Atari 5200

The Atari 5200 is a console that was released in 1982 and is the successor to the incredibly popular Atari 2600, but the console was a humongous commercial failure. This console was way bigger then the Atari 2600, the console also had a different controller then the Atari 2600, but the joystick isn’t self centered so the joystick sometimes got stuck. The Atari 5200 was incompatible with alternative adapters, so replacements were hard to find. Atari was also focusing way more on the Atari 2600 then the Atari 5200, making the sales even lower. Critics generally disliked the console because how flawed it is. The console is one of the biggest video game commercial failures of all time, selling one million copies. Atari discontinued it in 1984 and made the Atari 7800, which was a bigger success then the Atari 5200.

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