Atari reentering the video game hardware market

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Alien Brigade is still joystick compatible though and plays well enough with it.

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Yeah, you're right, I just checked the box and it is joystick compatible. I always played it with the light gun, though. Crossbow could also be used with either the gun or the joystick; I bought that game a few months before getting a light gun for myself, so I actually put some time into that game with the joystick. The light gun greatly improves the gameplay experience.

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Originally Posted by TobalRox

I never played an 7800, only the 2600, so this means little to me. With all the collections on consoles, this seems a little ridiculous. The 7800 didn't have the following that the 2600 did.

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You're right. That is why 15 of the 20 games in this system are 2600 games. The few 7800 games just serve to add some extra flavor.

Besides, some of the 7800 games like Asteroids and Centipede were also present on the 2600 and in arcades--people will still recognize those games, and I doubt they're going to be turned away just because they happen to be the 7800 versions and not the 2600 versions. On the contrary, it might appeal more to people like yourself who never played the 7800--now you can finally see what the 7800 versions were like.

Personally, I'm glad to see the "new" Atari has finally decided to dip into the library of one of their other consoles besides the 2600. All of their previous compilations have been either arcade games or 2600 games--it's nice to see them spice things up a little here and there.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

Really a lame movie, but I enjoyed the Atari references.

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I haven't seen it in over a decade, so I don't know how it'd stack up now. Longtime Atari fans seems to love it for many of the same reasons that longtime Nintendo fans wistfully reminisce on the movie The Wizard.

The 7800 was a good console, I think people would be impressed if they played 7800 Asteroids after seeing 2600 Asteroids. I was kind of hoping the new Atari would relaunch the 2600jr. with built in games plus a slot to take existing carts, but you have to be content with this. It's the first new hardware from Atari to be sold in shops since the Jag. This new retro console is like a fancy Atari "Home Pong" because it's a "dedicated" non programmable console.

Don't discs like this, which have 85 games on it for under $20, just make the idea of this "new Atari console" even more stupid?
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx_assets/pr...ges/245086.jpg

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Originally Posted by Wildkat

As would I.

I find it amazing how one man can kill not ONLY Atari, but Commodore as well.

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One thing the Tramiels were responsible for is that 7800 games generally sound just like the 2600 counterparts. For frick's sake, the 7800 should have had a POKEY chip or perhaps two in it. Did you see any 4-Mega cartridges for the 7800? Hell no. Thank them for that.

It's a shame there wasn't a Millipede for 7800. I found the Atari XL/XE version way too easy.

The 7800 had to be backwards compatible with the 2600, to achieve that in a short space of time GCC used the 2600's TIA chip, and added the 5200's Pokey sound chip to Ballblazer.

Klax and Midnight Mutants plus all those good arcade ports like Xevious, Joust and Dig Dug showed the 7800 had the right stuff. The Rescue On Fractalus proto shows what a cheap fart Tramiel was. :(

Klax

http://www.atariprotos.com/7800/software/klax/klax.htm

Midnight Mutants

http://www.atariprotos.com/7800/soft...t/midnight.htm

Rescue On Fractalus

http://www.atariprotos.com/7800/software/rof/rof.htm

I love these new 'plug into your tv' toys. Nice and retro.

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Originally Posted by Videodrone

I'll buy it, if it's less than $30.

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i think my loal newspaper had it listed for like 40 or 50 in the "feature" they ran.

I looked it up on EBGames.com and it was $49.99