Atari 7800
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Sep 21, 2026
Justin BakerHOST
Yeah.
Justin BakerHOST
I'd never have played an Atari 7800 game.
Justin BakerHOST
Yeah.
Chris SaturnHOST
I had only played them via emulators until I got mine.
Justin BakerHOST
I just love it.
Justin BakerHOST
but i don't i don't have any nostalgia for this and um but then i bought it but then you bought it because you do you have a little bit of nostalgia for
Chris SaturnHOST
it nostalgia for that era i still have my atari 2600 and i have a a giant pile of games um so yeah i got the uh the atari 7800 plus and a handful of new games for it which is so weird getting new atari games in 2026
Justin BakerHOST
And it's really cool if you like those games.
Joe JohnstonHOST
... ever since I've had consoles, I've had PlayStation consoles because, you know, I had a PS2.
Joe JohnstonHOST
The only console I had before a PS2 was an Atari 7800.
Joe JohnstonHOST
[laughs] Um-
Psy WhiteHOST
Wow.
Chris RandazzoHOST
So many textures.
Chris RandazzoHOST
The Atari 7800 is getting the boot again because Nintendo decided to drop two direct presentations on us this week.
Chris RandazzoHOST
What sort of wackiness did they get up to? Beware of waggling root tongues because the Stone Age Gamer podcast starts now.
Dan RyanHOST
Hi, everybody.
TravisHOST
The 7800 one is interesting because...
TravisHOST
I don't know if you've ever held... an Atari 7800 controller.
TravisHOST
I don't think so.
TravisHOST
But it's kind of like holding a sex toy upside down.
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SteveHOST
You know, a little ominous.
SteveHOST
That is true, man.
SteveHOST
You know what? What might literally be the exact opposite game of Atari 7800's one-on-one basketball featuring Dr.
SteveHOST
Jay and Larry Bird is, in fact, Rhyme Rider Karo Rikken on the Wonder Swan.
Alex SmithHOST
We'll do an episode on them someday, but we haven't yet.
Alex SmithHOST
Creators of Ms. Pac-Man in the arcade, designers of the Atari 7800 system, and programmers on many of the later VCS games, as well as many 5200 games.
Alex SmithHOST
Centipede is one of those games that shows that if the market hadn't fallen apart because of all of the overstuffing, the industry would've probably been okay because people truly were still interested in video games.
Alex SmithHOST
It came out in March 1983, so it was their big kind of tentpole release.
Chris SaturnHOST
So when they released the 2600 Plus, they made it forwards compatible with the 7800 games.
Chris SaturnHOST
And then when they released the Atari 7800 Plus, it's basically just the same firmware, but in a 7800 shell.
Chris SaturnHOST
So I can still
Justin BakerHOST
get the ugly wood grain 2600 and then still play with 70.
Chris RandazzoHOST
for SAG standouts.
Chris RandazzoHOST
We're going to finally cover Atari 7800.
Chris RandazzoHOST
We've been threatening to do it for a while now.
Chris RandazzoHOST
We're going to bring you the SAG standouts for Atari 7800.
Chris RandazzoHOST
Should be interesting as neither Dan nor I are extraordinarily overly familiar with the Atari 7800.
Chris RandazzoHOST
So let's see if we can make that work.
Chris RandazzoHOST
And with that, we're on most social media accounts.
Justin BakerHOST
They're still around.
Chris SaturnHOST
I do appreciate that Atari and Tatsujin made brand new conversions of Tiger Heli and Sky Shark for Atari 7800 last year.
Justin BakerHOST
They're doing weird stuff.
Justin BakerHOST
And I think that's why this is one of those episodes that doesn't have to end sad.
Steve FultonHOST
But from what I know about the hardware, with its hardware scrolling and eight sprites per line, etc.
Steve FultonHOST
I mean, you know how the Atari 7800 was designed to play Robotron? Yes.
Steve FultonHOST
I believe the NES was designed to play 1941 or 1942.
Steve FultonHOST
Not exactly, but kind of like with the scrolling background, the way the sprites work.
John CumminsHOST
Uh, it even got a Famicom Disk System port, uh, pretty late in 1988.
John CumminsHOST
Uh, and then also Atari 7800, the Atari 8-bit, and then the e-Reader.
John CumminsHOST
Uh, this also got a e-Reader version on November 11th, 2002.
John CumminsHOST
And then last but not least, this was one of the...
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