Other names for "Atari 7800"

[Mister-VCS]

My suggestions:

 

Atari Super 2600

Atari 2600 II

 

others?

[PacManPlus]

Why put the 2600 in the name? Just because it has backward compatibility?

 

It already had a name: "ProSystem".

[BydoEmpire]

The Sprite Blaster

[SoundGammon]

Before the 5200, there was a second 2600 in the works, but the programmers didn't like it!

[ZylonBane]

No, there was not a "second 2600" in the works. You're thinking of the 3200.

[SoundGammon]

Second 2600 = Super-Stella! Based off the original Stella chip, so it would be the second version of the 2600!

[ZylonBane]

Wrong. Englishing does not work that way. Systems like the 2600Jr and 2700 were versions of the 2600, because they played only 2600 games. The 3200 was to be a successor to the 2600.

 

CTIA was based off the original TIA chip, but nobody calls the Atari 400 a "second 2600". That would be so dumb.

[Lynxpro]

There's multiple contenders Atari Consumer Engineering made.

 

Supposedly, Tod Frye made a system using 4 TIA chips that each would draw one quarter of the screen.

 

A few months ago, Jerry Jessop told us at the Davis Atari Party that him and Tod also designed a system - as a competitor to GCC's project which became the 7800 - that used existing off-the-shelf Atari parts such as the TIA and GTIA together. They had all of the chips running at twice their normal stock Mhz speed. It was more powerful than the 7800 and backwards compatible with both the 2600 and the 5200. But Warner stuck with GCC and wouldn't listen to Atari's engineers just as that French manager who headed the 5200 project refused to allow it to be backwards compatible with the 2600 from the start and also who wouldn't listen about the problems with the controllers not self-centering.

Edited November 15, 2015 by Lynxpro

[Jinks]

Prosystem. The choice of the experts.

[nosweargamer]

Hmm, well let's see, they used Lynx, Jaguar and almost Panther.

 

You could go Cougar, Leopard or Cheetah, but I'm going to go with my MOTU background and call it the Atari Battle Cat!

 

(and yes, I know the cat name thing was a Tramiel deal)

[VectorGamer]

POS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just kidding

[+save2600]

I'm good with calling it the The Atari 7800 ProSystem. Or just The 7800. Or ProSystem.

[ave1]

How about Super Claw-Attack Prosystem?

[Zonie]

Why?

[Dauber]

About about the Atari Seven Thousand Eight Hundred?

 

#voice

[Nutsy Doodleheimer]

Well as you guys are debating names for the 7800 I am going to enter for this contest that lets you win a trip to California! I have 36 original 7800 carts so I definetley met the required number of carts. And maybe I'll get this badass Atari T-Shirt and show these Nintendo fanboys what's up. And even get two free games!!

 

[Flojomojo]

It already had a name: "ProSystem".

I always had a good laugh at any game peripheral that put "pro" in the name, as if there were people making money from playing computer games. Were there 1980s forerunners to e-sports?

[Shawn]

Uncle Creepy's Happy Fun Times Thingy™

[BydoEmpire]

The Atari 7800.. no, not the 2600, this is different... and better! No, the 5200 was discontinued. Well, no, the XEGS isn't really... oh, nevermind.

[ZylonBane]

just kidding

 

I'm pretty sure kidding is supposed to be funny.