Atari 5200

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An Atari 5200 Home Game Console. It was meant to replace the Atari 2600, but ironically it died off, and the 2600 lived on until the early 1990's. It looked like a ridiculously oversized PlayStation 3. You know those boxes that you screw into your TV to play classic games? Well, it tried to replace that with an automatic switch box, which instead of using forks, plugged into the coaxial, and tried to plug its insanely huge AC adapter into it, but all that made it more confusing. The cartridges and the controllers sucked, too. The cartridges didn't have end labels. Now, about the controllers, they were some of the weirdest controllers you could find. They had keypads, like the ColecoVision, where you had to slide a plastic overlay over the keys. It also had two buttons on either side, which is a bit excessive. And what's the most important aspect of any video game? The graphics? Wrong. Being able to pick it up and play it. Literally, the controllers were so broken, they were unusable. Even the keypads didn't work. But they did have an everlasting legacy. First of all, they were analog, but they were held together with cheap rubber instead of a spring. Secondly, they had a pause feature, which is good. In the long run, though, the 5200 flopped. Yeah, all that trouble for graphics that weren't much of a leap since the 2600. Enjoy the papercraft, though. Have fun building.

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