How Good Was The Atari 7800?

[FurinkanianFrood]

The advantages of the NES over the 7800 were:

1. Sound
2. All the great tricks used to squeeze every last bit of capability out of the NES (special mappers and such).

If the 7800 had gotten some love from developers it would have been quite nice graphically.

As far as 1 button games there is no controller issue, and for the others, like the guy above said, ya just gotta find the joypads.

I do use it largely as a 2600. My VCS bit the dust almost 20 years ago, and I was too young to try to fix what was probably something extremely minor.

Do you prefer the 7800 ports to the emulated versions available on the PS1 and later systems?

It depends. I don't like playing the games on most modern controllers, especially the painful PS controllers (not that the 7800 controllers don't give me cramps also......)

I really don't play anything on PS1 though, buyt that's neither here nor there in this discussiuon.

As far as Robotron goes I would just as soon play that on the Midway collection on GC.

Centipede I play on 7800 though, along with some of the exclusives.

It depends on whether one actually wants an extra VCS and how much you care about some of the ports/exclusives.

I could have been a truly great system if it had gotten decvent support.

As it is it's far from a waste though.

Ms Pacman. I own a lot of versions of Ms Pacman, and the 7800 version is one of the good ones (along with a gerbillion others).

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[Rogmeister]

I really liked the arcade ports it had...I don't know if I played enough of the original games for it but I wasn't that crazy about the ones I did get. It's one of the few systems I've owned...that I don't anymore. I don't really miss it since the arcade games (which is the reason I liked it) are all available on systems I do still own.

[VG_Maniac]

The good arcade ports were the only reason I bought the 7800....even though there are better versions of those games out there.

[7th lutz]

The 7800 was 2nd game system over. It is great for 2600 games and has some good 7800 games. I do feel the nes and the sms are better then the 7800 in varity of games.

The 7800 does has have hacks of games, homebrew games being worked on and has Curtle Cart 2. Curtle Cart 2 is is something that you can save roms of 2600 and 7800 games. Those roms can be hacks or homebrew games like Frogger.

The 7800 had the problem of being under Jack Tramiel. He spent more money on advertising for the 2600 then the 7800. I never saw an ad on tv for the 7800 but I did for the 2600. He made a major screw up by releasing the atari xegs. Jack thought the xegs was better then the nes and was released a year after the 7800 was. He also didn't spend money on making cartridges bigger. There was not a 128k game until 1988. By then the nes and the sms were into 256k games.