So what type of games are available for the 7800? Mostly arcade ports, and very good ones at that. The system is backwards compatible with the 2600 and is in fact in my opinion 'the atari console system' to own.

The system could output 320x200x256 with 25 colors and 100 sprites and that shows. The sound is lacking in quality though as it uses the same limited sound chip as the 2600.

It's a much overlooked system as the 7800 has great games available for it. Excellent ports of arcade games, mostly action arcade style games. It was designed to be upgradable to a full computer - probably something to up-ease worrying parents - but this never became a reality contrary to the likes of some other 8 bit consoles out there offering the same 'expandability'.

System and software library get a whopping 87% from me.

The Philips Entertaible Digital Board Gaming Surface: Photo from PC Magazine onlinePC Magazine, reporting on news from the Internationale Funkausstellung, a consumer electronics show in Berlin, revealed that Philips will show off the Entertaible, a digital board-gaming surface, on Friday.

We've of course recently seen over the past several years the rise of virtual physical games, if you want to call them that, mostly in "arcades" (if even those can be called that anymore). Essentially these games take real world concepts like shuffleboard or bowling, and use partial physical items, like paddles or pucks, that are utilized on a flat, virtual surface, and interact with an impact sensor at the end of the table to make something happen on the video screen, preferably accurately reflecting what would happen if it were an all physical setup. There's also been quite a bit of controversy in the pinball world, where these virtual machines take the form factor of traditional pinball machines, but do the majority of their work via a video screen. This allows for infinitely configurable tables, but is it still really pinball, or more akin to what we play on our computers and videogame systems? In any case, the revolution, if you want to call it that, has been well under way.