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From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: New Atari Home Video Game (Just a rumor?)
Message-ID: <1253@atari.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 01:46:07 GMT
References: <4934@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <4934@bsu-cs.UUCP>, cptpower@bsu-cs.UUCP (Mike Wildridge) says:
> 
> In article <1027@paris.ics.uci.edu>, mkazmier@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Michael Kazmierczak) writes:
>>Has anyone heard anything about Atari producing a 68000 based
>>home video game system?  Rumors flew several weeks back, but
> 
> The newest game system Atari has out right now is the new XE game system.
> It's called that because it's based on the XE computer.  
> [deleted]
> It's a home computer in  a video games clothing...

It's also got some pretty reasonable games, plus built-in BASIC etc.
And right now there's a $50 refund from Atari going on, so you can get
the whole she-bang for under $100 - includes light-gun, a couple or more
games etc etc. What really hurts is that I bought one at employee (ie dealer)
price for my littl'uns and now Price Club (a local discount store) and
Toys r Us have it for much less!

FYI, and to correct an earlier posting I saw, the other two game systems are
the 7800 which retails officially at around $79.95, and the 2600 at around
$49.95. Both can be discounted (and are!).

Note also that Atari cartridges tend to be much lower cost than some of
the "others", which means that you get more variation for a fixed amount
of 'pocket money'.

Roy Good/Atari