#Retrodude #Retrogaming #Retroforever #Retroconsoles/handhelds #Atari #Top10 #Atari7800 #console The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console officially released by the Atari Corporation in 1986. It is almost fully backward-compatible with the Atari 2600, the first console to have backward compatibility without the use of additional modules. It was considered affordable at a price of US$140 (equivalent to $327 in 2019). The 7800 has significantly improved graphics hardware over the 2600, but uses the same audio chip. It also shipped with a different model of joystick from the 2600-standard CX40. The 1986 launch is sometimes referred to as a "re-release" or "relaunch" because the Atari 7800 had originally been announced on May 21, 1984, to replace Atari Inc.'s Atari 5200, but a general release was shelved due to the sale of the company. History Atari had been facing pressure from Coleco and its ColecoVision console, which supported graphics that more closely mirrored arcade games of the time than either the Atari 2600 or 5200. The Atari 5200 (released as a successor to the Atari 2600) was criticized for not being able to play 2600 games without an adapter. The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first console from Atari, Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation (GCC). It was designed in 1983–1984 with an intended mass market rollout in June 1984, but was canceled shortly thereafter due to the sale of the company to Tramel Technology Ltd on July 2, 1984. The project was originally called the Atari 3600. With a background in creating arcade games such as Food Fight, GCC designed the new system with a graphics architecture similar to arcade machines of the time. Powering the system is a slightly customized 6502 processor, the Atari SALLY (sometimes described as a "6502C"), running at 1.79 MHz. By some measures the 7800 is more powerful, and by others less, than Nintendo's 1983 NES. It uses the 2600's Television Interface Adaptor chip, with the same restrictions, for generating two-channels of audio. ====================================================== You can follow me on social media including My Wishlist -https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/dl/invite/1Z6ZEmd facebook - https://www.facebook.com/aron.glasser twitter- https://twitter.com/AronGlasser instagram - https://www.instagram.com/aronglasser/ tumblr - http://aronglasser-blog.tumblr.com/ Sharree - http://sharree.com/User-Retrodude Nintendo switch friend code : SW-0242-1675- 3234 PlayStation ID : terminator800 Steam : terminator800718 steamcommunity.com/id/Retrodude34/ YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/user/glasser12 Steemit : https://steemit.com/@retrodude Dtube : https://d.tube/#!/c/retrodude Discord : https://discord.gg/UNzxKSE U ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwr20sf6NMw

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