atari 7800 was doomed from the start due to its use of a "pointer" grafx system to display visuals instead of the more common "tiled" system used by the nes, genesis, snes etc. basically it meant the atari 7800 could not easily scroll its backgrounds like the other systems could, but youll be hard pressed to catch the 7800 with flicker, slowdown, or sprite rips (nes & snes were notorious for it). truthfully, take it from an expert, ninja golf is the only good game on the 7800. otherwise, the sy
LOL, I think the NES had all these, except for the sports games (which there were many to choose from on the NES). Not dogging the 7800, but this seems like a really bad commercial.
@thevideogamenerd100 No, you're thinking of the movie. There really WAS a game called "Impossible Mission." I used to play it as a kid on the Commodore 64. The game had absolutely nothing to do with the movie.
Yes, there was a US National Video Game team that competed against players from Canada, Japan, England, and Germany. The team was originally started as part of Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard during the Arcade era (1982-ish). It was later operated by Steve Harris and Electronic Gaming Monthly where team members did commercials, videos, books, and worked at conventions for video game publishers to promote their games. Several team members went into game development.
OMG what a dork. This is embarrassing. "I like playing shit games on my crippled Atari 7800 and looking like a total gaylord." They look like Apple II games or Commodore 64 games.
@AtariMaxx you can get kaido racer and other jap games new for ps2 for 20$.... but thats too old school for the mainstream, even though theirs nothing wrong with it.
Probably the choice for ASSHOLES xD. Well, it was a good system but it was released too late. I mean they were still trying to promote their console with games that were already too old, like pac man (btw pac man rocks).
@NineTailsDemonFox Karateka,That game had horrible unresponsive controls!!My 7800 still works 24 years later,unlike other systems,I think I went through like 5 or 6 Playstations!!
@MrIronSabbath wow who gives a fuck about your shitty playstations? I was just saying I never heard of the game Karatica. Jesus kid - give people a break and calm the fuck down.
Uhhhh....Not a good idea to promote Mario Bros. on the 7800 when the Nintendo Entertainment System is out as your competitor...and promoting SUPER Mario Bros.
Believe it or not, this was a REAL TEAM! In fact, they used to compete on old arcade systems, particularly Pac-Man. This guy in the commercial now works for Jakks-Pacific. It's one of those companies that makes the retro-atari game thingies.
I had one of these. Mainly to play 2600 games. I had very few actual 7800 games (I had nintendo and genesis at the time, it was not a high priority). It could have been a good system but Atari screwed it up. See my comment in classic gaming review for more information. This could have been the great classic arcade system had Atari not screwed it up.
Haha, the US National Video Game Team...aka, the founders of EGM. I still remember the tips-n-tricks videotape they made before founding the magazine. Fun stuff.
First off, I don't remember this. I was born in the early 90's, so I have the experience of owning the 7800 back in the day. However, I got one recently and it is a fanstasic system. Lots of great arcade ports. So, don't chirp this system...
Sure, the Atari 7800 had 8-bit graphics. But I wonder if the 7800 hardware was capable of handling the types of games that made the NES and Master System famous (i.e. Legend of Zelda, Dragon Warrior/Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, Hokuto No Ken/Black Belt, Megaman, Alex Kidd, Streets of Rage, etc.).
@WeAreDevo456 Two words: Ball Blazer. Look up the 7800 version and the NES one. (And it prolly could. The limits would have definitely needed to be pushed.
Atari and NES will always be the choice of the experts.
In 20, 30 years people will still play games like Counqest Of Mars, Mario arcade, Popeye, Pacman, Super Mario Brothers and Castlevania.
Ps3 and Xbox360 has better and more realistic games. That's it. Nothing more then fancy graphics. No replay value what so ever. Except for Wii, that is a great console. With options to download NES, SNES and N64 games so you can play them on your widescreen tv.
Did anyone notice that when he puts the 2600 game in, it's like just barely hanging out there? He just kind of places it in there. That's always been the weirdest thing to me.
Wow, how did Steve Harris and crew pull that off? Somebody should send this to EGM and see what they think. Donn Nauert ended up working in the games industry back in the '90s. I wonder what he's up to today?
