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The Atari 5200 SuperSystem or simply Atari 5200 is a home video game console introduced in 1982 by Atari, Inc. as a higher-end complement for the popular Atari Video Computer System. [2] The VCS was renamed to Atari 2600 at the time of the 5200's launch. [ 3 ]
Atari, Inc. Television Interface Adaptor (TIA) 1977 2 Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 video game consoles, Video Music (music visualizer for TV) Combined sound and graphics chip, metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit [1] POKEY: 1979 4 Atari 8-bit, Atari 5200, some Atari arcade machines, certain Atari 7800 cartridges [2] Atari AMY ...
The Atari 2600 sold over 30 million units over its lifetime, considerably more than any other console of the second generation. [33] In 1982, Atari released the Atari 5200 in an attempt to compete with the Intellivision. While superior to the 2600, poor sales and lack of new games meant Atari only supported it for two years before it was ...
General Computer Corporation (GCC), later GCC Technologies, was an American hardware and software company formed in 1981 by Doug Macrae, John Tylko, [1] and Kevin Curran. The company began as a video game developer and created the arcade games Ms. Pac-Man (1982) in-house for Bally MIDWAY and Food Fight (1983) as well as designing the hardware for the Atari 7800 console and many of its games.
[8] [9] [10] It was released as the Video Entertainment System (VES) at the price of $169.95, but renamed to the Channel F the next year. Channel F was unable to compete against Atari's Video Computer System (VCS) as the console only had 22 games compared to Atari's 187. [11]
ANTIC is also used in the 1982 Atari 5200 video game console, which shares most of the same hardware as the 8-bit computers. For every frame of video, ANTIC reads instructions to define the playfield, or background graphics, then delivers a data stream to the companion CTIA or GTIA chip which adds color and overlays sprites (referred to as ...
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
The Atari 2600 version shipped with the Video Touch Pad controller. [20] Star Raiders was released in March 1980. [21] A port was released for the Atari 2600 in 1982, featuring an eight-button touch pad. [20] [22] [23] [24] The following year, the game was ported to Atari 5200, becoming the first game to use all 12 buttons on the console's gamepad.