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[OC] Atari’s Black Beauty (lemmy.autism.place)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by VanHalbgott@lemmy.autism.place to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
 
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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was, but as Atari was known for, was just a fancy new shell on eight year old hardware not too dissimilar to the 2600 or VCS or whatever your region calls it.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

the 800xe was roughly equivalent to a commodore 64.