Editing Atari 7800 (section)

== Games ==
{{Main|List of Atari 7800 games|List of Atari 2600 games}}
[[File:Atari 7800 with Cartridge.jpg|thumb|Atari 7800 with ''Donkey Kong Junior'' cartridge]]

While the system can play the over 400 games for the Atari 2600, there were only 59 official releases  for the 7800. The lineup emphasized high-quality versions of games from the [[golden age of arcade video games]].<ref name="cgw198808">{{cite magazine | title=Video Gaming World | magazine=[[Computer Gaming World]] | issue=50 | date=August 1988 | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_50.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_50.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live | access-date=17 April 2016 | last1=Katz | first1=Arnie | last2=Kunkel | first2=Bill | last3=Worley | first3=Joyce | pages=47}}</ref> ''[[Pole Position II]]'', ''[[Dig Dug]]'', and ''[[Galaga]]'', by the time of the 1986 launch, were three, four, and five years old, respectively. A raster graphics version of 1979's ''[[Asteroids (video game)|Asteroids]]'' was released in 1987. In 1988, Atari published a conversion of Nintendo's ''[[Donkey Kong (1981 video game)|Donkey Kong]]'', seven years after the original arcade game and five years after the [[Atari 8-bit computer]] cartridge.  Atari also marketed a line of games called "Super Games" which were arcade and computer games previously not playable on a home console such as ''[[One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird|One-On-One Basketball]]'' and ''[[Impossible Mission]]''.<ref>[http://www.tankgirl.info/8bit/images/atari/7800/boxBottom.jpg Image] tankgirl.info</ref>

Eleven games were developed and sold by three third-party companies under their own labels ([[Absolute Entertainment]], [[Activision]], and [[Froggo]]) with the rest published by Atari Corporation. Most of the games from Atari were developed by outside companies under contract.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jung|first1=Robert A.|title=The Atari Timeline|url=https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/atari/museum/Atari-Timeline.html|website=Landley|access-date=13 February 2017}}</ref>

Some NES games were developed by companies who had licensed their title from a different arcade manufacturer. While the creator of the NES version would be restricted from making a competitive version of an NES game, the original arcade copyright holder was not precluded from licensing out rights for a home version of an arcade game to multiple systems. Through this loophole, Atari 7800 conversions of ''[[Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[Double Dragon]]'', ''[[Commando (video game)|Commando]]'', ''[[Rampage (1986 video game)|Rampage]]'', ''[[Xenophobe (video game)|Xenophobe]]'', ''[[Ikari Warriors]]'', and ''[[Kung-Fu Master (video game)|Kung-Fu Master]]'' were licensed and developed.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

A final batch of games was released by Atari in 1990: ''[[Alien Brigade]]'', ''[[Basketbrawl]]'', ''[[Fatal Run]]'', ''[[Meltdown (Atari 7800)|Meltdown]]'', ''[[Midnight Mutants]]'', ''MotorPsycho'', ''[[Ninja Golf]]'', ''Planet Smashers'', and ''[[Scrapyard Dog]]''. ''Scrapyard Dog'' was later released for the [[Atari Lynx]].