Game Brain (C-700)
The Atari Game Brain (model number: C-700) is an unreleased home video game console that was developed and planned for release by Atari, Inc. In June 1978. It plays 10 particular games, converted from all of Atari's previously released dedicated consoles, such as Pong, Stunt Cycle, and Video Pinball.
Also recorded as C-700 · Atari C-700 · Atari Game Brain
Game Brain (C-700)
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Its controllers are on the console face, with 4 directional buttons, a paddle, and a fire button. Games are inserted in the top of the system by opening a door that also bears a small instruction booklet. The system was not intended as a big seller for Atari but rather as a clearance of CPUs from unsold dedicated consoles. Atari canceled the Game Brain around 1978. Three Atari Game Brain consoles and five prototype cartridges are known to exist.
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Key facts
• Name — Atari Game Brain • Aka — C-700 • Developer — Atari, Inc. • Type — home video game console • Generation — First generation • Release Date — Unreleased (1978) • Storage — ROM cartridge • Controllers — Built in
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Games
• Pong • Stunt Cycle • Super Pong • Super Pong ProAm • Super Pong ProAm 10 • Super Pong 10 • Ultra Pong • Ultra Pong Doubles • Video Music • Video Pinball
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- 1.Music Backdrop For Vegas CES, By Stephen Traiman, Page 81, 14 Jan 1978, Billboard, "Listings from $19.95 to $59.95, additional carts were shown by...Atari(Warner Communications) for its new Game Brain,.."
- 2.Intermission: Innovative Oddities, Page 497, By Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel, Atari Inc: Business is Fun, "Another interesting console blip that appears on the radar briefly appeared at the 1978 Summer CES. Called the 'Game Brain' Model C-700, it's a cartridge based console system, but it's not microprocessor based like the VCS."
- 3.Page xiii, Weekly Television Digest with Consumer Electronics, Volume 18, Part 1, Editorial & Business Headquarters, 1978, "NEW ATARI MPU GAME:Atari is moving into lower end of programmable market with new "moderately prices" Game Brain scheduled for introduction at CES this week. At same time Atari ...will be..., delivered in June along with Game Brain."
- 4.A History of WCI Games / Atari / Atari Games / Atari Holdings, "1978 June 11-14: At the Summer CES in Chicago Atari introduced the Game Brain (C-700; $115; never shipped), along with four new VCS titles: Basketball (previously announced in April), Capture the Flag (would ship as Flag Capture), The Maze (would eventually ship as Maze Craze), Wizard (never shipped)"
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