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Planned Release Date/Last Year Developed or Mentioned Notes/Reasons Crystal Castles: Atari Corporation Atari Corporation January 12, 2008 Port of the 1983 arcade original. Preliminary packaging exists. [13] Electrocop: ICC Atari Corporation June 26, 2007 Conversion of the Atari Lynx original. [14]
The Asteroids Deluxe arcade machine is a vector game, with graphics consisting entirely of lines drawn on a vector monitor, which Atari described as "QuadraScan".The key hardware consists of a 1.5 MHz MOS 6502A CPU, which executes the game program, and the Digital Vector Generator (DVG), the first vector processing circuitry developed by Atari.
A port for the Atari 5200, identical to the Atari 8-bit version, was in development in 1982, but was not published. [21] An Atari 7800 version was published in 1986 with the official launch of the console. It includes cooperative play and colorful bitmapped graphics. [22]
The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console officially released by Atari Corporation in 1986 as the successor to both the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. [4] It can run almost all Atari 2600 cartridges, making it one of the first consoles with backward compatibility .
The Atari VCS (renamed the Atari 2600 in late 1982) was not the first home system with swappable game cartridges, but by 1980 it was the most popular second-generation console by a wide margin. Launched in 1977 just ahead of the collapse of the market for home Pong console clones, the Atari VCS experienced modest sales for its first few years.
Fatal Run is a 1990 post-apocalyptic-themed vehicular combat game developed by Sculptured Software for the Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 and published by Atari Corporation. [1] [2] Along with Klax, this was the last game Atari officially released for the Atari 2600. [3] At 32kB of data, the game was also the biggest ever released for the Atari 2600 ...
RealSports Boxing was released in 1987, whilst a further update of RealSports Baseball for the Atari 7800 platform was released in 1988 as the final RealSports game. A basketball game, RealSports Basketball , was announced but never officially released for the original Atari platforms, [ 1 ] though it was later included on AtGames Flashback ...
The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, [4] are a series of home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800. [5] The architecture is designed around the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 CPU and three custom coprocessors which provide support for sprites , smooth ...