NES Works Gaiden #12: Atari 7800 Pt. 1 (Pole Position II / Dig Dug / Ms. Pac-Man / Joust) (Patreon)
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Let's do this, folks. I promise it won't take long.
NES Works is currently at January 1988, and this episode hits rewind to take us back about a year and a half to May 1986—right before the NES completed its slow nationwide rollout—and the launch of Atari 7800. By the time the NES reached 1988 and its 70-somethingth game, the 7800 would have a grand library of 12 games. So for the next few weeks, we're taking a sidebar to explore those 12 games and get a sense of what Atari had up its sleeves against Nintendo's explosively popular console.
These games may seem a bit, um, familiar. Especially since one of them showed up last week on Lynx...