7800 Brotherhood

[Lynxpro]

HELL YES!

We can be like these guys.

 

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02449/thewarriors_2449238e.jpg

 

Ill go to the subway and tag up all the cars.

Everyone will know the 7800ers were there.

 

Look, it's Dexter's dad deep under cover! Can you dig it?

[dashv]

Local shop got a 7800 in last week and I passed on it. Didn't know it took the original 2600 games and controllers. maybe I'll see if they still have it. Then I can be one of the cool kids too!

Edited September 3, 2014 by dashv

[HawkMines]

I'm bringing this back from the dead! The 7800ers will ride again!

 

New Signature:

Member of the Atari 7800 Brotherhood! Want more info? http://atariage.com/forums/topic/226855-7800-brotherhood/

[yy958]

We never die! Count me in boys the 7800ers are on the road

[TrekMD]

Add me to the brotherhood!

[+sramirez2008]

Please add me too.

 

[RetroLucky]

7800 needs more attention for sure, since it'll do the Atari everyone remembers, and more.

[Jinks]

7800 needs more attention for sure, since it'll do the Atari everyone remembers, and more.

Oh so much more!

Cant wait till someone makes a dot matrix printer attachment so I can do my book reports and maybe make a banner for a yard sale!!

WOW!!

[Inky]

Is there like a secret handshake (and not the one from the Atariage magazine), plans for world domination, men wearing fezzes riding around in little cars at the Momence, IL Gladiolus Parade?


I'm in.

[maxdrive]

Since I got mine I truly feel if anyone was looking into Atari the 7800 is the way to go it plays the 2600 games you can use the 2600 controllers but it opens up to other great games the 2600 just does not have. Plus it will open up to the great 7800 home brews.

[RevEng]

I think the 7800 should be the guiding light that informs our worldview.

• This "in-tune" thing that people keep harping on? It's a myth perpetuated by Big Music.
• Preferring a gamepad to a joystick means you have shape-shifting reptilian ancestry. The Europad was a misguided marketing attempt to appease this market.
• The human eye can't resolve more detail than 240p. Any proof to the contrary has been cooked up by the electronics cartel, so they can sell cancer-causing LCD TVs.

Open your eyes, brothers.

[Jinks]

Prosystem is what the pros use.

TIA 2 channel is mind blowing.

Prolines are the most natural real joystick ever invented.

Dont call the 7800 pixels fat. They are the new beautiful.

The life like graphics chip Maria should have never been unlocked. Should have remained one of humankinds greatest secrets.

Edited August 18, 2018 by Jinks

[+sramirez2008]

...Plus it will open up to the great 7800 home brews.

 

[maxdrive]

Even so in hindsight the home brew market shows indefinitely what kind of potential the 7800 could have had in the 80s what kind of power the system truly had imagine in the 80s if the XD version of donkey Kong could have came out. Atari could have been. Hey look who got the best most complete version on donkey kong on their system. I bet that would have really pissed off Nintendo.

[CommodoreDecker]

Count me in as well.

 

I had bought a 7800 used in 1990. Wish I hadn't sold it. Didn't really notice the same 2600 sound chip in use at the time, though in retrospect I should have. Donkey Kong Jr was irritating but I had no other reference points at the time... Asteroids was great, a shame they didn't put out the Deluxe edition instead of just the visual redo (which to this day is simply perfect.)

 

Youtube videos show the NES struggling on various games whereas the 7800 breezes through all 8 zillion sprites (e.g. Summer Games.)  Robotron and Food Fight are go-to games on this platform. Until the arthritis kicks in, so get the kids interested in them too! (Yeah, this aging stuff gets old...)

 

Decades later would I read up on the 7800's history - the lack of POKEY sound alone was a mistake. Delaying until 1986 may have been another mistake. Especially as the 7800's graphics for Ballblazer look a little more polished than on the 800 line.

 

Homebrews for this platform do indeed show what it's got. But it never got a proper chance...

 

An XEGS Brotherhood would be much welcomed as well!  Completely underrated machine, if only for revamped titles (e.g. the best version of Mario Bros) and that angled late-80s style that's quick to grow on ya. But the 7800 was a special best.