Trailer Atari 7800+ - Official Announcement Trailer

[Zardnaar]

I bought AV cords for my megadrive years ago so assume they exist for Ataris.

TVs still have AV plugs idk.

Never saw a 7800 over here.

 

[aco175]

I saw half the video just showing the console and controller in cool 'drone fly-over' style. The last bit showed a cheap Mario game ripoff. Don't get me wrong, I loved my 2600 back in the day, but by 86' we moved on to Nintendo.

I would buy another one of the joysticks with 20 games loaded into it and play that again.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Man, this was my first console as a kid and I remember digging it because it was compatible with 2600 games. Of which, I inherited a big box from my older cousins. But yeah, 7800 games at $30 is a tough sell.

Considering the Atari Classics collections go for about $20 with tons of games on each, on a system a person probably already owns, yeah, that's a big ask.

 

[Deset Gled]

I don’t think that’s it’s hard to find the old game consoles, price notwithstanding, but getting them to work with modern televisions is probably the bigger issue.

The biggest issue with Atari hardware is often the paddles. Notice that the trailer talks about the joystick/pad but doesn't say anything about the paddles?

Atari sells a replacement paddle on their site, but it has some bad reviews. I've also heard mixed reviews of the Hyperkin dail controller. Doing your own surgery to replace some parts seems to be the best option. It's hard to get a good analog absolute positioning system in today's digital world.

 

[MGibster]

I saw half the video just showing the console and controller in cool 'drone fly-over' style. The last bit showed a cheap Mario game ripoff. Don't get me wrong, I loved my 2600 back in the day, but by 86' we moved on to Nintendo.

I cannot recall anyone owning an Atari 7800. Even by 1985, I still had my Atari, but I don't know if any of my friends still had theirs. After 1983 or 1984, when I went to a friend's house we weren't playing Atari, Colecovision, or some other video game system until 1986 when the Nintendo came out. I didn't get a Nintendo until 1987 by which time Nintendo had sold more than a million units compared to the Atari 7800's 100,000 or so units.

 

[Kaodi]

I am old enough to have bought an Atari at a garage sale and understood what it was but not old enough to really understand what the numbers represent. When I first saw this post I thought they were actually launching a new console. That would have been interesting.

 

[Zardnaar]

My atari 2600 soldered on until 1990. Didn't even see an NES until 1989.

We knew they existed due to magazines and a friend who visited Japan. Everyone had Sega later on.

 

[Stalker0]

so...wait a minute. I can buy a nes like console with controller and everything, and it comes preinstalled with EVERY GAME on NES pretty much.

But this thing....are you really paying modern money for 1980s hardware and no actual games?

 

[R_J_K75]

Whatever happened to the last "new" Atari that was coming out?

I think the E.T. Atari 2600 cartridge single handedly made it "Phone Home".