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Selling the Atari 400/800 Computers Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxN59fuXsg
The Atari 400 Personal Computer was Atari's entry level computer. Designed for younger children with its clean simple design and more importantly its tactile membrane keyboard to prevent damage from food and small objects. Also the keys could not be removed and swallowed by small children.
The Atari 400 during is design conception originally was to have only 4K of memory which is how its number designation was determined: 400 (Also it was nicknamed Candy). When it began to ship it then came with 8K, finally Atari offered it with a base memory of 16K which allowed it to run almost all cartridge and cassette based software.
This was and still is my very first real home computer I had ever gotten in 79 and to this day its still working and I can still play new games on top of many of my old classic games even if I hatted the tactile membrane keyboard 99% of the time I just use my joysticks and paddles to play games on it. It was also the first computer I played online vs with a friend next door with the game on a phone line three years before I get to do that a lot on the c64.
As far as I know there are a 467 total games for both 400/800/XL and XE units for what I found out there was 7 game carts from launch for the 8-bit computer.
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
Basketball
Computer Chess
Star Raiders
Super Breakout
Video Easel
https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....es-Video-Games
The Atari 400 Personal Computer was Atari's entry level computer. Designed for younger children with its clean simple design and more importantly its tactile membrane keyboard to prevent damage from food and small objects. Also the keys could not be removed and swallowed by small children.
The Atari 400 during is design conception originally was to have only 4K of memory which is how its number designation was determined: 400 (Also it was nicknamed Candy). When it began to ship it then came with 8K, finally Atari offered it with a base memory of 16K which allowed it to run almost all cartridge and cassette based software.
This was and still is my very first real home computer I had ever gotten in 79 and to this day its still working and I can still play new games on top of many of my old classic games even if I hatted the tactile membrane keyboard 99% of the time I just use my joysticks and paddles to play games on it. It was also the first computer I played online vs with a friend next door with the game on a phone line three years before I get to do that a lot on the c64.
As far as I know there are a 467 total games for both 400/800/XL and XE units for what I found out there was 7 game carts from launch for the 8-bit computer.
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
Basketball
Computer Chess
Star Raiders
Super Breakout
Video Easel
https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....es-Video-Games
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This one was the first console me and my brother got in '82. Defender, Ms. Pac Man, Frogger(on tape!) and some other game I forget because it had bad controls that we never played. Funny fact was that it was our mother that broke 3 controllers playing Ms. Pac Man, so our dad ended up buying a heavy-duty joystick for us so it would survive. Had that old 400 until the old house was sold in '16 and we garage sale'd it to a collector.
My first computer was an Atari 800. It had many great games, and the ones I remember the most fondly are Star Raiders, Caverns of Mars, Galahad and the Holy Grail, and Eastern Front 1941. There were of course many, many others that were a lot of fun to play.
I am of the opinion that among the personal computers on the the market at the time, the Commodore 64, the Apple ][, the early DOS machines, and the TRS-80 Color Computer that the Atari 8-bit was the best thing on the market for an all around home PC. But the problem was that Atari didn't know how to sell water to a man dying of thirst. I stayed on this platform, eventually upgrading from the 800 to the 130XE, up until the early 90's when I finally took the Windows 3.1 plunge. Still play games on the old 8-bit from time to time however.
I am of the opinion that among the personal computers on the the market at the time, the Commodore 64, the Apple ][, the early DOS machines, and the TRS-80 Color Computer that the Atari 8-bit was the best thing on the market for an all around home PC. But the problem was that Atari didn't know how to sell water to a man dying of thirst. I stayed on this platform, eventually upgrading from the 800 to the 130XE, up until the early 90's when I finally took the Windows 3.1 plunge. Still play games on the old 8-bit from time to time however.
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