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From: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: New Atari Home Video Game (Just a rumor?)
Message-ID: <401926c9.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 88 19:32:00 GMT
References: <4934@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1253@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
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In article <1253@atari.UUCP> good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes:
>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

No video game that only supports one-button joysticks is worth $100.
You need at least two to play reasonably complex games.

-Steve