History of video games/Platforms/Atari XEGS

History
The Atari XEGS was released in 1987 at a cost of around $199.

At launch the XEGS often sold out, attracting users who were intimidated by the 8-bit computes the XEGS was based on. All 100,000 units manufactured at the time had sold during the US Christmas 1987 season. However Nintendo and Sega were already vastly ahead in the market and were spending millions on marketing, while Atari only spent $300,000 on marketing the XEGS.

Compute
The Atari XEGS is essentially an Atari 65XE computer.

The XEGS uses the 8 bit Atari 6502c CPU, a custom version of the MOS Technology 6502 clocked at 1.79 MHz.

The system has 64 kilobytes of RAM and 16 kilobytes of VRAM.

Notable games
See the List of Atari XEGS games on Wikipedia.