This page is graphics intensive. It may take a few moments to load. You know, I have never figured out why Atari had so many unreleased products. It boggles the mind to think about all of the great ideas that never made it out the door. Some say that Atari was ahead of it's time with some of these devices.
Many people feel that management was incompetent.
Whatever the reason, many products never made it off the drawing board. In the early 1980's, Atari felt that they were losing money to the handheld and tabletop gaming market. Mattel had a complete stranglehold on the handheld market with games like Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer. Coleco had just stared making tabletop versions of Donkey Kong, Frogger, and others. The Cosmos was Atari's attempt to grab a piece of that market.