Atari 2600
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The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released c. September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System, it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games
The first Stella prototype on display at the Computer History Museum
The second VCS model has lighter plastic molding and shielding, and a more angular shape, than the 1977 launch model.
Starting in 1980, the VCS has only four front switches and a capital-letters logotype.
CX30 paddle
Atari 7800
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The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console released by Atari Corporation in May 1986 as the successor to both the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. It can run almost all
Atari 2600
…Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel in 1984. In 1986, the new Atari Corporation under Tramiel released a revised, low-cost 2600 model, and the backward-compatible Atari 7800, but it was Nintendo that led the recovery of the industry with the 1985 North American launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Production of the…
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Atari 7800 Console Set
Motherboard of an American 7800 with the RF shielding removed
European motherboard modified by Atari to output RGB through a SCART connector