History of video games/Platforms/Atari 5200

History thumb|Atari 5200 Joystick schematic. Launch thumb|Atari 5200 Logotype. The Atari 5200 was released in the United States of America in the summer of 1982 at a cost of $270.OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=2&c=901 www.old-computers.com 27 October 2020 The console struggled in the market, as regular consumers did not like that the 5200 could not play their old 2600 games they owned.Patterson Patrick Scott Back to the Future: A Look at the History of Backwards Compatibility https://www.scholarlygamers.com/feature/2017/11/01/history-backwards-compatibility/ Scholarly Gamers 11 December 2020 en 1 November 2017 While backwards compatibility as a concept was novel to game systems at the time, a lack of support for old games harmed sales. Complicating matters, poor coordination by Atari lead to 2600 games flooding the market after the Atari 5200 release,Trautman Ted Excavating the Video-Game Industry’s Past https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/excavating-the-video-game-industrys-past 22 December 2020 The New Yorker en-us which probably harmed the success of the system by not only reducing the incentive to upgrade, but also by releasing major games that would be incompatible with the 5200. Legacy Production of the Atari 5200 ceased by May 21st, 1984 as Atari announced the successor system - the Atari 7800.Sanger David E. ATARI VIDEO GAME UNIT INTRODUCED (Published 1984) https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/22/business/atari-video-game-unit-introduced.html The New York Times 2 December 2020 22 May 1984 Over one million Atari 5200 consoles were sold.Atari 5200 SuperSystem (1982 - 1984) https://obsoletemedia.org/atari-5200-supersystem/ Museum of Obsolete Media 28 October 2020 7 March 2014 Technology The Atari 5200 was based on the Atari 400 computerAtari 5200 console - CHM Revolution https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-games/16/185/764 www.computerhistory.org 27 October 2020 and used an 8-bit 6502C CPU clocked at 1.79 megahertz. The Atari 5200 has 16 kilobytes of RAM. The Atari 5200 had 2 kilobytes of storage for its BIOS.History of Consoles: Atari 5200 (1982) Gamester 81 https://gamester81.com/history-of-consoles-atari-5200/ 27 October 2020 By being based off of Atari home computers, game ports from these computers to the 5200 were supposed to be easier. The trade off was a radically different architecture from the prior Atari 2600, potentially resulting in less portability between the two. Notable games Wikipedia has a list of Atari 5200 games. Special Editions A special version of the 5200 was made for use in hotels.ATARI 5200 SUPERSYSTEM FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS https://www.stat.colostate.edu/~zube/FAQs/5200.faq 14 January 2021 Gallery 4 Port Console Controllers Other items Internals References Atari 5200 Atari 5200 2100%__NOTOC__