There are several reasons that the Atari 7800 was ultimately a failure in the marketplace. And failure is a relative term I guess as Atari was actively releasing games and supporting the 7800 through 1991

That screenshot is the video I was watching with him (my idea), looking at hilarious and atrocious game boxarts...until my friend stopped me after Ninja Golf for Atari 7800's box showed up, and he straight

F-18 Hornet was a combat flight simulator released in 1988 by Absolute Entertainment. It was released for an odd combination of platforms, only being available on the Commodore 64 and Atari 7800. 1988

Alien Brigade is one of the relatively few games released exclusively on the Atari 7800. Alien Brigade was a rail shooter and was somewhat similar to games like Operation Wolf. It could be played either

Touchdown Football was an early football game for the Atari 7800. It's actually a port of an 8-bit computer game of the same name by Electronic Arts. The original computer versions were released in 1984

The hardware of the Atari 7800 was not inferior to the NES, but Atari's decision to first delay its release and then to concentrate on yet another iteration of its various arcade classics instead of

Donkey Kong, released in 1981, was Nintendo's first big arcade success. Over the years it has been converted to a massive number of game systems and computers. The Atari 7800 version was released in 1988,

Crossbow is an arcade game developed by Exidy and released in 1983. In 1987, it was ported to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari XEGS and the Commodore 64. This is probably the first light-gun game that

Galaga was an arcade game released by Midway in 1981 and was the sequel to Galaxian. I always thought it was a little strange that there seemed to be so few home ports of this game. Despite being one of

Mat Mania Challenge is an Atari 7800 game released in 1990. It is based on the Mat Mania and Mania Challenge arcade games. The Atari 7800 port does a fairly good job keeping the graphics and game play

Source: Rampage was initially released as an arcade game in 1986. Shortly thereafter, numerous home ports followed including for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, NES, PC, Amiga, Atari ST, and

Atarian was a very short lived magazine associated with Atari's fan club. Only three issues were published and it's not hard to see why given that 1989 was not exactly at the high point of Atari's fortunes.

Source: Super Skateboardin' was developed by Absolute Entertainment for the Atari 7800 in 1988. It's sort of an odd game in that it really doesn't have much to do with skateboarding. In this game, you

Source: Missing in Action is a rather appropriate name for this game as that is what it was. A rather large number of games that started development on the Atari 7800 went unfinished or were otherwise

Source: Basketbrawl was released in 1990 which was pretty late in the life of the Atari 7800. It was one of the last few games released and support for the 7800 was officially discontinued the following

Source: The Atari 7800 really was one step forward and two steps back for Atari. After the commercial failure of the 5200 (which was in part do to timing and in part due to some bad design decisions),

Source: Midnight Mutants was one of the last games released for the Atari 7800 in 1990. As such, it had pretty low distribution and is pretty rare today. It was also exclusive to that system so you won't

Source: Super Huey is a helicopter combat flight simulator that was originally released on various home computers in 1988 including the Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Amiga, Atari ST and PC (DOS).