Atari 7800 ProSystem - Review & Overview 

It's a little bit more complicated than that, I've talked about it in some other videos. One of the main issues was the profits, Nintendo's offer to Atari would have seen them make pretty much nothing on the hardware and only a very small amount on software they didn't make themselves. They already had the 7800 in the wings that was more powerful and had MUCH more profit potential too.

In the UK that weird family owned an NES! :-P

Honestly, that was a big problem I think. The games people were really intrigued by were coming from Japan... the platformers and whatnot. And here Atari was pumping out better versions of their old games people wanted something new

Yeah so I heard, they announced that the day after I made my video on the 2600+ where I said that was exactly what they should do - spooky!

@@TheLairdsLairalmost like they were listening!

Yep. Donkey Kong looks fantastic but sounds so horrific

No idea, I saw his sister Kate at my own sisters wedding - but that was about 17 years ago now. I remember her saying something about him going up north somewhere and being a DJ but I was quite drunk at the time so my memory of the conversation is pretty vague. I looked for him a few times on Facebook but never found him.

The NES went from not-realistic-gray to very-80s-garish-neon-orange-puke too. :/

You won't regret it!

Just keep in mind a few things, 1. Not all 2600 carts fit all models of 7800, some IMagic for example have a hard time and later Tigervision carts don't fit at all due to how the cartridge slot was designed. Also on some model 7800's have a insanely tight cart slot so even Atari made carts fit very tightly (my first 7800 was one such model) 2. 7800's use a special power adapter. So it's a pain to replace Also some later 7800's were poorly made, my first one had some of the connecting plastic poles inside snap. But my second one seems better made. This isn't a issue unless you have to open it up as eventually the power and pause buttons may need replacement. Also a few 2600 games won't play right due to a lack of a black and white switch. A few games like Secret quest, ghost manor and Starmaster used the switch as a extra button, you can use the pause button but since it's not a switch it may not work right. Also if you don't mind repros, Atari Age has a service where they will create repros of more expensive 7800 games for you. You just submit the ROM and label art and they will make you a copy of the game.

I ended up going with the Seagull78 adapter to use Sega controllers. The Sega controllers work without the adapter but only for 1 button games. For 2 buttons games either need the adapter or the Europad.