(maybe) Super small atari

[jeroen]

http://www.backntime.net/

read the prototype section. The one with the built in joystick
It says it has a really small motherboard. This could mean a really small atari. Of course this is merely a prototype. So it is really hard to get.

[daguuy]

it's an emulator

[Turbo Tax 1.0]

i really dont think this is an emu

Atari CX-2000 "VAL" System - The photo on the right shows a brown prototype for the Atari CX-2000 "VAL" System. (A blue prototype also exists.)

This device was designed as a cheaper alternative to the existing 2600 console. It combined a base 2600 unit and the joysticks into a single small unit that could be held on a tabletop, or in your lap. Cartridges were inserted into the back of the system. There were also two joystick ports so you could use standard 2600 joysticks instead of the built-in ones.

I am told that the motherboard for this system is extremely small, and that most of the room inside the case was used for the built-in joysticks. I saw one of the blue prototypes last summer, and the system had a very "cheap" feel to it. I find it a bit hard to believe that consumers would buy this system, which is probably why it was never released.

It is believed that this system was designed in late 1981 or early 1982.

[daguuy]

oh yeah i must have been looking at something else

[Sparkfist]

Not really suprising, after all Atari did make a single chip 2600. I don't know if many of you know of the later Atari Juniors, but rather then have the three standard chips a custom one was made to simplify the design. In any case it seems that it was Atari that was going to pioneer the concept of Direct TeleVision. Real shame they never released it, it would make the construction of a VCSp so much easier... but then Ben never would have created the VCSp then.

[sandman2866]

I got an atari junior you think there worth any money now?

[vb_master]

I got an atari junior you think there worth any money now?

Why don't you look on eBay and find out.