@justsaymint Are you twelve? Sure, they fell hard because their executives sucked and made some of the most idiotic choices in history, but Atari *is* the reason the videogame industry exists today, give them some respect.
@andoc Actually, you can thank both magnavox and nintendo for the video game industry today. Magnavox created the industry, Atari helped kill the it for a while, then Nintendo brought it back.
@Maus5000 No, here's how it went. Yes, Magnavox did technically create the home video game industry, but only a few consoles were made after that. Most of the games on the home market weren't systems, but Pong Consoles. Pong was the first commercially successful video game, and who made that? Atari! And who popularized the home console? Atari! Basically, Magnavox laid the foundation, Atari built upon, and crashed it, while Nintendo rebuilt it.
@andoc Atari 7800 was a fantastic console. The problem was that the execs were moving towards home computing and didn't give their new console the time and energy it should have gotten. The atari 7800 had a 2600 built in soundchip. In order to take full advantage of it's sound capabilities game makers had to input their own separate sound chips in to the games. Needless to say most didn't. It was a great console. The technology was a year ahead of the nes it could have easily taken it's glory.
@andoc *exists as we know it. Someone would have inevitably created video games if Atari hadn't. So I don't give them as much credit as everyone else does... good system though.
Well if you want a system with lots of Arcade hits you get the 7800.If you want a system with alot of side scrollers you get the NES they were both great systems.
The Atari 7800 was ok, it was pretty cool, but it could not touch the NES. 1st off, not enough games for it. Big deal, it could play 2600 games. People were sick of 2600 games & wanted NEW games. Anyway, I have a real 2600, 5200, 7800, & NES (& emulators for them). They are all cool & I play them depending on my specific wants & mood at the time. I like them ALL & would never want to choose or have to trade 1 for the other. I want them all! "Give me, EVERYTHING!" (inside Atari 2600 joke)
Actually, I can't believe it, but I take back what I said about that controller. I just switched to my right hand, and held it like the handle of a gun, and I actually find it to be a fun controller. An improvement on the 2600 joystick controller.
"Most games cost under $20" I WISH THEY STILL DID!! Many of the ones I want are expensive nowadays.
They need to try to make games cost less. You know they don't all cost that much to make. Think how much more stuff there is in Super Smash Brothers Brawl than in some of the other games. They still cost 50$.
He's not even playing with that joystick. He's twisting it, as if it's a paddle controller. He's not truly demonstrating what a nightmare it is trying to play with that crappy controller.
You know they had this contest, where if you bought 25 Atari 7800 games and then wrote an essay you could win a trip to california, that I can't believe they advertised Karateka, that game on the 7800 is unplayable, however the commodore version is awsome
atari screwed the pooch BIG TIME with the marketing of their jaguar system. it was YEARS ahead of everything else at the time, but guess what...no good games.
Hmmm... no, that isn't quite true. The Jaguar had quite a decent library of games. The problem was that it claimed to be "64-bit" when in reality it was comparable to the 16-bit consoles.
Tempest 2000 wasn't that clever visually, it was really just an enhancement of the 1982 8-bit vector graphics game, with some minor 3D bits added. It certainly wasn't a true 64-bit game, it was just trying to squeeze the most out of a limited console, which the Jaguar was.
Check out the "View all comments" page - look at the three thumbnails. It's like a short graphical story - in the first one Donn plays Mario Bros. and looks like a crybaby that didn't get his pacifier. Then in the second thumbnail he plays baseball. In the third picture he looks like he is angry and and says: "This games sucks. DO NOT WANT."
LOL, these are some funny physiognomies.
P.S. LOL at AshtonJX's comment - he's right. Donn is my hero! ♥ Weeeeee!
The 7800 was actually decent, however it came out too late to matter because Nintendo and Sega came out. The 7800 SHOULD have been the 5200 and would have been beaten out Colecovison. Atari waited too long
The 7800 didn't really bring anything NEW to the table, but i believe it was the first backwards compatible platform, so i guess you have to thank it for being able to play your, PS and PS2 games on your PS3.
Yeah, Sony pretty much screwed most of Europe with PS2 compatibility only being on the 60gb edition which was only sold for a VERY limited time, plus their pricing.
The 7800 was so far behind the times. It had mostly old tired arcade games. And I don't think anything really showed what the 7800 could really do graphically.
