Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: “As our look through the What If Machine reaches the third console generation, we come to Atari’s little known and often forgotten follow-up to the disastrous 5200 system and one of the Nintendo Entertainment System’s chief rivals – the Atari 7800. The system was meant to serve as a new beginning for Atari, now under new ownership and with a renewed focus on gaming withing an industry that had seemingly gotten its second wind thanks to Nintendo and the NES following the Video Game Crash of ’83. There was a lot of promise behind this system, which offered some pretty notable improvements and features over its predecessor but in the end could not stop the Japanese juggernaut that was Nintendo. But what if it had, what if the 7800 became the king 8-bit gaming instead of the NES?”
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