Should've posted about this piece on the second generation of video game consoles by @siliconundergro before the one on the third generation I linked the other day. This one's super cool too. Colecovision, Intellivision, Vectrex, Atari consoles, etc https://dfarq.homeip.net/second-generation-video-game-consoles
🕹️📺 The Atari 5200 is a console from 1982, designed to be a more powerful sibling to the successful Atari 2600 but with hardware similar to that of Atari's home computers.
Visited the Museum of Technology at Middle Georgia State University today with my son. Parts were unavailable to the public due to construction but we did get to play around with some classics. https://www.mga.edu/computing/technology-museum/index.php
My all-time favorite game is the original arcade version of Centipede. This 1982 commercial is for the Atari 5200 version, but it's epic and really nails the weird, frantic feel of the game.
A5200DS Release Version 3.6 (github.com)
a5200ds is an Atari 5200 emulator for the Nintendo DS/DSi/XL/LL...