Atari 7800

[Shrapnoid]

Anyone else collect games for this system? If so, how many do you have and how many more do you need?

[Tatsujin]

1. no
2. zero
3. zero

[DragonmasterDan]

I have around 50 games for it, I'm not going for a set or anything. I simply pick up ones I don't have as I come across them in the wild.

[futureman2000]

I have about 11 games or so, but I'm not really seeking any more. They're pretty hard to find, and I don't really enjoy most of the games anyway- although Food Fight is pretty good.

[Shrapnoid]

I have around 50 games for it, I'm not going for a set or anything. I simply pick up ones I don't have as I come across them in the wild.

Wow! If I remember right there were supposed to be like 54 or so total ever released.

Yeah, Futureman. They are getting hard to find. I think I have a little over 20 or so myself.
Last one I got was Donkey Kong, through ebay. It was sealed and didn't cost much at all.

[ParanoiaDragon]

I have 2 or 3 games.  Mainly have it for the 2600 stuff.  Like so many things, it'd be awesome to collect 7800 stuff, but just don't have the money, time, or room.

[DragonmasterDan]

I have around 50 games for it, I'm not going for a set or anything. I simply pick up ones I don't have as I come across them in the wild.

Wow! If I remember right there were supposed to be like 54 or so total ever released.

Yeah, Futureman. They are getting hard to find. I think I have a little over 20 or so myself.
Last one I got was Donkey Kong, through ebay. It was sealed and didn't cost much at all.

I think there's between 70 and 80.

[Arkhan]

I only buy games for systems that don't suck.

I bought someone ninja golf for the thing, but that games overrated and stupid.

[futureman2000]

I was looking into getting Ninja Golf, but I got over it for the reasons stated above.

[guyjin]

I have one, and about a dozen games for it. It was a system with a lot of potential that was never taken advantage of, because Jack Tramiel is a cheap ass idiot. Most of the games I have are pretty good.

[RegalSin]

They could have just packaged adapters with newer releases, or even offer adapters with new games. Like make an 2600 game with a 5200 game inside, and when the game was played on a 2600 you could also play that game. Or even hold down a button.

[HercTNT]

Regal, i'm not sure what you mean. Almost all 2600 games were playable on a 7800. 5200 games are another story as they were a different animal all together. If you mean to adapt 7800 games to a 2600, i'm not sure why you would.  The cost of said adapter, if possible, would not be a simple pack in with games you buy. 

[RegalSin]

They took the 5200 and turned into a 7800. Instead they should have sold 2600 adapters with the 5200, and various games. Like how the N64 expansion pack was sold with some games.

[VenomMacbeth]

They took the 5200 and turned into a 7800. Instead they should have sold 2600 adapters with the 5200, and various games. Like how the N64 expansion pack was sold with some games.

No, the 7800 was made because the 5200 was just a crap console.  Plus, although I absolutely love the Atari 2600, about 80% of the games for it are pretty bad, so if they'd made it so the 5200 played 2600 games, it would have pretty much killed Atari right then and there.  Unless, of course, you're talking about making it so the 2600 played 5200 games...which also makes no sense.  That's like...backwards backwards compatibility. :/ lol

[SignOfZeta]

In all seriousness, everything that says "Atari" on it that isn't an arcade machine or the Lynx is f*cking garbage. No joke. %90 of all games for their systems range from borderline unplayable to totally unplayable. That company has the worst track record ever, basically f*cking up everything they touched, squandering away billions of dollars and dozens of lost opportunities. By the 90s they were suing Sega for bullshit patents like "putting a image on a TV" and telling us to buy a Jag because it was made in America.

God Atari sucked.

However....Warlords and Combat. Those two are amazing!