Asteroids has been ported to multiple systems, including many of Atari's systems ( Atari 2600, 7800, Atari Lynx ) and many others.

Category: Atari 7800 games

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a video game console re-released by Atari Corporation in January 1986.

The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc .' s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the video game crash.

They justified this relatively low ranking ( though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600 ) with the summary statement: " Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company's new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a sexier way of playing Atari 2600 titles.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first game system from Atari Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation ( GCC ).

The project was originally called the Atari 3600, though was later renamed the Atari 7800.

In response to the criticisms of the Atari 5200, the Atari 7800 could play almost all Atari 2600 games out of the box, without the need for an adapter.

* Official online version of Asteroids at Atari

At one point following the 5200's release, Atari had planned a smaller, cost-reduced version of the Atari 5200, which would have removed the controller storage bin.

Released on the XE Game System, an Atari 7800 version was started but not completed beyond a simple demo.

The Atari Museum located and posted unreleased box art and notes for a 7800 version of Crystal Castles.

Although it was innovative and unique for its time, gamers found the Atari Lynx to be quite large and bulky, even the 2nd version of the unit.

Craig ported his original Atari implementation to the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and Euphoria was first released ( version 1. 0 ) in July, 1993 under a proprietary licence.

For example, in 1980, a company called " Don't Ask Software ", founded by Randy Simon, created a version called " Abuse " for the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore PCs, which verbally abused the user based on the user's input.

Similarly, the Atari Jaguar version was confiscated following a verdict by the Amtsgericht Berlin Tiergarten on December 7, 1994.

# Atari 2600 PacMan ( hacked version of VLM's Chomp )

During the 1975 Christmas season, Atari released a home version of Pong exclusively through Sears retail stores.

In 1974, Atari engineer Harold Lee proposed a home version of Pong that would connect to a television: Home Pong.

Atari later released a version under its own brand in 1976.

** Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.

However, Shawn abandoned the Atari version as he realized the platform was dying, and reimplemented his work for the Borland C ++ and DJGPP compilers in 1995.

These games, combined with weak high-profile Atari 2600 games, such as the video game version of the hit movie E. T.

In 1982, Atari attempted to take advantage of the craze following the arcade game Pac-Man by releasing a version for the Atari 2600.

Atari responded by releasing the Atari STE in 1989, an " enhanced " version of the ST to match the specification of the Amiga 500 by adding a blitter, more colors and DMA driven digital audio.

The 1980 Atari 2600 version quadrupled the system's sales and became the first " killer app " for video game consoles.

Development of the production 68000 version of GEM began in September 1984, when Atari sent a team called " The Monterey Group " to Digital Research to begin work on porting GEM.

As Atari had provided most of the development of the 68k version, they were given full rights to continued developments without needing to reverse-license it back to DRI, who had apparently lost interest in the 68000 platform.

Atari had been in the process of manufacturing another vector game, Lunar Lander, but demand for Asteroids was so high " that several hundred Asteroids games were shipped in Lunar Lander cabinets.

( This package was released for the PC a year earlier under the title Atari: 80 Classic Games in One.

The Atari ST was part of the 16 / 32 bit generation of home computers, based on the Motorola 68000 CPU noted for 128 kB of RAM or more, a graphical user interface, and 3½ " microfloppy disks as storage.

His replacement was Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell.

The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a higher end complementary console for the popular Atari 2600.

The 5200 was based on Atari Inc .' s existing 400 / 800 computers and the internal hardware was almost identical, although software was not directly compatible between the two systems.

The 360-degree non-centering joystick was touted as offering more control than the eight-way joystick controller offered with the Atari 2600.

Atari's management decided to enter this market, and the new technology was repackaged into the Atari 400 and 800, hitting the market in 1979.

In its prototype stage, the Atari 5200 was originally called the " Atari Video System X-Advanced Video Computer System ", and was codenamed " Pam " after a female employee at Atari Inc.

Atari Inc. released the Pro-Line Trak-Ball controller for the system, which was used primarily for gaming titles such as Centipede or Missile Command.

Although the Atari 5200's internal design was extensively based on that of the 400 / 800 home computers, the differences were sufficient that games designed for one would not run directly on the other.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

He would use his love for games and theme parks to help launch both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters.

On March 24, 2010, the Atari 2600 port of Millipede was one of the launch titles for the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows LIVE service, Game Room.

The visit was to conclude an association to launch the GP32 in North America under the Atari name.

A 3D sequel was planned as a launch title for Epyx's " Handy " system which eventually became the Atari Lynx.

Soon after its Atari 2600 launch, Activision ported H. E. R. O.

Maynard left the board in 1987 and Still went on to manage the launch of the Atari ST, Lynx handheld and Jaguar consoles in Europe, before stints with Electronic Arts and Nvidia.