The Konix Multisystem was a pretty neat machine for it's time, although the odd design might have limited it to mostly driving games/flight sims. I can't imagine playing a Defender clone with a steering wheel. Although they did make joysticks too (which makes me wonder if they were going to make the Konix joysticks Atari compatible).

According to info from Retro Gamer, Lucasfilm was interested in buying into the Multisystem console, but the company owner wanted to keep it British. It's a shame that it never came out, although I can't see it doing well against Nintendo here in the US. Especially with it's steering wheel design making it seem like it has limited gameplay control. But who knows how things might have gone if LucasArts had bought the design. Imagine higher quality first person flight/driving games like Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus, The Eidolon, and all the Star Wars games they would have put out on the newly christened LucasArts Multisystem. Woo! Brain melt!