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Amiga CD32
“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
“A computer in console clothes, it never quite decided what to be and we loved it anyway.”
The Atari XEGS arrived in 1987 as an industrial redesign of the Atari 65XE, and the final model in the Atari 8-bit computer series. Atari marketed it as a home video game console going up against the Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega's Master System, and Atari's own 7800. It was a shape-shifter: without the keyboard it ran as a stand-alone game console, but with the keyboard attached it booted identically to an Ata
Atari sold it as a basic set with console and joystick, or a deluxe set adding a keyboard, CX40 joystick, and XG-1 light gun, backed by new games like Barnyard Blaster and Bug Hunt plus cartridge ports of older favorites such as Lode Runner, Necromancer, and Ballblazer. In 1992, Atari dropped support for the XEGS along with the entire 8-bit computer line, the Atari 2600, and the Atari 7800. The last of the 8-bits wen
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“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
“Fifteen years, one joystick, and a cartridge slot that never said die.”
“A CD player that dreamed of being a computer, a decade too polite to say so.”