Atari 7800



After it became clear the Atari 5200 was a failure, Atari quickly decided to make a follow-up to it, but the Great Video Game Crash put a halt to their plans and so they moved to the personal computer market, as the damage seemed irreversible. However, once the gaming industry started recovering Atari decided to bring back their project to clean their reputation and thus the Atari 7800 was born. It was too late, however, as Nintendo had already dominated the market at this point, and so the 7800 was sadly overlooked.

The 7800 was a huge step-up from the 5200, being a nice overall machine. While it's library was limited mainly due to Nintendo's policy of not allowing third-parties from publishing games on competing systems, it's major claim to fame at the time was being fully backwards compatible with 2600 games.