The Story of: 5 Rare & Unusual Prototype Atari Consoles

[@baroncalamityplus]

The XEGS made more sense than the 5200 JR anyways.

[@Sinn0100]

Wait...the Atari XEGS actually released in the US. I have actually seen one in the wild, in box. My goto retro shop is selling it and they have quite a few games for sale as well.

[@TheLairdsLair]

Yes, it was primarily designed for the U.S. market. I go into detail on this bit in the two XEGS videos that I've made.

[@cessnaace]

From what I've read in the AtariAge forums multiple Jaguar 2 prototypes still exist. Some are just an empty case, while others have everything on the boards save for the Puck chip. Tom's replacement, Oberon, is in place, but Jerry's replacement, Puck, is missing. Even the additional RAM and the Motorola 68EC020 (replacement for the original Jag's Motorola 68000) are still in place. The 68EC020 is a 32 bit variant of the 16-bit 68000 that is fully backwards compatible with it. Perhaps the Puck chip was never manufactured. At any rate Jerry was put in its place and the system worked perfectly with all existing Jaguar 1 games. Perhaps someone will one day produce the Jaguar 2. Hasbro briefly owned Atari in 1999 and freed up the copyrights on the Atari hardware.

[@TheLairdsLair]

I have done a whole video on the Jaguar 2 (linked below for you) and yes, there are no Puck chips, but the design for the chip was finished. So quite a few years back a group of people were going to recreate it using FPGA, but sadly that never came to anything. Shame as it would be great to see what Jaguar 2 was capable of. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKvSmaatj5mhpsU

[@flo_raf]

Thanks for this.

[@Tolbat]

Hasbro freed up everything they owned Jaguar related and released it to the public.

[@MarkRyanSchulz]

The Atari Video System X looks like it has even more B&O design elements on it than the final version does. The Ataris look like Beomaster receivers from the late 1970s.

[@dragokills6990]

The Jag Duo is where it's at, would have loved one of those, insta purchase BITD.

[@shawn6306]

I actually have the new atari vcs i love it so much it's my favorite unpopular underrated hardware pc/console hybird i think it's amazing best ever to me it's a 10 out of 10 for me it made me a new atari fan and i always want it atari to make a comeback with new hardware i know this is not the same oringial atari since they been bought out i'm ok with that i know alot of people don't care about and don't like the new atari vcs 800 think it's bad only little bit of us love it that think it's good it doesn't matter to me if video game hardware does well popular or not do well unpopular or if it has alot of games or don't have alot of game by only having little bit of games and or has no more games i will always love and support my favorite company atari no matter what happens that's how much i love atari and it's atari 7800, jaugar and atari vcs 800 is not a failure to me in my difference point of view take

[@dreamcaster4754]

Very cool video, what were they thinking with that janky tablet thing?

[@jdraven0890]

I bought several 7800 games from O'Sheas, I'd completely forgotten about that.

[@nickwerner7983]

Nothing beats the OG 2600.

[@johneygd]

I want that atari 5200 jr sooo much,if jack tremiel was straight responsible for not releasing it,screw him,IF that’s the case,because i only tout that he was responsible to supposedly never release the atari 7800 but eventually delayed it instead, Also that atari jag duo looks freaking damn cool,because to be all hornest with you i find the atari jaguar and atari jag CD look UGLY and lazy and once mashed up together they will look together more like a toilet rather then a game’s console.

[@stefanweilhartner4415]

for me, the retro gaming scene ends when the chips are too hard to solder and when you don't get documentation anymore without an NDA where you have to sell your soul to the devil. chips need to be documented in detail with good application notes and examples. this way you own the hardware that you bought. this is not the case anymore and i really hate that.

[@retropalooza]

104 pins they gotta be joking

[@mgabrysSF]

after the 'Woz' editions of the Apple IIGS - 'why not ' although I'm not sure GCE knew anything about it.'*(typed from a 2020 VCS - a great training platform for the Steam Deck)

[@Mr.1.i]

If its bigger than an xbox well it is absolutely massive

[@KehHs-l8b]

Black units got the screen glare....true sign of a photoshop

[@IntoTheVerticalBlank]

5100! Great job as always, K!

[@joejacobsonwales]

I have NEVER seen or heard of those tablets before! Entering a highly competitive market like that was commercial suicide IMO.

[@paulie-g]

Meh. They were all rebadges of existing low-cost tablets I reckon, so a low cost up front. Chinese OEMs for these will do a branded version for free with a 1-10k order, easily. And the low costers seem to do well enough to continue making new ones. I just don't think the sets of people who like Atari, people who are prepared to play their games in emulation, people who are prepared to pay for that emulation given excellent free and open alternatives, and people who are prepared to pay a non-negligible premium over a low-end tablet to do all that overlap much, if at all. It doesn't make sense to have a tablet just for Atari emulation alongside your main tablet, and people with disposable income would rather own a nice tablet and use it instead.

[@retropalooza]

Has anyone by chance come across that new book by the lairds lair in audio only format? Seriously, looking to see if there's an audio version for a fan with vision probs....I don't know if computers just read them now instantly or they gotta be made by the author

[@TheLairdsLair]

I was going to do audio books a while back, but it's an awful lot of work as you have to voice them all yourself.

[@retropalooza]

@@TheLairdsLair it's no problem, we are deep into the Gameboy right now page 302 but I think u may have missed amazing tater

[@TheLairdsLair]

I'll probably do an extended print version in the future, so that might make it in next time. Hope you're enjoying it!

[@retropalooza]

@@TheLairdsLair you've done enough, sit back and Enjoy a job well done

[@boonboy8333]

The Japanese assisted atari to do some serious introspection 😄 after showing them what real video games are.