Buying an Atari VCS in 1978 is not the same as buying an Atari VCS in 2021
I grew up with an Atari VCS (2600) and loved it's blocky games, especially the arcade ports. It was a great game console to have as a kid. Roll forward forty or so years and the Atari VCS is a much different beast. Today, the Atari brand is owned by a holding company who brought a modernized version to marked, still under the VCS name, and installed Atari Vault to stoke it's retro vibe.
It's a strange console today and I'm not sure what to make of it as most of it's capability can be found in a single-board computer for a fraction of the price. It's nice to see the Atari brand in the news, but their days of successful game consoles passed many decades ago. Love their effort, but Bushnell's Atari was a much different company.
