Lego's recreated the NES and Atari 2600 consoles as official sets, but don't expect to ever see any of these.
Releasing a video game system in the late ‘70s, before systems like the Atari really took off, was a gamble.he Bally Professional Arcade, later renamed the Bally Astrocade, unfortunately rolled a snake eyes. Initially selling in 1977 as a mail order machine for $299 the console was developed by Bally’s videoeventually fared a lot better than the console did.
Although powered by hardware that allowed for impressive graphics capabilities for the time, the system didn’t sell well, and Bally eventually sold off the division responsible for it a few years later. In 1981, the Bally Professional Arcade was rebranded asthe Astrocade in 1982, and included a cartridge that could run the programming language BASIC. The catch? The Astrocade featured just a basic calculator-like keypad, not a full keyboard, which made programming a challenge.
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