I had a 5200 as a kid and threw it away (! Idiot) when I got an NES.
This spring I bought a 5200 with trackball controller, plug-in 2600 game converter, 6 pairs of 2600 paddle controllers and joysticks and a dozen or so miscellaneous games for $10 at a garage sale (and the storage tub it all came in!)
> And what was the deal with the touch-tone keypads on controllers at the time?
> Intellivision, Colecovision, 5200, and even much later the Jaguar!
yeah the keypads are total crap
> And what about that storage space in the back? I can sort of understand that with the
> Astrocade. I guess so it would match up well with the 8-track storage. But it seemed
> rather outdated with the 5200.
two 5200 controllers fit nicely into that storage space.
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