The Fall of Atari

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Wildcard36qs on 16 March 2015

Interesting read. Is this copy/paste of your essay? If so, what were you graded?

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Nettles on 16 March 2015

They were selling the VCS as late as 1992, by then they had knocked the price down to $50 or something.Has any console ever had a longer lifespan in regular brick & mortar stores?

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Kirin_gaming on 16 March 2015

Good read!

Didn't know about activision's past,I was really surprised by that.

That E.T. game though.

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fory77 on 16 March 2015

Nettles said:
They were selling the VCS as late as 1992, by then they had knocked the price down to $50 or something.Has any console ever had a longer lifespan in regular brick & mortar stores?

WW, no.

I think they are still making Sega Master Systems and Genesiss's'ss' in Brazil.

If you count the Atari Flashback consoles, then the 2600 gets an extra 11 years and ~1M units sold (The Flashback 2 sold ~800k)

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