I guwaa you enjoy paying $40-$60 for today's games.What the hell is wrong with the price of the games you would want them to be cheap right? or do you enjoy paying an arm and a leg for a game?
What's wrong with my statement? Are you saying that cheaply made things are more often better than the more expensive versions? In most cases that is not the case. Not that it really matters, but I was around back then, and the game quality just got worse and worse. Nintendo saved the video game industry back then.
Don Nauert would later show kids tips on how to beat Nintendo games on those "Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes, and Strategies (for Nintendo Compatible games)" series that were sold on video cassette from MPI Home Video.
I saw this man on the news, he has a unkept beard and is a posted child molester now. I think the news of atari going under caused him to end his life so he wrote his atari title on his grave marker how sad.
Geesh, I remember years ago, me and my friends use to joke around what-if their was a Atari video game master since their was a cartoon on tv about the video game master of Nintendo known as Captain N. Now I see Atari had their own Video game master known as Donn Nauert or aka Captain Atari Nauert. LOL.
I never had a 7800 Atari tho, I heard it was ten times better than the 2600 but had lame controlers that break too easy. Atleast that's why people told me who own one back in the day. When the Nintendo console came out in 1985 it pretty much blow the Atari of the water. So was Atari the first video game console to have backward Com. since they mention in the commerical it can play 2600 games also.
atari 7800 was doomed from the start due to its use of a "pointer" grafx system to display visuals instead of the more common "tiled" system used by the nes, genesis, snes etc. basically it meant the atari 7800 could not easily scroll its backgrounds like the other systems could, but youll be hard pressed to catch the 7800 with flicker, slowdown, or sprite rips (nes & snes were notorious for it). truthfully, take it from an expert, ninja golf is the only good game on the 7800. otherwise, the sy
demonsty 4 days ago
the game "Impossible Mission" was Impossible to beat due to a glitch in the game.....talk about screwing that up!
gopconservative78 1 week ago
That guy is probably an old geezer now!
Rizzbotchimps 2 weeks ago
The announcer pronounced the word "Karateka" correctly. I am stunned.
Tempora158 1 month ago
Love the 7800. Not as popular as the Sega Master System or Nintendo but still a fun console
EastCoastDude99 2 months ago
When will it be released?
BigDuke6ixx 4 months ago
Holy cow , look at those graphics !!!
iEugene1994 4 months ago
LOL, I think the NES had all these, except for the sports games (which there were many to choose from on the NES). Not dogging the 7800, but this seems like a really bad commercial.
worknman2k 4 months ago
THIS WAS A FUN SYSTEM
DREQON2005 4 months ago
it's Mission: Impossible not Impossible Mission :/
thevideogamenerd100 5 months ago
@thevideogamenerd100 No, you're thinking of the movie. There really WAS a game called "Impossible Mission." I used to play it as a kid on the Commodore 64. The game had absolutely nothing to do with the movie.
MrDemonSushi 5 months ago
@yucky2322 it was available for a lot of systems
oldcarlover14 6 months ago
Yes, there was a US National Video Game team that competed against players from Canada, Japan, England, and Germany. The team was originally started as part of Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard during the Arcade era (1982-ish). It was later operated by Steve Harris and Electronic Gaming Monthly where team members did commercials, videos, books, and worked at conventions for video game publishers to promote their games. Several team members went into game development.
DWNTEX 6 months ago
Did we even have a professional video game team?
zombiebros779 6 months ago
0:07 that guy is so hardcore, he can play without looking at the screen.
fabiopl 7 months ago
OMG what a dork. This is embarrassing. "I like playing shit games on my crippled Atari 7800 and looking like a total gaylord." They look like Apple II games or Commodore 64 games.
SpreadingTruths 7 months ago
@SpreadingTruths What you said is correct since both those were also out in 1987.
uofm97 4 weeks ago
I LIKE CUZ THE GAMES COST 120 BUCKS
F*CK INFLATION!!!!
Seiga 8 months ago
@Seiga Under 20 bucks, just kidding
Seiga 8 months ago
The video game industry could sell their games for $20 and still make a decent profit. 70 bucks for a new game is robbery.
bagelsandstuff 10 months ago
Most games cost under $20? Yeah, that was for a reson. 7800 blows.
