Rowsdower70 Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 "For you - Rowsdower from the 70 - have been appointed Omnivisioner of the Game Grid." ~ Atari Adventure Square Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 that thing has to be bigger than a 5200!!!!!! OMG! Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 "This" Summer could by any summer. They didn't mention the year after all. Could be Summer 2020! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Professor Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Atari could have done this if they had released an Atari 400/800 based video game system and keyboard by 1980. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted December 3, 2015 Report Share Posted December 3, 2015 like the lady doing jumping jacks "boingy boingy boingy" nothing like classic game ads AVC Online:atari-video.club VGS website: http://videogamesummit.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakerman Posted December 6, 2015 Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 Atari could have done this if they had released and Atari 400/800 based video game system and keyboard by 1980. All Atari needed was a keyboard for the 5200, that's based on the 400/800. But they didn't release it until '82 of course. They did do it in '88 with the XEGS console though...a bit late by then though. The only really positive thing about the XEGS for many was new cartridge games from Atari for all Atari 8-bits after a drought for a few years. It was a positive for retailers too, and old stock 8-bit carts; I remember going into stores and seeing the XEGS and games and mixed in were old 400/800 cart games with a new sticker slapped on the boxes stating XEGS compatibility! The 7800 should have had the keyboard, and 8-bit peripheral compatibility until it was nixed by the Tramiels...then they go and do it with older 8-bit tech with the XEGS 4 years later than the 7800 should have been released with it all! But hey, INTV dropped the ball too, it took the Adam add-on for Colecovision in '83/84 to finally get something like this! Mattel took the 1980 tech from this lost add-on and made the Aquarius computer in what? '83/84? Console-come-computer and Computer-come-console just never seemed to catch on with the American public, apparently people decided on one or the other, not hybrids. :mellow: Bally was the first ever to try a Hybrid console with the Bally Professional Arcade in the 70's, that you could program like a computer, but unfortunately the "keyboard" was just a keypad...then Magnovox had the flat-touch keyboard on the Odyssey 2, but they didn't seem to ever try and push it as a computer that I recall. "Slugs, he created slugs?...Is this not the work of a complete incompetent? I would have started with Lasers, 8 o'clock, day one."-Evil (Time Bandits) "...burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me..."-theme song (Firefly) "I try to respect him, I really, really do, but he's just such a Smeg-head."-Lister (about Rimmer, Red Dwarf) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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