1987 TV Commercial Comparing the Atari XE System to the NES
Channel: The Dot Eaters
Date: 2021-01-26

1987 TV commercial for Atari XE video game system vs. NES. You can read, watch, listen and even play the history of the Atari XE and the big video game crash of 1983 at my video game history website the Dot Eaters: https://thedoteaters.com/?bitstory=console/the-great-video-game-crash

In this TV commercial comparing the Atari XE System to the NES, we get a look at Atari's attempt to follow in the footsteps of Nintendo's console with a "new" system. Similar to the earlier 5200 simply being an Atari 8-bit computer in a console case, so the XE was a repurposed 65XE computer. Having learned no lessons about trying to foist jacked-up computer conversions onto video gamers, Atari also promised a keyboard attachment for the XE. Those that forget history, and all that.

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