WebVMan 11 months ago
@WebVMan, No it didn't. The CONTROLLERS sucked, not the console itself.
Ollie7475 10 months ago
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fredjerk69 1 year ago
impossibru!!!
jcnbw01 1 year ago
Impossible mission? lol
TheSegafrogz 1 year ago
Most games were under $20,,, only if it was like that now.
AtariMaxx 1 year ago 13
@AtariMaxx you can get kaido racer and other jap games new for ps2 for 20$.... but thats too old school for the mainstream, even though theirs nothing wrong with it.
Crazybenjiwoo 11 months ago
@AtariMaxx Maybe you should visit Australia...
YodatheJedi12 10 months ago
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SANxJONERO 3 months ago
This guy made love to a man so YOU wouldn't have to!!
toptenmaterial 1 year ago
This was my first eever game console back in the late 80's .............. loved it
StudentOfLife81 1 year ago
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Probably the choice for ASSHOLES xD. Well, it was a good system but it was released too late. I mean they were still trying to promote their console with games that were already too old, like pac man (btw pac man rocks).
darkplan 1 year ago
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darkplan 1 year ago
karatica? wtf?
NineTailsDemonFox 1 year ago
@NineTailsDemonFox Karateka,That game had horrible unresponsive controls!!My 7800 still works 24 years later,unlike other systems,I think I went through like 5 or 6 Playstations!!
MrIronSabbath 1 year ago
@MrIronSabbath wow who gives a fuck about your shitty playstations? I was just saying I never heard of the game Karatica. Jesus kid - give people a break and calm the fuck down.
NineTailsDemonFox 1 year ago
Uhhhh....Not a good idea to promote Mario Bros. on the 7800 when the Nintendo Entertainment System is out as your competitor...and promoting SUPER Mario Bros.
johnlucas1 1 year ago
SERIOUS
VIDEO GAME
EXPERT
Urmean15 1 year ago
So is being autistic a requirement for joining the Olympic Video Game team?
CalBro 1 year ago
It was realised too late, I guees, and what about the games? NES had better games.
RetroStacja 1 year ago
Believe it or not, this was a REAL TEAM! In fact, they used to compete on old arcade systems, particularly Pac-Man. This guy in the commercial now works for Jakks-Pacific. It's one of those companies that makes the retro-atari game thingies.
jsbrnnetwork 1 year ago
I had one of these. Mainly to play 2600 games. I had very few actual 7800 games (I had nintendo and genesis at the time, it was not a high priority). It could have been a good system but Atari screwed it up. See my comment in classic gaming review for more information. This could have been the great classic arcade system had Atari not screwed it up.
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DJhiphouse 1 year ago
He's almost as fake as chef excellence! IT's funny coz the NES was better
Mikeys9607TE 1 year ago
I just lost a bid for a 7800 BY $2. Life sucks :(
LMGgaming 1 year ago
@LMGgaming E-bay = E-pay.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
Atari 7800 Is Classic :D
RetroGameReviews101 1 year ago
He's not even playing the 7800. He's just mashing buttons while someone else plays.
Loruxz25 1 year ago
Haha, the US National Video Game Team...aka, the founders of EGM. I still remember the tips-n-tricks videotape they made before founding the magazine. Fun stuff.
gamesDAMNED 1 year ago
LMAO that guy is such a tool.
AsellusPrimus 1 year ago
First off, I don't remember this. I was born in the early 90's, so I have the experience of owning the 7800 back in the day. However, I got one recently and it is a fanstasic system. Lots of great arcade ports. So, don't chirp this system...
potsy5656 1 year ago
Most games cost $120??????
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!
And he acullaly likes that price?
What is wrong with that person?
PalkiaLegends 1 year ago
@PalkiaLegends are you kidding me
xCat5782x 1 year ago
@PalkiaLegends NO he said 20$ not 120$.
14jstorm 1 year ago
@PalkiaLegends He said most games are UNDER $20
ChicoEdge 1 year ago
@PalkiaLegends ahahahahahahah your comment made me laugh
darkplan 1 year ago
I want one!
