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	Atari Cosmos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Atari Cosmos was a failed attempt by Atari to release a tabletop video game system that would utilize holography and LEDs to create a unique gaming experience.
		The Cosmos was to have 9 released games, but all of the actual games were in the Cosmos itself (the cartridges only contained the holographic images and a notch to identify what game it was).
		It was speculated that Atari felt the Cosmos was too much of a risk in the face of the criticism it had received.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atari_Cosmos (380 words)

	ATARI Cosmos
		Atari's only entry in to the tabletop market, this was also Atari's only foray in to holography.
		Atari proceeded to advertise and promote the unit before it's release, and even demonstrated it at the New York Toy Fair in 1981.
		Atari still did use it's holographic materials stock though - they were recycled to be used as hologram stickers when Atari went to the newer silver color coded boxes for it's cartridges for the 2600 and 5200 systems.
	www.classicgaming.com /gamingmuseum/cosmos.html (328 words)

	Atari Cosmos: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In ads made for the system before the Cosmos' cancellation, Atari claimed that the holographic images were life like and 3D (Having a three-dimensional form or appearance).
		Everything seemed ready to go, but Atari pulled the plug by the end of 1981, probably due to all the flaws.
		Cosmos units can go for over $10,000 on eBay (additional info and facts about eBay), when and if they are put up for auction.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/at/atari_cosmos.htm (368 words)

	The Atari Cosmos Tabletop Game System
		The Atari Cosmos used the the same CPU chip that was later used in the Entex Adventurevision tabletop game.
		Each of the 8 Atari Cosmos game cartridge were "keyed" so that they would press a combination of the 5 contact buttons located on the LED board with a pattern of plastic keys on the back of each Atari Cosmos game cartridge.
		Atari commented that this was the first of its kind tabletop holographic video game and that the use of the holograms in this fashion was a first attempt and that the reviewers should not be so critical of the use of the holograms in this way.
	www.atarimuseum.com /videogames/dedicated/cosmos/cosmos.html (537 words)

	SPACE NEWSLETTER September 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atari conceded that this was true but defended it by saying that since Cosmos was the first of its kind, such trivialities could be overlooked.
		Atari never counted on the Game Brain to sell in large numbers; rather, it was designed as a way to get rid of all the dedicated game CPUs that they thought would be obsolete with the release of the then-forthcoming VCS.
		Atari planned to appeal to the disco/psychedelic crowd with its stereo-looking device that was to attach to your television and stereo to produce some wacky animations on the tube.
	space.atari.org /news9809.html (5012 words)

	ClassicGaming.com - GOTW: Asteroids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atari became excited about the possibility of using holograms for videogames, and spent a great deal of time and money in the Disco Decade researching holograms and purchasing hologram-related patents.
		Cosmos spent several years in development, partly because the technology to mass-produce the necessary holograms had to be invented before the system could work.
		Atari agreed, and decided to put off the release of Cosmos until the holograms could be used more effectively.
	www.classicgaming.com /rotw/asteroids (1002 words)

	Atari7800.com - The Fun Is Back!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atari Pong was considerably cheaper than the Odyssey due to the lowered expense of microchips and outsold its competitor quite successfully.
		Atari also was infamous for its “mass burials”; most took place at landfills near Atari warehouses and more often than not involved destruction before burial by cement.
		Very unusual for Atari to be so secretive because they had built quite a reputation for teasing the public with unreleased products, prototypes and vaporware.
	www.atari7800.com /history.shtml (4478 words)

	Weird Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atari G1 Light Gun (1986, prototype) Unlike the 2600/7800 and 8-bit computer-compatible light gun, the G1 was meant to be marketed exclusively for the consoles.
		Atari Graduate Computer (CX-3000) (1982-83, prototype) Not to be outdone by keyboard attachments by rivals Coleco and Mattel, Atari promised a VCS computer attachment of its own for most of 1982 and '83.
		Atari CP/M Module (1983-84, prototype) An add-on for the XL series of Atari 8-bit computers, the one shown at World of Atari '98 is believed to be the only one in existence.
	www4.ncsu.edu:8030 /~awwatkin/ATARI/OTHER/weirdinfo.html (2596 words)

	AGH Museum -- Atari Cosmos
		Cosmos was indeed an important breakthrough for Atari.
		By year's end Atari announced that it was listening to the critics' complaints and was redesigning the Cosmos holographic game system so that holograms did more than just provide a nice background to the action.
		Atari Gaming Headquarters (that's us) purchased the only known unit and its box from an ex-Atari employee and revealed it for the first time at the World of Atari '98 show in Las Vegas this past August 21-23, 1998.
	www.atarihq.com /museum/miscatari/cosmos.html (757 words)

	games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atari is keen on the idea, and after meetings throughout April and May, the two companies sign an agreement at the CES in June.
		Atari releases games for the 2600, which are all but ignored by the press, and releases ports for the 7800--Namco's Galaga and Dig Dug, Williams' Robotron: 2084 and Joust, Electronic Arts' 1983 basketball game One-on-One Basketball, and Atari's own Asteroids and Centipede--that everyone has seen before.
		Sales of the Atari Jaguar continue to decline, despite the release of a CD peripheral, which had raised Jaguar supporters' hopes but was most likely dead on arrival from the perspective of Atari executives.
	www.home-buisness-dot.com /games.htm (9873 words)

