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| releasedate = unreleased ({{Start date|1978}})<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=piQEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT78&ots=ks9yqAkDw9&dq=%22Game%20Brain%22%201977%20ces&pg=PT78#v=onepage&q=%22Game%20Brain%22%201977%20ces&f=false Music Backdrop For Vegas CES], By Stephen Traiman, Page 81, 14 Jan 1978, Billboard, ''Listings from $19.95 to $59.95, additional carts were shown by...Atari(Warner Communications) for its new Game Brain,..''</ref><ref name=gamebrain1978>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3FwGMtRafrAC&lpg=PA497&dq=%22Game%20Brain%22%20%20ces&pg=PA497#v=onepage&q=%22Game%20Brain%22%20%20ces&f=false Intermission: Innovative Oddities], Page 497, By Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel, Atari Inc: Business is Fun, ''Another interesting console blip that appears on the radar briefly appeared at the 1978 Summer CES. Called the 'Game Brain' Model C-700, it's a cartridge based console system, but it's not microprocessor based like the VCS.''</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZSIqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Game+Brain%22++ces&dq=%22Game+Brain%22++ces&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOtonnpOTLAhXKpJQKHaGVCf4Q6AEIQzAD Page xiii], Weekly Television Digest with Consumer Electronics, Volume 18, Part 1, Editorial & Business Headquarters, 1978, ''NEW ATARI MPU GAME:Atari is moving into lower end of programmable market with new "moderately prices" Game Brain scheduled for introduction at CES this week. At same time Atari ...will be..., delivered in June along with Game Brain.''</ref><ref>[http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/wci_games.html A History of WCI Games / Atari / Atari Games / Atari Holdings], ''1978 June 11-14: At the Summer CES in Chicago Atari introduced the Game Brain (C-700; $115; never shipped), along with four new VCS titles: Basketball (previously announced in April), Capture the Flag (would ship as Flag Capture), The Maze (would eventually ship as Maze Craze), Wizard (never shipped)''</ref>
| releasedate = Unreleased ({{Start date|[[1978 in video gaming|1978]]}})<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=piQEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT78&ots=ks9yqAkDw9&dq=%22Game%20Brain%22%201977%20ces&pg=PT78#v=onepage&q=%22Game%20Brain%22%201977%20ces&f=false Music Backdrop For Vegas CES], By Stephen Traiman, Page 81, 14 Jan 1978, Billboard, ''Listings from $19.95 to $59.95, additional carts were shown by...Atari(Warner Communications) for its new Game Brain,..''</ref><ref name=gamebrain1978>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3FwGMtRafrAC&lpg=PA497&dq=%22Game%20Brain%22%20%20ces&pg=PA497#v=onepage&q=%22Game%20Brain%22%20%20ces&f=false Intermission: Innovative Oddities], Page 497, By Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel, Atari Inc: Business is Fun, ''Another interesting console blip that appears on the radar briefly appeared at the 1978 Summer CES. Called the 'Game Brain' Model C-700, it's a cartridge based console system, but it's not microprocessor based like the VCS.''</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZSIqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Game+Brain%22++ces&dq=%22Game+Brain%22++ces&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOtonnpOTLAhXKpJQKHaGVCf4Q6AEIQzAD Page xiii], Weekly Television Digest with Consumer Electronics, Volume 18, Part 1, Editorial & Business Headquarters, 1978, ''NEW ATARI MPU GAME:Atari is moving into lower end of programmable market with new "moderately prices" Game Brain scheduled for introduction at CES this week. At same time Atari ...will be..., delivered in June along with Game Brain.''</ref><ref>[http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/wci_games.html A History of WCI Games / Atari / Atari Games / Atari Holdings], ''1978 June 11-14: At the Summer CES in Chicago Atari introduced the Game Brain (C-700; $115; never shipped), along with four new VCS titles: Basketball (previously announced in April), Capture the Flag (would ship as Flag Capture), The Maze (would eventually ship as Maze Craze), Wizard (never shipped)''</ref>
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The '''Atari Game Brain''' (Model C-700) is an unreleased [[dedicated console|dedicated video game console]] by [[Atari]],<ref name=gamebrain1978 /> intended to be released in June 1978. It plays 10 particular games, ported from all of Atari's previously released dedicated consoles, such as ''[[Pong]]'', ''[[Stunt Cycle]]'', and ''Video Pinball''. Its controllers were built onto the system, with 4 directional buttons, a paddle, and a fire button.<ref name=gamebrain1978 /> Games are inserted in the top of the system by opening a door that also bears a small instruction booklet.
The '''Atari Game Brain''' (Model C-700) is an unreleased [[dedicated console|dedicated]] [[home video game console]] that was supposed to be released by [[Atari]]<ref name=gamebrain1978 /> in June [[1978 in video gaming|1978]]. It plays 10 particular [[Video game|games]], ported from all of Atari's previously released dedicated consoles, such as ''[[Pong]]'', ''[[Stunt Cycle]]'', and ''Video Pinball''. Its controllers were built onto the system, with 4 directional buttons, a paddle, and a fire button.<ref name=gamebrain1978 /> Games are inserted in the top of the system by opening a door that also bears a small instruction booklet.