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
20 bucks for a new game? I wish
ZiggyMoonpowder 1 year ago
this commercial lies....there were some 2600 games that weren't compatible with the 7800.
phunqsauce 1 year ago
@phunqsauce that's true. i have both systems still. lol.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago
well most of the games cost under 5 bucks now so now is the perfect time to get one
zdog95ster 1 year ago
The "U.S. Video Game Team"? Might as well cut your cock off and pee out of the hole; you ain't gonna use it for anything else.
kevchod 1 year ago
@kevchod There are many gamers who get married.
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
Sure, the Atari 7800 had 8-bit graphics. But I wonder if the 7800 hardware was capable of handling the types of games that made the NES and Master System famous (i.e. Legend of Zelda, Dragon Warrior/Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, Hokuto No Ken/Black Belt, Megaman, Alex Kidd, Streets of Rage, etc.).
WeAreDevo456 1 year ago
@WeAreDevo456 Two words: Ball Blazer. Look up the 7800 version and the NES one. (And it prolly could. The limits would have definitely needed to be pushed.
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
that looks like shit compared to ps3 commercials
laff100 1 year ago
real smart. Why don't you compare a Model T to a 2010 Corvette.
Hello, that was a long time ago.
elgatoshadow 1 year ago
@laff100 Unfortunately, the Ps3 is shit compared to the Atari's.
sleinfer 1 year ago
@sleinfer
yes of course they are classics
laff100 1 year ago
@laff100 PS3 fag.
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
Was there really a "U.S. Video Game Team"? how gay is that? ._.
otharennaur 1 year ago
I love how he doesn't even insert the Solaris cart fully. He just places it into the slot, but doesn't push it down.
smokeverbs 1 year ago
@smokeverbs He got cramps cuz he captain.
mikechicago 1 year ago
Good idea Atari. Get people to buy your system over the NES by starting out the commercial showing Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Junior.
TheAtariJunkie 1 year ago
I thought the choice of the experts was the NES? Atari 7800 was cool and all, but NES owned it
Beltzer0072 1 year ago
Atari and NES will always be the choice of the experts.
In 20, 30 years people will still play games like Counqest Of Mars, Mario arcade, Popeye, Pacman, Super Mario Brothers and Castlevania.
Ps3 and Xbox360 has better and more realistic games. That's it. Nothing more then fancy graphics. No replay value what so ever. Except for Wii, that is a great console. With options to download NES, SNES and N64 games so you can play them on your widescreen tv.
dykbojen123 1 year ago 3
@dykbojen123 um wrong. lololololololololol. get some friends and then you might have fun with ur ps3 or 360 noob, lololololololol.
elti54 1 year ago
@elti54 Excuse me, what game is dominating the market right now... RIGHT! Wii!
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sictwistedfreak 1 year ago
we had a nationally competing video game team??
TheOneAndOnly699 1 year ago
$120 for an atari 7800?!? shit that's a little bit to expensive
nintendoking6469 1 year ago
Did anyone notice that when he puts the 2600 game in, it's like just barely hanging out there? He just kind of places it in there. That's always been the weirdest thing to me.
natenaterson 1 year ago
0:20 YES Solaris!!! THAT GAME IS FUCKING FANTASTIC!!!!!
Skimaskkass 1 year ago
ahah, he looked so fake at the end... xD
johnrock882 1 year ago
He's an expert and is looking away from the TV while playing games.
doubleot 1 year ago 4
Wow, how did Steve Harris and crew pull that off? Somebody should send this to EGM and see what they think. Donn Nauert ended up working in the games industry back in the '90s. I wonder what he's up to today?
gamesDAMNED 1 year ago
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TheBillbot 1 year ago
Video Game Expert?
Epic...
rynoboy007 1 year ago
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atari sucks
justsaymint 1 year ago
@justsaymint Are you twelve? Sure, they fell hard because their executives sucked and made some of the most idiotic choices in history, but Atari *is* the reason the videogame industry exists today, give them some respect.
andoc 1 year ago 39
@andoc Actually, you can thank both magnavox and nintendo for the video game industry today. Magnavox created the industry, Atari helped kill the it for a while, then Nintendo brought it back.
Maus5000 1 year ago
@Maus5000 No, here's how it went. Yes, Magnavox did technically create the home video game industry, but only a few consoles were made after that. Most of the games on the home market weren't systems, but Pong Consoles. Pong was the first commercially successful video game, and who made that? Atari! And who popularized the home console? Atari! Basically, Magnavox laid the foundation, Atari built upon, and crashed it, while Nintendo rebuilt it.
