Atari 5200



The Atari 2600 was dominating the video game market during the second generation, but Atari started to feel a real threat to it's domination, as it's competitors were making more advanced consoles like the ColecoVision and the Intellivision. Of course Atari wouldn't take this shit, so they stepped up the game and created the Atari 5200. It was more or less based on the architecture of the Atari 8-bit computers, and though their games weren't compatible with each other porting them between platforms was very simple.

While the 5200 wasn't a bad console, two major flaws were detrimental to it's success. First, most of it's titles were the same old games all over again, and second, it's controller sucked balls. Not only it's buttons were a chore to use but it's directional, which could turn full 360 degrees, couldn't self-center. Atari promised to fix the damn thing, but then the Great Video Game Crash happened and the rest is history.