i remember wanting a 7800 cause all my friends had a 2600 and at first i wanted a 2600, but then heard that the 7800 could play games for both systems, and ofcourse it was the newest Atari game system.
I never got it though. I ended up getteing a Sega Master System, which was also a very cool system.
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Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800 will also show wrong colors if you play a PAL game on an NTSC system or vice versa, and that applies to emulation as well. So that's also a possibility.
It's rare when old official sales reports surface many years later so I figured I would post this here if anyone's interested. From 1986-1990, the 7800 sold over 3.7 million units. That's more than I expected. Figures for the XE and 2600 in this period are going to be put up at atariage soon.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index...&#entry1756601
Some individual game sales were added up here - http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132000
And for the original post, there's a mistake: 7800 Food Fight wasn't a home exclusive. There was an XE version as well.
Very interesting numbers.
I found this article ("Atari, Sega, and Nintendo Plan Comeback for Video Games") from June 1986 recently. Contrary to popular belief, the 7800 was not pushed out because Nintendo was doing so well (the NES didn't REALLY take off until '87 or '88, anyway). It was actually released (re-released?) that January because of strong 2600 sales the previous Christmas. Keep in mind that on Christmas 1985, there was no Master System, and the NES hadn't gone nationwide yet.
readt that digit press post, I am one of only 400 with Ninja Golf? WTF?
I remember getting the nes and my buddy matt got the 7800. Out of the gate we enjoyed his system more (food fight, dig dug, etc) but the nes was a monster and when rbi baseball and ninja gaiden came out it was game over.
Interesting. A January 1986 7800 launch would slightly predate the nationwide NES launch. I had thought the 7800 was released closer to the SMS that year.
It's not quite that rare. The game came out in 1990 and those numbers aren't including 1991 sales.Originally Posted by Othello
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