The Atari Lynx is a fourth-generation handheld game console that Atari Corporation released in September 1989 in North America and in 1990 in Europe and Japan. It was the first handheld console with a color liquid-crystal display. The Lynx used a 4 MHz 65C02 8-bit CPU and a special 16-bit blitter, making it more advanced than Nintendo’s monochrome Game Boy, which came out five months earlier.
The Atari Jaguar is a home video game console created by Atari Corporation and released in North America in November 1993. It uses a Motorola 68000 central processing unit (CPU) and two special 32-bit chips called Tom and Jerry. Atari claimed it was the first 64-bit game system, but some people disagreed, saying it did not meet the standards for a 64-bit system.
The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console released by Atari Corporation in May 1986 as the replacement for the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. It can play most games made for the Atari 2600, which made it the first console with backward compatibility. It came with a two-button controller instead of the Atari CX40 joystick used with the 2600, and included the game Pole Position II as a free gift with purchase.
The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, also called the Atari 5200, is a home video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari, Inc. It was created as a better version of the popular Atari Video Computer System (VCS), which was later renamed the Atari 2600 when the 5200 was launched. The 5200 was made to compete with Mattel’s Intellivision.
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console created by Atari, Inc. It was first released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS). This console helped introduce computer chips and games stored on removable cartridges, a format first used by the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console. The hardware was created by a small team led by Ralph H. Baer at Sanders Associates, while Magnavox finished development and released it in the United States in September 1972 and in other countries the next year.