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago 5
@andoc Atari 7800 was a fantastic console. The problem was that the execs were moving towards home computing and didn't give their new console the time and energy it should have gotten. The atari 7800 had a 2600 built in soundchip. In order to take full advantage of it's sound capabilities game makers had to input their own separate sound chips in to the games. Needless to say most didn't. It was a great console. The technology was a year ahead of the nes it could have easily taken it's glory.
Luigi84289 1 year ago
@andoc *exists as we know it. Someone would have inevitably created video games if Atari hadn't. So I don't give them as much credit as everyone else does... good system though.
Darkozl 1 year ago
@andoc Not really. If they hadn't done it, someone else would have.
pasinurminen2233 9 months ago
@justsaymint what do you mine atari sucks
weicxiable 1 year ago
@justsaymint Gtfo you stupid ass little 5 year old,you were born during the birth of the gamecube so you wouldnt understand dipshit
THEARBITER641 1 year ago
Well if you want a system with lots of Arcade hits you get the 7800.If you want a system with alot of side scrollers you get the NES they were both great systems.
TheBillbot 1 year ago 21
Yep!
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
@TheBillbot Problem is, is that the NES had all the arcade hits aswell.
ryanredz 10 months ago 2
when he's playing the 7800, why is he stroking the buttons?
erodrigez993 1 year ago
The 7800 was Great but the Nes was a tiny bit better
TheBillbot 2 years ago
I would say the NES was a lot better. And before you go flaming my @ss, I actually owned a 7800 along with a NES and I enjoyed playing both.
andoc 2 years ago 3
Its cool, my dad still has his from college and I play it every so often. Desert Falcon owns.
Oldkt 2 years ago 2
i love Desert Falcon. Mario Bros was good for it too, and Xenophobe looked and played better than its NES counterpart.
SmokePropaganda 2 years ago
@SmokePropaganda Mhmm indeed my friend. I also play the old summer games for the 2600 with the backwards compatiblilty.
Oldkt 2 years ago
id love to see a Modern Desert Falcon
I like that game because it was similar to another favorite shootemup game of mine ZAXXON
SmokePropaganda 2 years ago
The Atari 7800 was ok, it was pretty cool, but it could not touch the NES. 1st off, not enough games for it. Big deal, it could play 2600 games. People were sick of 2600 games & wanted NEW games. Anyway, I have a real 2600, 5200, 7800, & NES (& emulators for them). They are all cool & I play them depending on my specific wants & mood at the time. I like them ALL & would never want to choose or have to trade 1 for the other. I want them all! "Give me, EVERYTHING!" (inside Atari 2600 joke)
gjc82071 2 years ago
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I'm an expert & I chose a Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987 & laughed at the kids that chose the 7800.
wingnut4427 2 years ago
Cost under 20 Bucks! LOL
Fusionfaller334 2 years ago
Actually, I can't believe it, but I take back what I said about that controller. I just switched to my right hand, and held it like the handle of a gun, and I actually find it to be a fun controller. An improvement on the 2600 joystick controller.
"Most games cost under $20" I WISH THEY STILL DID!! Many of the ones I want are expensive nowadays.
dogeymon83 2 years ago 2
They need to try to make games cost less. You know they don't all cost that much to make. Think how much more stuff there is in Super Smash Brothers Brawl than in some of the other games. They still cost 50$.
KedViper 2 years ago
Captain of the U.S. Video Game tea ROFL WTF?!?!
jdhoffman1221 2 years ago
Dude, who could afford this unit? No one could even afford the 5200!
cantsdemort 2 years ago
7800 was way affordable. Are you kidding?
dogeymon83 2 years ago
I was ten years old when it came out, too expensive for me on a paper route salary. :)
cantsdemort 2 years ago
the thing was 140 usd at start the NES and SMS were 200 dollars at start
aznjohn15 2 years ago
He's not even playing with that joystick. He's twisting it, as if it's a paddle controller. He's not truly demonstrating what a nightmare it is trying to play with that crappy controller.
dogeymon83 2 years ago 2
like a ps3 xD
Cerpantoman 2 years ago
I like Wii better.