	The Atari Spector Holoptic Video Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Most people familiar with Atari had heard of the Atari Cosmos holographic video game system that Atari had shown at the New York Toy Fair in 1981 and was readying for a Christmas 81' release.
		However, Atari's management pulled the plug on Cosmos and closed the Holoptics labs and it was never seen again.
		Unlike the Atari Cosmos, the Atari Spector would have a drop in holoptic cylinder which would go into the center chamber of the game and spin around to produce a hologram playfield.
	www.atarimuseum.com /videogames/dedicated/cosmos/spector.html (174 words)

	Atari Cosmos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atari Cosmos is a prototype game that was pretty much finished, but Atari decided to scrap at the last minute.
		5 Cosmos units are known to exist today, and 3 of those 5 are only empty shell mock-ups (although Atari made hundreds of the empty shells, it isn't currently known if these were destroyed/thrown away, or if they are waiting to be in a warehouse or garage somewhere...).
		One of the two working prototypes (and at least one of the mock-ups) belongs to Curt Vendel of the Atari Historical Society (these are his pictured, photographs taken during Philly Classic 2001, thanks again Curt for letting us play with this elusive game!).
	www.handheldmuseum.com /Atari/Cosmos.htm (427 words)

	Weird Info
		Atari 2800 (1983) Similar in external design to the VCS-compatible Sears Video Arcade II, the 2800 was Atari's attempt at tapping into the lucrative Japanese gaming market.
		Atari Mirai (?, prototype) This mock-up is an enigma.
		Atari Space Invaders Handheld Box (1980, prototype) Sensing that money was to be made in the handheld market, Atari was all set to bring out stand-alone fl-and-white versions of Space Invaders and Breakout.
	www4.ncsu.edu /~awwatkin/ATARI/OTHER/weirdinfo.html (2596 words)

	CyberRoach Magazine #2
		Dank was selling holographic backgrounds of COSMOS (he must have at least a few hundred of these) and copies of the original sales brochure.
		A useless precursor of the Atari 2600 jr.
		Atari 8-Bit Expansion Box, and the ST-based Pen Computer, in the upper left there is a Atari 8-Bit-based Videodisc information system.
	www.cyberroach.com /cyromag/two/woa.htm (1697 words)

	[No title]
		Atari had to settle for POLE POSITION, which went on to become the biggest game of 1983.
		Sylvia was intended to be Atari's answer to Intellivision and was in the works long before Pam was born.
		Atari was so hot on ASTEROIDS that it cut short the production run on LUNAR LANDER - Atari's first vector game - and released the 200 complete with LUNAR LANDER cabinet art.
	gamesmuseum.h-body.org /texts/atsecret.txt (1527 words)

	Condensed Atari History
		Under pressure from the Mattel Intellivision and the Colecovision, Atari released the Atari 5200 (and renamed the Atari VCS to the Atari 2600).
		Though the 5200 was essentially an Atari 400 computer in a new case, inter division rivalry caused the 5200 to be incompatible with the Atari 400 computer.
		Atari announced that the Jaguar, a 64-bit cartridge based console, will be released in the summer of 1993 with a suggested retail price of $150.
	www.heartbone.com /comphist/Atari.htm (3385 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC PlayStation 2 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PS3 Xbox 360 PlayStation 3
		Bushnell leaves Atari and signs a lucrative five-year agreement not to compete with the company he started.
		Atari begins selling its line of 400 and 800 computers to compete against Apple.
		Atari develops the Cosmos, a handheld programmable machine that features holograms within the graphics.
	www.gamespot.com /gamespot/features/video/hov/p4_01.html (458 words)

	Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame Games ARTICLE - Atari Holoptics and the Ill-Fated Cosmos
		For all intents and purposes, everything appeared to look as if the Atari Cosmos was well on its' way.
		According to Allan Alcorn, who was the head honcho for the Cosmos project, Ray "The Czar" Kassar, one time CEO of Atari, wasn't willing to risk entering the handheld/tabletop market as well as the fact that the Atari 2600 VCS was the only thing, he (Kassar) had faith in.
		Thanks to the archeological efforts of many former Atari engineers and gaming enthusiasts, the details behind the fiasco were finally revealed.
	www.gooddealgames.com /articles/Atari_Cosmos.html (389 words)

	Video Game Exchange Hot Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even though the show was titled " World of Atari," there was a much larger sense of community present at the show.
		It was strange to see the Atari and Mac Desktops running on the PC, but they were there and they were fast.
		Also included were a prototype Atari pinball machine called Neutron Star from 1981, an Atari Games machine that never saw release called Freeze from 1995, (which was excellent and should have been released), and even the old grandfather Pong itself.
	www.videogex.com /hotstuff.htm (1351 words)

