Atari 7800 Specs:

CPU : 6502C
RAM : 4K
ROM : 4K BIOS ROM
CPU SPEED : 1.79 Mhz
GRAPHICS SPEED : 7.16 Mhz
STORAGE: 32K Cartridge ROM
BANKSWITCHING : No
SOUND : TIA Custom Sound
RESOLUTION : 320 X 200
COLORS : 256
PORTS :
› 2 Controller Ports
› 1 Cartridge Bay
› 1 Expansion Bay
› R/F Outs
› Power Input

1984 ATARI Catalogue, the first to feature the new Atari 7800 ProSystem, and the only to ever feature all three generations of Atari home game systems side by side.

"Business is war." ~Jack Tramiel - 1985

The Atari 7800 ProSystem, known simply as the 7800 to Atari gamers, was Atari's attempt to save the dying videogame industry by launching a new generation of videogames which was to be far superior to those of previous genres. This new generation pioneered by the 7800 was to be the modern 8-bit era of the late 1980's. Early on in 1983, Atari surveyed gamers to begin to find out what they wanted in a home Atari system. More importantly, Atari listened. Gamers wanted a powerful game system that could produce arcade-quality graphics, would be simple to use with sleek, responsive controllers, offered out of the box reverse-compatability with the Atari 2600 and its existing components, and would all be packaged in a sleek compact design. ...And thats exactly what Atari gave them. Gone was the bulky beast of the 5200 and its flimsy complicated analog controllers, and in came the new era of the sleek yet sothical Atari 7800 ProSystem, elegantly designed to carry a big punch in a little package.

All in all, the Atari 7800 was the answer to many questions posed by gamers during the mid 1980's. The 7800 brings home to gamers everything they had been pleading for, it went above and beyond anything Atari had previously produced, bringing home classic games such as Asteroids, Galaga, Dig Dug, Ms. Pac-Man, and Pole Position II in true-to-arcade quality graphics, color and sound. What's more, the 7800 is fully compatiable with most all of the 2600 software and accessories, as to add an immediate library of software avalable to 7800 players, and keep the Atari lineage alive. A high score cartridge and computer component had also been designed for release with the system, adding a game save option and full computer capabilities to the already powerful system. The 7800 ProSystem was living functional proof of what Atari could do, how much they could innovate, and just how far they could dream. The Atari 7800 was more than just a game system, it was a window into a dream world. The world of Atari. <MORE>

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"Ahh, if not me, then someone else would have, maybe a bit later. I think that in some ways it was serendipity." ~Nolan Bushnell on being the Father of Videogames - 2001

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