Atari’s follow up to its 2600+ retro console is the Atari 7800+. Just like the console from 1986, it’s backwards compatible with the 2600.
can play your attic’s worth of dusty cartridges for the near-30-year-old console, but it has the added benefit of wireless controllers and extra-backward compatibility with 2600 games.Atari and My Arcade pushed at the beginning of 2023. The $130 7800+ looks exactly like the 38-year-old console and plays the actual cartridges. You might struggle to find many games from yesteryear compatible with the 7800. The console saw a bare 59 official games on the platform.
The new console works with modern TVs with support for widescreen or 4:3 aspect ratios if you want to have that original feel to your games. There are still two ports for controllers, but now it comes with a single CX78+ gamepad with wireless connectivity. If you were hoping for two players, you’d need to pay an extra $35 for a wireless gamepad or the new CX40+ wireless joystick. It includes a USB-C charging cable, though you’ll need to find your power brick to give it juice.
Sure, the 7800 doesn’t have nearly as much pedigree as the Atari 2600, though it was a very interesting product of its time. The console arrived three years after the fabled games crash of 1983. To avoid the flood of poor-quality titles that led to the original crash, Atari required developers to send them the game in advance so they could sign them digitally.
The 7800 infamously debuted the same year as the Nintendo Entertainment System, so the Japanese game giant quickly overshadowed it. It also lacked many platformers to compete withSince Apple offered tacit approval for new emulators on the App Store, iPhone users should now have access to old-school Nintendo consoles, with more to come.While you should definitely consider game-specific services like Xbox Game Pass and GeForce Now, you should also consider a full-on cloud gaming PC.
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