As you may have already deduced, The Atari 7800+ that concerns us today is nothing more than a direct allusion to the Atari 7800one of the classics of the legendary company that played such a decisive role in the video game console market in the seventies and eighties. Evidently not as well remembered as the Atari 2600, which already saw a long-awaited re-release last fall, or with projects like the still-remembered Atari VCSA, which, after waiting quite a long time for a supposed launch, finally ended up debuting in the middle of the year 2021.

For those who don’t remember, the console that is now reincarnated in this Atari 7800+, on the market in 1984a difficult time for any device of this type, as the great crisis experienced by the whole sector in 1983 was still very clearly felt in the market. And that, when added to the fact that the competition was getting bigger and bigger, meant that a console that had promise never lived up to the expectations that Atari had put into it.

So, although it didn’t stand out at the time, and although it doesn’t commonly appear in lists of the most memorable consoles of the 1970s and 1980s, Those who played it generally have quite positive memories of it.and if we add to that the effectiveness of nostalgia as a selling point, we don’t have to ask much more to understand this movement, which is of course also related to the successful launch of the 2600+ last year.

Atari and Plaion, who have already collaborated on the successful 2600+ project, have joined forces again and, as we read in The Verge, announced the next launch of the Atari 7800+, which will take place on November 29, 2024, and will be priced at 119.99 euros. The console will come with a CX 78+ controller, a replica of the one that accompanied the 7800, but with the very important difference that in this case it is wireless, something almost unthinkable when the original model was launched. market.

Obviously, along with the marketing of the Atari 7800+, several games for it will also be released, the good news is that the console It will be fully compatible, via emulation, with both the original 7800 and 2600 cartridges (Remember that the original 7800 also offered compatibility with 2600 games). Of course, there is one more important difference between the 7800 and 7800+, and that is that it has of course also been updated in terms of connectivity, as it integrates a USB power port and HDMI for video output.