Atari 7800 Commercial - The Choice of the Experts

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Uploaded by on Jun 22, 2006

With Don Nauert, Captain of the U.S. Video Game Team

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  • Most games were under $20,,, only if it was like that now.

  • @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.

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  • @jcrowley1985 check the medal  count. try again.

  • That's why I chose the Atari 7800 prosystem over the NES because. "It's the choice of the experts!" And the system made you a video game pro. (sarcasm)

  • Yea..... I'm calling bullshit on the fact that there is really is a "US video game team". Has America really gotten so fat an lazy that he have to resort to video games to compete in the olympics?

  • 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

  • the game "Impossible Mission" was Impossible to beat due to a glitch in the game.....talk about screwing that up!

  • That guy is probably an old geezer now!

  • @SpreadingTruths What you said is correct since both those were also out in 1987.

  • The announcer pronounced the word "Karateka" correctly. I am stunned.

  • Love the 7800. Not as popular as the Sega Master System or Nintendo but still a fun console

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