action.
goonies_mouth (Goonies Mouth) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:13:18 -0000
Pizza, pizza, pizza!! Then some Atari 7800 action.
ATARI 7800で発売されるはずだったチャック・ノリス先生の『地獄のヒーロー』のゲームを原稿執筆のためにプレイ中。完成度9割だったにもかかわらず、メナハム・ゴーランのせいでお蔵入りした悲しきゲーム。7年ぶりにプレイ。チャック先生のゲームでは最高傑作！ 全部で2本しかないけど。
junkhunt (ジャンクハンター吉田) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:17:40 -0000
ATARI 7800で発売されるはずだったチャック・ノリス先生の『地獄のヒーロー』のゲームを原稿執筆のためにプレイ中。完成度9割だったにもかかわらず、メナハム・ゴーランのせいでお蔵入りした悲しきゲーム。7年ぶりにプレイ。チャック先生のゲームでは最高傑作！ 全部で2本しかないけど。
Gettin tired after drinking my dads stolen beer. Gotta get this homework done or my ass is grass. Addicted to the Atari 7800 so not easy.
goonies_mouth (Goonies Mouth) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:01:53 -0000
Gettin tired after drinking my dads stolen beer. Gotta get this homework done or my ass is grass. Addicted to the Atari 7800 so not easy.

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