Released in 1980 when the Atari 2600 was king, the Intellivision (Intelligent Television) became their first real competitor. It’s specs were heads and tails above the 2600 and with an adapter you were actually able to play your Atari collection... 

The Atari 7800 was released in 1986 just after the Nintendo brought their Famicom system to America. The system was actually more powerful graphically then the NES and Sega Master System but it still utilized the same sound chip that was in the Atari... 

In 1977 Atari released their Atari VCS (2600) and initially had nine games available. Atari sold over thirty million of the consoles, and together with other companies sold hundreds of millions of games. Cartridges for the system were produced across... 

Following the Video Game Crash of 1983 no U.S. company felt there was money to be made in video games anymore. It wasn’t until a Japanese company named Nintendo brought stateside their popular Famicom (FAMily COMputer) re-named the Nintendo Entertainment... 

When the Sega Genesis was released in 1988 is came out towards the end of the NES’ reign. It’s graphics dwarfed that of the NES and the arcade ports were closer in quality then what we were seeing on the NES. They’re slogan at the...