Epinions Recent Reviews for Atari 7800

Atari 7800: If you like Atari 2600's this is improvement..

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:12:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author trillig - First of all, the negative review was only one I read here before composing this.

Speaking to his 5200 love, well Atari designed totally different processors and motherboards/slots for the 5200 vs the 2600, so it would have had to make major...

Atari 7800: Atari 7800 - Great Machine, Bad Marketing

Sat, 22 Jun 2002 19:19:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mistrtonee - If you look back to any video game machine of the 1970s and 1980s, you will find that many of the machines from a given generation are similar in alot of ways and different in others. When it came to the Atari 7800, it was a great machine for its time...

Atari 7800: Could have been a contender.

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:01:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author coyote-seven - I first heard of the Atari 7800 Prosystem back in 1984, when the prototype was being featured in a sneak peak in a popular videogame magazine of the era. The glut of horrendous games at the time caused the videogame market to crash, however, and it...

Atari 7800: Atari will not give up.................... but Nintendo could care less

Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:45:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author StarSoldier1 - Atari 7800 Prosystem (1987-1990) The Atari 7800 prosystem is a 8-bit game machine that has near perfect arcade translations of older arcade games like Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, Asteriods and Dig Dug, but also has lousy ports newer arcade...

Atari 7800: Too little, too late

Mon, 1 Jan 2001 06:51:14 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author phungus - First off, you should know that I actually own an Atari 7800 unit. I just purchased it from Ebay and have more games coming. I also own an Atari Jaguar and a 2600. I'm what you might call an old school gamer.

The 7800 was another of Atari's...

Atari 7800: An excellent system - though often misunderstood

Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:46:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Dracmania - The Atari 7800 is arguably my favorite system of all time. I've also owned other Atari machines including the 2600, the XE Game System, the Lynx and the Jaguar. In addition, I've also owned a Sega Master System, a Sega Genesis and Nintendo NES.

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Atari 7800: ATARI

Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:29:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dev124 - Ok, I am I devoted atari fan. I own the Atari 7800 and Atari Jaguar and the CD add-on.

The atari 7800 was the first game system I ever had(actually I did get the odessey and Intellvision, even Socrates before, but this is the one I liked the...

Atari 7800: Grade 3, Chicken Pox and the Birth of an Obsession.

Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:15:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Spikor - Hello, and welcome to another trip down memory lane. On this particular trip, we will be taken back to the far away time of 1986, when a young eight year old was first introduced to the miracles of Console Gaming.

Once upon a time,...

Atari 7800: Arcade Games!! And 2600-backward compatible!

Sun, 24 Sep 2000 15:13:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flindingo - Oh the 7800... What memories it brings back to my youth of plugging it in and playing Food-Fight, Ms. Pac Man, Dig Dug, and Donkey Kong... Oh I remember the days, oh wait! That was yesterday!

It's not a matter of nostalgia or remembrance...

Atari 7800: my first video game system

Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:16:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tommy_lop - The Atari 7800 was my first video game systems, I got it when I was 5 years old. All though the 7800 was definitely behind the NES has far has power goes, it was still a fun machine. Unfortunately my Atari 7800 got fried when I was only 7.

The...

Atari 7800: It should have been successful

Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:34:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Bananaswift - This was Atari's competition for the original Nintendo. This is a nice gaming system. I picked mine up at a garage sale a few years ago with a lot of games for under $20. Before that, I never had heard of an Atari 7800. The thing that makes this...

Atari 7800: Ah, my first negative review...

Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:23:33 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author LiquidSnake -

I have played many, many game systems out there-from the Oddesy II to the Intellivision to the Collecovision to all five Atari consoles (2600,5200,7800, Jaguar & Jaguar CD, Lynx) not to mention the Nintendo and Sega machines, and I own...

Atari 7800: making the best even better

Sat, 26 Aug 2000 07:53:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhouse - In the fall of 1987, my father purchased the “new and improved” Atari 7800 game system to replace the Atari 2600 that finally gave out earlier that year.

I remember my family and I going to Toys-R-Us to buy my sister and I a Nintendo...

Atari 7800: A tribute to unrealized potential

Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:46:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author HawgWyld - This is my favorite machine that Atari ever made. Now, before you Atari 2600 fans start cursing me, let me point out that the very reason it is my favorite "classic" arcade game is that those 2600 carts work on it.

This, in my...