I played Ninja Golf and its worth the meme alone, and kinda fun!

The prototype 5200 joystick was reportedly much better. But someone decided to do some cost cutting before release, which ruined it.

I had an armory full of handheld games. Tiger, Nintendo and lesser known companies.

I loved my Colecovision, I remember buying Cosmic Avenger in the Bargin Center as a kid.

Remember walking to the Store Christmas morning and seeing my friend garbage and witnessing the empty coleco box ....I was so jealous 😅😅😅😅😅😅The 80s Rocked.

I know the controllers were not good quality, but I can't be the only one that think the design of them looks amazing. Looked ahead of its time.

I love the naming schemes for the machines. 2600x2=5200. 5200+2600=7800. Not to mention the 2600 name was from phone phreaking. 2600 hz. The tone that let you call long distance for free.

Some things I just shake my head at now are video game conspiracy theories and some supposed ephemeral video game "crash" in 1983... there was no noticeable crash. The games just kept coming. And more and more. It never ended. I don't know how this hoax began.

American Sega genesis had way better advertisement that's why everyone went with the genesis and didn't hold back when it came too mature games the guy who was trying to make the genesis sell well was on the right track but japanese idiots didn't like the idea and didn't care for the genesis at all and wanted to be so damn greedy so it wasn't working at so well with them

80s Nes took over but in the 90s Sega Genesis took over

XE Game System...5200 remade, sorta?

I like the fact that Atari brought back the telephone button pad on the controller for their last system, the Jaguar.

Perhaps the biggest problem, which oddly was not mentioned in the video as a problem, was that Atari was trying to recapitalize on arcade games already on the 2600. Same game, slight change. Was the cost of the upgrade worth it? And unlike Coleco and Mattel, both of which positioned their releases on new and untapped games, Atari used the same games with minor system localization changes from their computer line, which you did mention.

What about the XE Game System?

Finally, someone who credits the Adam, and the home computer surge as its failure instead of the alleged 'crash', which only occurred in the North American market and something that almost everyone was oblivious to. People who didn't live back then have very little idea of what exactly took place.

ATARI 65E and ATARI 130E, not ATARI 65XE and ATARI 130XE???

I still play Burgertime a couple of times a week on my Anbernic device. It still holds up.

no one built a console so you could clean it for your video 40 years later. thats an idiotic complaint

U can only compare portables in their screen groups id say

Why are you looking off to the side?

Supposedly, NFL Football was originally supposed to be the pack-in game. Don't know why they didn't go with that. It would've probably put Intellivisions in a LOT more homes.

Oh my GOODNESS that game boy is yellow

And all with 4 bits

I had both growing up it was a fun time

I didn't get into intellivision until 1984. Sears was blowing their super video arcade out for $40 and my mom bought me one. It was my favorite console for years afterwards. I still have it somewhere.

How do you know it has a 100 Kilohertz processor?... I mean I know thats probably accurate but where did you find these specs out?

the issue with colecovision and intellivision was the controllers. they were really bad. what is nice today is that we can use other controllers.

buttons painted like pastel m&m are weird

Aesthetically, it is a 6/5.

A little extra media from this demo reel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q5x2qMtq3qi6aIE.htmlsi=wFTAR22PbI9TXRJk The company I worked for (2Gen) was asked to make some 3D assets and commercial for the system - however the system looks a bit different.

I think you're spot on when you said while the library is small, there are many excellent titles. My top 5 would definitely include Moon Patrol, Robotron, and Defender. There so many to choose from to round out -- Qix, Dig Dug, Vanguard, Jungle Hunt, Scramble... so many excellent arcade ports. In 2024, I have access to digital joysticks for the original hardware so that makes the experience more optimal than the OEM controller.

It may look terrible now but that's because there's so much more to compare it to. When this came out, there wasn't much of anything else but those red-dot LED games. So this was pretty sophisticated by comparison.

I still have my XEGS at my parents' house.

are you blind or something..!?

Growing up I absolutely loved my Atari 7800......at least until I got my NES

Hey, can you imagine what would have happened if atari and nintendo became partners back when nintendo wanted them to distribute the nes and then they became partners with sony when the playstation debacle happened?

I could swap the controllers for a 3rd party yo momma.

Well Atari owns it now

How about doing a video on the Game Cube ??

Great video! Brought back many awesome memories… Kudos to Dad for buying this for me and my brother the year it came out!

I remember it had Mouse Trap that I've never seen.. LOVED the boardgame.. once I seen the controllers, I was like nah, I'm good.

I remember kneeling in front of my friend's TV to play his NES, for the first time, and he handed me the controller, and the D-Pad seemed like an obvious downgrade to the joystick to me, initially. I thought it seemed weak and wouldn't lemd itself to quick direction changes like a joystick. That assumption kept me in the dark ages for at least a couple extra years...

It’s hard to think as a consumer during 1984 as I was a kid. So I really didn’t think there was a crash. After the 2600 I was more into computers and I told my parents how I learned some basic programming and wanted a computer for home. They bought me an Atari 800 and I just continue playing games on that. If the 7800 did come out in 84 I would like to think it would do well mainly because of the backwards compatibility to 2600, as that was one of the big complaints on the 5200. But again I wasn’t a parent during this time so maybe I would have just been done with video games all together.

They should bring it back and updated with old and new versions of the same games

I don't think anything beats it still

I Had 1 My Fav Console Ever

Ive got a model 1 inn my storage somewhere...

I wish there was an emulator that would play genesis roms on my g3 powerbook.

This was my first video game console I think I had it back in 1982. All That remains is the Donkey Kong cart i still have.

Technically, the XE was ahead of it's time. I am sure software, OS's, disk drives, RAM upgrades, etc., would have come a little later in it's lifespan if it was allowed to mature. Towards the end of it's useful life as a game console, it could have been a great 8-bit general-purpose computer.