How much did an Atari 2600 cost in 1977?
It was super expensive. I believe people back then looked at an Atari and each cart as a very long term purchase almost like a pool table. I don’t think people imagined how fast the carts and consoles would become dated. In May 1981, the Atari 800’s price was $1,050 (equivalent to $3,600 in 2024), but by mid-1983, because of price wars in the industry, it was $165 (equivalent to $520 in 2024) and the 400 was under $150 (equivalent to $470 in 2024), down from under $300 (equivalent to $980 in 2024) in 1982.The Atari 800XL was the third version of the Atari 8-bit line of computers introduced in 1983. The system contained a full 64K of memory, had all the standard VLSI chips (Antic, GTIA, Pokey, PIA) and was in a smaller and more compact design.The designers of the atari 2600 selected an inexpensive cartridge interface that has one fewer address pins than the 13 allowed by the 6507, further reducing the already limited addressable memory from 8 kb (213 = 8,192) to 4 kb (212 = 4,096).
What is Atari 100k?
To address sample inefficiency, the Atari 100k challenge was introduced, limiting training data to 100,000 frames—roughly two hours of gameplay (Kaiser et al. And that’s not even getting into the sheer skill/smarts it takes to get a game working on an Atari in the first place due to the insanely tight tech limits, such as that EVERY game has to run at 60 FPS and the extremely tiny memory allotted.