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The Atari 7800 is an 8-bit console developed by Atari Corporation and designed by General Computer ... Planned Release Date/Last Year Developed or Mentioned Notes ...
[14] [23] Atari earned an estimated $150 million in sales from the game, and arcade operators earned a further $500 million from coin drops. [8] Atari had been in the process of manufacturing another vector game, Lunar Lander, but demand for Asteroids was so high "that several hundred Asteroids games were shipped in Lunar Lander cabinets". [24]
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 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.
The Atari 7800 was released in May 1986 [35] and was the successor to the Atari 5200. [36] It was the first console to be backward compatible without additional hardware. It was originally due for launch on May 21, 1984, [ 37 ] but due to the sale of the company the launch did not happen until two years later and, coupled with a small library ...
Atari, Inc. published an Atari 7800 version as one of the system's 13 launch titles in 1984. [12] The Famicom version was re-released as a budget title for the Famicom Disk System in 1990. [13] Versions for the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 were completed but never released. [14] The Atari 2600 port was programmed by Tod Frye. [15]
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 ...
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 ...