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All Atari Consoles and Computers

You can never get enough information and pictures of Atari computers right, am I right guys! Well here we have Imgur user zadoc with a information and images on all the Atari console and computer systems. It’s like porn for classic computer geeks like me!

Here is a sample.

1975 – Home Pong

Pong has a long history going back before the 1972 release of the arcade version which popularized video games. “Home Pong” is a game changer in the home console market, previously occupied by only the Magnavox Odyssey. Unlike Odyssey, this game has a microchip; it’s a computer and can keep score. Pong was ready to go in 1974, actually, but Atari could not find anyone to sell it. People thought it was too expensive and no one would want to play it.

After a year Atari agreed to let Sears sell it through their sporting goods catalog. That’s why the first version of Home Pong carries the Sears Tele-Games brand. In 1976 Atari was able to release it under their own brand, and that’s the version pictured here. Between 1976 and 1977 several variations of Pong consoles would be released by Atari.

Pong Doubles, Super Pong, Super Pong Pro-Am, Super Pong Pro-Am Ten, Ultra Pong, and Ultra Pong Doubles. All are variants on Pong, some are up to four players. It would not only be Atari to release a slew of Pong consoles.

Aside from 1972’s Magnavox Odyssey, the entire first generation of video game consoles would be almost nothing but dedicated consoles. Magnavox made a slew of Odyssey models, Coleco made numerous models, as did APF, and dozens of companies you’ve never eve heard of. The craze ended in the first video game crash, as everyone got sick of these things and it became apparent that “programmable” consoles were the future. We’ll look at non-pong dedicated consoles that Atari released, but not every single Pong variant.

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