[danachow]

> and not when the console was still in production?

The "Atari 8-bit" refers to a line of 6502 based personal computers manufactured from 1979 until 1992! There was a commercially unsuccessful video game console, the 5200, derived from this general architecture - it's wild that for their illustrious place in video game history, Atari was a one hit wonder - they never really succeeded in a console release after the 2600.

Atari also had a line of 68k based 32/16 bit computers that sadly also discontinued in 1992 so that Atari could focus on their pathetic attempts to break back into the console market.

[TedDoesntTalk]

> it's wild that for their illustrious place in video game history, Atari was a one hit wonder

They had many, many popular coin-op machines.

[danachow]

I think from the part of the sentence that you took out it was clear the point was about consoles.

The Atari Pong console was also successful but I tend to not count it as I was only considering programmable consoles.