	Vintage Games Atari Game Cartridge - Find it on VideoGameStreet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atari Games in Green Library Space jockey USG Vidtec, 1982.
		Atari Age Assortment: Inside Your Atari VCS Game Cartridge Home andgt; Fi's Atari 2600 Memories andgt; Atari Age Assortment andgt; Inside Your Atari VCS Game Cartridge.
		AGH Museum -- Atari CosmosIn May, 1981, Atari announced that the machine was ready to be released butThe console was to retail at $100 and eight game cartridges, among them the ever
	www.videogamestreet.com /atari-cartridge-game/a20p4315.html (389 words)

	The Atari Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		You can review any Atari game that has not previously been reviewed.
		Many features start by asking a question as the title: "What ever happened to Atari?" and uses the body of the article to answer that question.
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	www.ataritimes.com /writer/ideas.html (601 words)

	BlogMarks.net : Last public marks with tag atari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On those very pages you will find some of my latest GFX, my activities on Atari ST and Amiga, a bunch of oldschool games, some scenish stuff to download and few links...If...
		by redyrod [demo] [atari] [amiga] [oldschool] [gfx] [wallpaper]
		Atom feed is currently experimental and is intended to be used by application developers.
	blogmarks.net /tag/atari (120 words)

	Does hasbro have any real plans? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I mean, Atari had some ideas that still have some potential today that were trashed back in the 80's (cosmos, etc) and the mid 90's (jagduo).
		As an atari fan, i had hoped that hasbro would have brought out some of the old dusty ideas and put them to use.
		It would be nice to see them use the rights to produce a new atari system instead of re-releasing new and improved games for other systems like frogger.
	www.holyoak.com /aid/_disc1/00000161.htm (127 words)

	rllmukforum.com -> Atari Cosmos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atari Cosmos, 1 of 5 in the world
		But I'd suggest that "the best Saturn games" thread is a good way for retro n00bs to become involved in collecting some interesting old stuff.
		Maybe one day they'll be bidding on an Atari Cosmos themselves.
	www.rllmukforum.com /index.php?showtopic=75643 (1080 words)

	PROGRAMMABLE CONSOLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Appairently compatible with the Dick Smith Wizzard, although the cartridges are slightly larger and a panel has to removed to play them.
		An Atari 2600 converter for the ColecoVision that allowed users to play Atari 2600 games.
		Most cartridges from the Atari 2600 could be played on this system.
	www.geocities.com /decpdp1/consoles.html (614 words)

	Studio Nibble Weblog
		The setup was straightforward: a presentations area for speakers, a "museum" area with lots of old-school gaming tech, a couple dozen vendor booths and maybe twenty or thirty arcade consoles set for free play.
		The most interesting ones were right at the start of the first day, and we figured we were better off on the sales floor, staking out first grab of all the hard-to-find stuff.
		Also of note was Intellivision Productions, Inc. The original game designers apparently bought back the rights to the system and most of the games for it, and are busy documenting their history and distributing legal emulated versions on CD-ROM.
	www.studio-nibble.com /weblog (1306 words)

	GadgetMadness :: View topic - Atari Cosmos: The 3D Handheld That Never Was
		Atari Cosmos: The 3D Handheld That Never Was
		Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:46 am Post subject: Atari Cosmos: The 3D Handheld That Never Was
		Permanent link to Atari Cosmos: The 3D Handheld That Never Was
	www.gadgetmadness.com /phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=301 (117 words)

	GadgetMadness :: Atari Cosmos: The 3D Handheld That Never Was (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With all the new handheld gaming systems on the horizon, we thought it would be interesting to step in our time machine and look at one of the most intriguing handheld gaming systems that never came to be.
		The Atari Cosmos used holographic "backdrops" to give an interesting environment to the "flashing LED's" that made up the actual games.
		I wonder how much Atari would have charged for the game though.
	www.gadgetmadness.com /archives/20040326-atari_cosmos_the_3d_handheld_that_never_was.php (449 words)

	Videogaming Illustrated-Dec '83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rumors are running the gamut from: Warners is going to cancel Atari's computer hardware division; to: Warners is going to cancel Atari, the whole shooting match.
		Sure, Atari is losing a bundle for the parent company, executives are being ushered in and out like lambs to the slaughter or shear, 250 white collar jobs
		Whatever happened to Atari's Cosmos series...the long ago announced line of 3D holographic hand held games?
	cvmm.vg-network.com /vgidec83.htm (494 words)

	Atari Cosmos costs one semester of college tuition - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com
		Atari Cosmos costs one semester of college tuition - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com
		Atari Cosmos costs one semester of college tuition
		The Atari Cosmos is a legend in videogaming history.
	www.joystiq.com /entry/1234000453031720 (664 words)

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