Atari Alumni

As the successor to the ill-received 5200, the Atari 7800 was meant to save the company from bankruptcy. It was developed in 1983 by a company called General Computer Corp (GCC) after Atari won a lawsuit against them for developing a speed up kit for the arcade version of Missile Command. (GCC would also develop [...]

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The Atari 7800 ProSystem was Atari’s chance at redemption in the video game market.    Atari Inc. spent a good part of 1983 interviewing thousands of people on what they wanted  and didn’t want in a video game console.    Atari Inc. through Warner Communications, then worked with General Computer Corporation who earlier had lost a lawsuit [...]

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3600 Prototype Motherboard. PCB Design by
Dan Schwinn formerly with GCC, Inc.
The original model # of the Atari 7800 was the Atari 3600. Marketing then settled on the Atari CX-9000 Video Computer System. Since the system was originally thought to be the ultimate gaming console, a high number was chosen. [...]

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The Atari 7800 never had a chance. Stacked against the dominant NES and a stubborn Master System, Atari’s competitor was doomed to fail. The console was created in 1983 for full release the following year, but the faltering videogame market forced Atari to full it back. The ascension of the NES proved that consoles were [...]

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After the release of the Atari 5200 and the great Video game crash 1983. Atari needed to do something and do something fast. So they came up with probably their best game system to date. Reason being it has its own library of games, and can play every Atari 2600 game. So the library for [...]

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Instructions
Step 1
Try games online before you buy. If you don’t remember which Atari would make the best choices to buy, you can play them online before you decide to buy them. Go to the Classic Consoles website, click on the game you want to try and follow the directions. You can play online with your [...]

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Long before the Wii, Playstation, Game Cube or Xbox 360, there was Atari. It was a console ahead of its time and everyone had one, or begged for one. Games like Pong and Pac-Man set the premises for the future of the video game console. To buy an Atari console seems like an easy feat, [...]

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