Xref: utzoo rec.games.video:1522 comp.sys.atari.st:12750 comp.sys.atari.8bit:2067 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!labrea!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!good 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 Lines: 27 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