Bittergamer1886 2 years ago
Don Nauert HAHAHAHA....... who????? Pulled him off the street and put a jacket on him that made him look like a NASCAR racer.
Its all just carefully worded so as to distract you into thinking that some sort of "professional" is recommending 7800.
dogeymon83 2 years ago
haha hes an expert...whatta noob
BranOfTheDon 2 years ago
You know they had this contest, where if you bought 25 Atari 7800 games and then wrote an essay you could win a trip to california, that I can't believe they advertised Karateka, that game on the 7800 is unplayable, however the commodore version is awsome
Videogamehistorian00 2 years ago
atari screwed the pooch BIG TIME with the marketing of their jaguar system. it was YEARS ahead of everything else at the time, but guess what...no good games.
smincer 2 years ago
Hmmm... no, that isn't quite true. The Jaguar had quite a decent library of games. The problem was that it claimed to be "64-bit" when in reality it was comparable to the 16-bit consoles.
adog262 2 years ago
Well, it WAS 64-bit. In some games, it truly was. If you've ever seen Tempest 2000, that definitely showed 64-bit graphics.
And even later titles by Songbird REALLY REALLY showed it was a 64-bit powerhouse.
dogeymon83 2 years ago
I'll believe that since there happens to be no Tempest 2000 for Nintendo DSi... :(
adog262 2 years ago
@dogeymon83 - As a software developer, I must say that I am absolutely horrified by your ignorance of computer architecture.
thewiirocks 2 years ago 2
Amen brother.
kurisux 2 years ago
Tempest 2000 wasn't that clever visually, it was really just an enhancement of the 1982 8-bit vector graphics game, with some minor 3D bits added. It certainly wasn't a true 64-bit game, it was just trying to squeeze the most out of a limited console, which the Jaguar was.
mukatuna 2 years ago
@mukatuna It was a fun game, but it didn't actually push the Jaguar
DracIsBack 2 years ago
Wholly shit!!!! I'm feeling old!
macksuperliner1982 2 years ago 2
lol hes a horrible speaking
i honestly belive hes doing it for weed
owensed01 2 years ago
WTF!? 120$ F*CK
AaronMeaney9 2 years ago
Check out the "View all comments" page - look at the three thumbnails. It's like a short graphical story - in the first one Donn plays Mario Bros. and looks like a crybaby that didn't get his pacifier. Then in the second thumbnail he plays baseball. In the third picture he looks like he is angry and and says: "This games sucks. DO NOT WANT."
LOL, these are some funny physiognomies.
P.S. LOL at AshtonJX's comment - he's right. Donn is my hero! ♥ Weeeeee!
ROFL
WTFBOOMDOOM 2 years ago
It was at this point that mankind decided you can't advertise a video game system like a car. It doesn't work.
UberMan5000 2 years ago
Donn Nauert in effect. As I recall, this guy had a ton of scores up on the EGM high score list. I remember trying to beat a few and failed miserably.
cybersalad 2 years ago
The 7800 was actually decent, however it came out too late to matter because Nintendo and Sega came out. The 7800 SHOULD have been the 5200 and would have been beaten out Colecovison. Atari waited too long
pooyan6969 2 years ago 3
it was not that good but it video game console
ian7128 2 years ago
Isn't this the Atari system with the defective controllers?
redcat608 2 years ago
That's 5200 I think.
malware872 2 years ago
ya but mine still work perfect from when I bought it
AtariSalesman14 2 years ago
nah, thats the 5200
MyCubicleRomance 2 years ago 2
hope the next nintendo console can play wii and gamecube games.
koopa0999 2 years ago
The 7800 didn't really bring anything NEW to the table, but i believe it was the first backwards compatible platform, so i guess you have to thank it for being able to play your, PS and PS2 games on your PS3.
If I'm wrong, correct me.
adood101 2 years ago
Yeah, Sony pretty much screwed most of Europe with PS2 compatibility only being on the 60gb edition which was only sold for a VERY limited time, plus their pricing.
lmcgregoruk 2 years ago
The 7800 was so far behind the times. It had mostly old tired arcade games. And I don't think anything really showed what the 7800 could really do graphically.
