News: Atari Cosmos resurfaces

February 13, 2005, 04:06 PM

by simoniker, via ASSEMbler -
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Over at eBay, there's an incredibly rare Atari Cosmos for sale, for just UKP 9,990 (that's only $18,600, currency conversion fiends.) The Cosmos was a 1981-era Atari prototype handheld that used 3D hologram backdrops with 2D LED-based gameplay. Atari Museum has more Cosmos information - apparently, the console was "the brainchild of Atari engineers Allan Alcorn, Harry Jenkins and Roger Hector, [and] was shown at the New York Toy Fair in 1981." The auction includes holograms from unreleased Asteroids (the original, pre-arcade version was developed for the Cosmos!) and Superman games, but the handheld itself isn't playable, unfortunately.