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- The Atari 7800 ProSystem was a victim of bad timing and poor management. It was originally meant to come out in 1984, but the recent video game crash and Atari's sale to Jack Tramiel's Tramel Technology Ltd. ensured that it wouldn't hit its intended date.
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Dec 21, 2020 · The NES and the Sega both blew the Atari 7800 out of the water in terms of performance and graphics. With such a small game library and outdated visuals, the 7800 was not only late to the party, but it simply couldn't compete.
Sep 27, 2001 · Yes, Jack Tramiel canned the 7800 for the wrong reasons- not because of the previously discussed flawed plan for its release, but a desire to focus strictly on computers. However, the entire situation of Warner's Atari Inc. has to be looked at to understand what the Tramiels were doing.
Oct 14, 2012 · You are making a mistake by comparing video game system specs to Computers in 1986. Computers in 1986 were more advanced than game console were. The Atari 7800 specs were outdated by Computer, but the same thing was true for every game console in North America in 1986.
- How It Started out?
- On The Way to Success
- The Downfall
- Attempting A Comeback
In 1971, Bushnell invented his first video game, Computer Space. And if you have never heard of this game, you are not alone. Computer Space was a dud, it was complicated, and the fact that it was the first arcade video game only made things worse. However, Bushnell was determined to right his wrongs. So, he partnered up with his friend, Ted Dabney...
Pong was a moneymaker for Atari from the moment it was introduced in 1972. More than 8,000 units of Pong arcade machines were sold, and that’s an outstanding figure when compared to one of the most popular arcade games at that time, the Pinball machine, which didn’t sell as many. So Atari was off to a great start indeed. And a few years later, in 1...
Atari enjoyed several years as the market leader before things started to unravel. In November 1978, differences between the top executives at Warner and Nolan Bushnell resulted in Nolan being forced out of the company. And after that, Warner struggled with managing Atari’s employees and alienated nearly all of its best programmers. This led to som...
On June 15, 2021, Atari released the micro-console Atari VCS, designed to pay homage to the Atari 2600. It comes with a decent selection of arcade classics for people who loved the era when Atari used to be a formidable name in the video game industry. The company is also moving away from its free-to-play and mobile strategy games. And now, it is p...
Apr 15, 2021 · Why the Atari 7800 failed. The 7800 had one major problem, and its name was Nintendo. Nintendo’s NES beat the 7800 to market by a few weeks, but that didn’t matter. The NES had two advantages that the 7800 just couldn’t overcome. The first advantage was technical. On second-generation consoles, the gameplay generally took place on a ...
Jun 1, 2021 · But most games developed for Atari were not Pac-Man-level quality, and that ultimately led to the platform’s demise. New research from Maryland Smith pinpoints the best strategies for today’s platforms to curate lots of high-quality content and avoid Atari’s fate.
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Jul 15, 2013 · The 7800 was not an absolute bomb in terms of sales, but it effectively sealed Atari's fate as an eternal non-competitor to Nintendo and Sega. It was all downhill for Atari...
