Atari 7800 engineer reflects on losing the American console market to Nintendo - Gamasutra

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<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNFTr2Sl7fUq7nI53TNlOxGMVV5kkQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=WeEfV7iOA4WB1gb2joWYAg&url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/271351/Atari_7800_engineer_reflects_on_losing_the_America n_console_market_to_Nintendo.php"><img src="//t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFUFhwF0DBUJXTe-N9zDJPjR3OcWGboKrXyJVqqIVkNXLvpuJZ25zu8H0bHTdYr4xD jIFm0UM" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">Gamasutra</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNFTr2Sl7fUq7nI53TNlOxGMVV5kkQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=WeEfV7iOA4WB1gb2joWYAg&url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/271351/Atari_7800_engineer_reflects_on_losing_the_America n_console_market_to_Nintendo.php"><b>Atari 7800 engineer reflects on losing the American console market to <b>Nintendo</b></b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">Gamasutra</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">"In 1986, Atari finally decided what the hell – let&#39;s sell the 7800, and it actually did quite well competing against the <b>Nintendo NES</b> – but it was two years late. It makes me wonder what the industry would have done if the 7800 had come out when it <b>...</b></font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dHJ4e8i7HZO1IxM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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