Appule69 2 years ago 3
wow, what a faggot
apriltlady 2 years ago
bet that guy is dead now
ballbreaker1900 2 years ago
wow! lol
Temaxismenos 2 years ago
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Atari 7800...the video game system for gay losers that didn't get Nintendo
gopconservative78 2 years ago
I had a Nintendo first, and as far as "gay losers" that's bullcrap because I was only one of the two.
frigginjoe 2 years ago
man. I have a 7800 but it doesn't work. Please mail your working 7800 to: 7800 for me c/o ....
syrupneko 2 years ago
graphics look at least as good as on the C64
rubber4532 2 years ago
That's it? $20 for the games?
so the Atari 7800 was pretty much
just a poor man's NES.
dentonscheibal3 2 years ago
I guwaa you enjoy paying $40-$60 for today's games.What the hell is wrong with the price of the games you would want them to be cheap right? or do you enjoy paying an arm and a leg for a game?
amari2001 2 years ago
Too cheap and the quality drops like a brick, that's what happened back then. Games got worse and worse, and no one noticed much until ET
LiquidZ2k 2 years ago
your a dumbass im willing to bet you didn't even live back then
32x2z 2 years ago
What's wrong with my statement? Are you saying that cheaply made things are more often better than the more expensive versions? In most cases that is not the case. Not that it really matters, but I was around back then, and the game quality just got worse and worse. Nintendo saved the video game industry back then.
LiquidZ2k 2 years ago
Mate, your video gaming knowledge is good, but wrong time frame? Atari 7800 didn't have ET. This actually came a little after the actual NES.
lPrincelD 2 years ago
i had one with Ms Pac Man, Pole Position 2, Real Sports Baseball and Football, and Donkey Kong Jr
Marceles45 3 years ago 2
The irony of this commercial:
Don Nauert would later show kids tips on how to beat Nintendo games on those "Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes, and Strategies (for Nintendo Compatible games)" series that were sold on video cassette from MPI Home Video.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
I saw this man on the news, he has a unkept beard and is a posted child molester now. I think the news of atari going under caused him to end his life so he wrote his atari title on his grave marker how sad.
imperiallion 3 years ago
impossible mission is right . fuck glitches that prevent you from completeing games
ericaesop 3 years ago 2
Geesh, I remember years ago, me and my friends use to joke around what-if their was a Atari video game master since their was a cartoon on tv about the video game master of Nintendo known as Captain N. Now I see Atari had their own Video game master known as Donn Nauert or aka Captain Atari Nauert. LOL.
CasinoPlayer1 3 years ago
lol
Blackdragon52k 3 years ago
I never had a 7800 Atari tho, I heard it was ten times better than the 2600 but had lame controlers that break too easy. Atleast that's why people told me who own one back in the day. When the Nintendo console came out in 1985 it pretty much blow the Atari of the water. So was Atari the first video game console to have backward Com. since they mention in the commerical it can play 2600 games also.
CasinoPlayer1 3 years ago
Fuck, that guy's never been laid
ioport 3 years ago 5
Well, I've never been laid either. Maybe he and I can "team up"... :rolleyes:
HypnoToad72 3 years ago 2
I think that would be a smoking hot homosexual match up! GO FOR IT!!!
ioport 3 years ago
that guy has no life captain of American video game team i never heard of it
clinch44 3 years ago
7800 was good enough - had a few nice games - popeye and mario were great.
delatroy 3 years ago
What a dork... Also, captain of America videogame team? What the fuck is that?
Those days Nintendo was fighting Sega, so what the fuck tried to do this shitty console in the middle?
chilenoygordo 3 years ago
man the 7800 was such a POS when it came out... my cousin got one for christmas the same year I got an NES, next year he had a Nintendo lol
bphutchins 3 years ago
nintendo made games for Atari?
SHAMSHAM1090 3 years ago 2
Today Atari makes games for Nintendo.
recon500 3 years ago 2
Different Atari though. Infogrames owned now rather than hasbro.
lmcgregoruk 2 years ago
Nintendo were making games before they developed their own console.
THEsquirrel3d 3 years ago
lol gta4 on atari 7800 cause the choice of the experts
torerik1234 3 years ago
that could b weird of GTA4 on the 7800
VirtualSnes007 3 years ago