Hi Jim,
Well, The Atari 7800 basically had a lot of the same games as the Atari
2600 and 5200, but thanks to more memory and better graphics technology
the newer releases for the 7800 had more colors, better graphics, and
was just over all better visually.Plus the nice thing about the 7800+
could also play cartrages from the 2600 and 5200 so you could really
play any Atari game on it if you wished. It was definitely Atari's best
console, but the company went bankrupt before the 7800 really had much
of a chance to become popular.
In fact, do to Atari going bankrupt many stores sold their stock of
7800's to Odd Lots, AKA Big Lots, where they were sold at rock bottom
prices. I remember that's how I ended up with my 7800. My mom and dad
purchased a 7800 and several games from Odd Lots, now Big Lots, for
under $100. Over the years I've managed to pick up extra games through
places like Ebay, and thanks to Atari emulators I can play just about
any Atari game I want with my son on the family computer.
On 5/24/2012 6:06 AM, Jim Kitchen wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I never even saw the Atari 7800 machine or any of it's games. I just
had the Atari 2600 and an Atari 800 XL home computer. I now have
trouble remembering which games I played on which machine. But I did
also buy an external five and a quarter floppy drive for the Atari 800
XL home computer. That was the second computer that I wrote games
for. The first was a Texas Instruments 99 4A. And for that computer
I bought a cable that connected to a tape recorder to save files. And
the Atari 800 XL home computer was the first computer that I had that
talked. It was a program named Sams. Not a screen reader, but it
would try to say anything that you typed in. And I mean anything.
That was fun. I wish that the sapi5 voices would try to say anything
that you typed in. It would also be cool if you could make the
sapi5.1 voices sing like the DecTalk. <grin> But games like my draw
poker and star mule I wrote first on those first computers way back when.
BFN
Jim
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