The system was not intended as a big seller for Atari but rather as a clearance of [[Central processing unit|CPUs]] from unsold dedicated consoles.<ref name=gamebrain1978 /> By the time the Game Brain was finished, dedicated consoles were becoming obsolete against consoles with removable ROM cartridges, such as the already released [[Fairchild Channel F]], the RCA Studio 2, and Atari's own [[Atari 2600|2600]]. Atari cancelled the Game Brain around 1978. Three Game Brain consoles and five prototype cartridges are known to exist.
The system was not intended as a big seller for Atari but rather as a clearance of [[Central processing unit|CPUs]] from unsold dedicated consoles.<ref name=gamebrain1978 /> By the time the Game Brain was finished, dedicated consoles were becoming obsolete against consoles with removable ROM cartridges, such as the already released [[Fairchild Channel F]], the [[RCA Studio II|RCA Studio 2]], and Atari's own [[Atari 2600]]. Atari cancelled the Game Brain around 1978. Three Atari Game Brain consoles and five prototype cartridges are known to exist.


==Games==
==Games==

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Atari Game Brain
DeveloperAtari
TypeDedicated home video game console
GenerationFirst generation
Release dateUnreleased (1978 (1978))[1][2][3][4]
Units sold0
Units shippedUnknown
Online servicesNone

The Atari Game Brain (Model C-700) is an unreleased dedicated home video game console that was supposed to be released by Atari[2] in June 1978. It plays 10 particular games, ported from all of Atari's previously released dedicated consoles, such as Pong, Stunt Cycle, and Video Pinball. Its controllers were built onto the system, with 4 directional buttons, a paddle, and a fire button.[2] Games are inserted in the top of the system by opening a door that also bears a small instruction booklet.

The system was not intended as a big seller for Atari but rather as a clearance of CPUs from unsold dedicated consoles.[2] By the time the Game Brain was finished, dedicated consoles were becoming obsolete against consoles with removable ROM cartridges, such as the already released Fairchild Channel F, the RCA Studio 2, and Atari's own Atari 2600. Atari cancelled the Game Brain around 1978. Three Atari Game Brain consoles and five prototype cartridges are known to exist.

Games

References

  1. ^ Music Backdrop For Vegas CES, By Stephen Traiman, Page 81, 14 Jan 1978, Billboard, Listings from $19.95 to $59.95, additional carts were shown by...Atari(Warner Communications) for its new Game Brain,..
  2. ^ a b c d Intermission: Innovative Oddities, Page 497, By Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel, Atari Inc: Business is Fun, Another interesting console blip that appears on the radar briefly appeared at the 1978 Summer CES. Called the 'Game Brain' Model C-700, it's a cartridge based console system, but it's not microprocessor based like the VCS.
  3. ^ Page xiii, Weekly Television Digest with Consumer Electronics, Volume 18, Part 1, Editorial & Business Headquarters, 1978, NEW ATARI MPU GAME:Atari is moving into lower end of programmable market with new "moderately prices" Game Brain scheduled for introduction at CES this week. At same time Atari ...will be..., delivered in June along with Game Brain.
  4. ^ A History of WCI Games / Atari / Atari Games / Atari Holdings, 1978 June 11-14: At the Summer CES in Chicago Atari introduced the Game Brain (C-700; $115; never shipped), along with four new VCS titles: Basketball (previously announced in April), Capture the Flag (would ship as Flag Capture), The Maze (would eventually ship as Maze Craze), Wizard (never shipped)
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