Atari 7800

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Gaming Console History-3rd Gen - Atari 7800

Release Date: 1984 (official release 1986).

Units Sold: 3.77 million

Company:  Atari, Inc., Atari Corporation

In January 1986, the 7800 was relaunched and would compete that year with the Nintendo Entertainment System (mentioned later) and the Sega Master System. It had simple digital joysticks and was almost fully backward-compatible with the Atari 2600, the first console to have backward compatibility without the use of additional modules. 

They justified this relatively low ranking (though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600) with the summary statement: “Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company’s new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a xxxxer way of playing Atari 2600 titles.”

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