UPDATE: Doug Dabney - employee #3 at Atari - has died, his son Scott reports. Dabney's brother Ted co-founded engineering company Syzygy back in in 1972 with Nolan Bushnell, the company that would soon become Atari.
This corrects earlier reports of industry icon Nolan Bushnell announcing the death of long-time business partner Ted Dabney - the man with whom he co-founded Atari.
Atari has revealed classic game patch packs for fans and collectors.
The Atari 7800+ follows on the heels of last year's Atari 2600+.
In essence, its a shell swap of the 2600+ they released previously, since they will both play the same games. I know its a bit of a stretch... but why not make a Jaguar+ that plays the Jag, 7800, 5200 and 2600 games in one? Throw in a Lynx adapter (ala super gameboy) and then you can play the portable games on the big screen too.
In addition to that make the games built in and stuff the cartridge support.
So they can support it like their Ouya... I mean VCS (I have both too ugh.). No thanks. There are very few great Atari games from that era, most of the good Atari games came way later and were arcade based. So rather than get get a compilation of those games (pretty much available on any console), it's better to spend a big chunk on another console so you can stick carts of terrible games that are basically the same game with a couple changes in control direction or a sprite. Hellz nopes. You are better off spending that money on a retro/import console and building a real library, rather than another regurgitation from a company cosplaying as Atari.
GL: "There have been some great handheld consoles over the decades, but along the way came a slew of not-so-great ones; here are seven of the worst."
Wow so sad may he R.I.P :(.
The Atari Lynx was the very first games console I played on. My dad used to let us play it on long car journeys.
RIP
Hold up, it may be a mistake. We'll have to wait before final confirmation...
35mins ago..... not dead.
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My gaming adventure began with Atari.......... R. I. P Doug