The 1986 launch is sometimes referred to as a "re-release" or "relaunch" because the Atari 7800 was announced on May 21st, 1984, and was planned to cost consumers $140. In the eyes of Atari management the Atari 7800 would be a return to form after the lackluster performance of the Atari 5200, as the Atari 7800 would address almost all of the shortcomings of the Atari 5200. However due to series of unfortunate events and ill-conceived business decisions the system wouldn’t launch until almost two years after its announcement. By this time Nintendo and Sega were dominating a newly rejuvenated home console market in the United States, but Atari still saw the opportunity to re-introduce the Atari name into American homes. Yet the Atari 7800 would mark a turning point for Atari as a console manufacturer as the console’s struggle to regain public popularity marked the eventual collapse of the Atari brand name and company as a whole.

Fun fact: The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first console from Atari, Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation (GCC).

GCC started out making mod-kits for existing arcade games - for example Super Missile Attack, which was sold as an enhancement board to Atari's Missile Command. At first Atari sued, but ultimately dropped the suit and hired GCC to develop games for Atari (and stop making enhancement boards for Atari's games without permission). They created an enhancement kit for Pac-Man called Crazy Otto which they sold to Midway, who in turn sold it as the sequel Ms. Pac-Man; they also developed Jr. Pac-Man, that game's successor.

Under Atari, Inc., GCC made the original arcade games Food Fight, Quantum, and the unreleased Nightmare; developed the Atari 2600 versions of Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede; produced over half of the Atari 5200 cartridges; and developed the chip design for the Atari 7800, plus the first round of cartridges for that 7800 base unit.

My backstory on it was after the video game crash of 83/84 neither me or my school friends never knew about the Gaming Crash at the time but the only clue we saw was going in to many gaming stores and they were liquidating games and systems wholesales and at first we didn't understand why but we don't care it was like Christmas everyday for us and we where buying games dirt cheap some as low as 4 new box games for a dollar and at once point I found a new box 7800 systems and four games bundle with the unit for $20 and to this day I still have that box unit:)

There was a total of 7 launch games for the 7800 in 86.

Asteroids

Dig Dug

Food Fight

Joust

Ms. Pac-Man

Pole Position II (included with console)

Robotron 2084

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