Reconditioned Atari US CX7800 System. Comes with CX7800 Console (All in like New condition), two New Non Atari brand BP or Pro-Stick Joysticks your choice (Click here to see pictures of the Joysticks) (Some Atari 7800 game cartridges require an Atari CX24 Joystick or CX78 Joypad for proper game operation), New Atari CX7800 Power Supply, New Atari Cable Ready Universal TV Switch Box (better than stock supplied 7800 original non cable ready Atari TV switch box), New Upgraded Atari RF Cable (better than stock supplied 7800 short RF cable), New boxed Atari 7800 Jinks game with Owners Manual (see Atari 7800 Game listing below for more information on the Atari 7800 Jinks game), New 7800 System Owners Manual and comes with the same Atari 90 day Warranty as when they were first released! CX7800-RE Temporally out of stock!
Norm C. of MD "Just wanted to send a quick note to let you know I love the 7800 Atari I purchased from you guys..... It plays like new...." Bests Reconditioned Atari CX7800 Console.
Keith C. of TX "Hello Best Electronics, I am sending this message to say how unbelievably happy I am with my purchase from you. The 7800 controller is awesome!" Atari CX78 Joypad "No more arthritis pain from the dreaded ProLine(PainLine) controllers.)" CX24 Atari Joystick "Had a lot of fun with Mario Bros. Thank You Best Electronics! You made my day with these controllers and a happy gamer! You got yourselves a future customer! BTW you told me I would get my order by this Friday. And I got it today on Monday!?!?!? Lightning fast!! Thanks for everything!!! You guys are simply THE BEST!!! I will recommend all my retro gaming friends to you! THANKS A MILLION GUYS!!! A+++++++++++++++:-)"
Reconditioned Atari US CX7800 System Upgraded with the Atari Engineering 7800 Rev. 2 Composite Video Modification below. Comes with CX7800 Console (All in like New condition), two New Non Atari brand PB or Pro-Stick Joysticks your choice (Click here to see pictures of the Joysticks) (Some Atari 7800 game cartridges require an Atari CX24 Joystick or CX78 Joypad for proper game operation), New Atari CX7800 Power Supply, New boxed Atari 7800 Jinks game with Owners Manual (see Atari 7800 Game listing below for more information on the Atari 7800 Jinks game), New 7800 System Owners Manual and comes with the same Atari 90 day Warranty as when they were first released! CX7800-RECV Temporally out of stock!
James B. of MA James ordered one Bests Reconditioned 7800 consoles with the Best Composite Video mods. "I love the 7800! The picture is so clear and crisp! The console looks brand new! I don't know how you did it, but thank you for still being here and supporting Atari. You really are the best!"
Adrian R. of Canada "You'll be happy to know that I got the console in the mail today." Bests Reconditioned Atari 7800 console with upgraded Composite Video out Modification "I was surprised at the quality of the packaging, you could probably toss that boxed 7800 off a three storey building and it'd still be okay! Thank you for your courteous and prompt service, I look forward to doing business with BE in the future."
Follow
up Comment a month later before placing his second Atari order
"The 7800 console has been
working perfectly, if you're wondering... plays like the day it rolled
off the assembly line."
Mike H. of OH
"I received the system today, and it works wonderfully --
thanks!" Mike got one of Bests Recondtioned
7800 Consoles with the Atari Engineering Composite Video and the Euro
7800 OS Mods. "I think the first thing I noticed (other
than the excellent composite output) is how easily the cartridges are to
insert. The two used systems I tried previously were very fussy and hard
to seat the games, but they pop in neatly and easily on this system."
Curtis M. of AZ.
"I received my modded 7800 tonight." Curtis
ordered one of Bests Reconditioned / upgraded 7800 Consoles with
Composite Video out and Euro OS mods. "I was really blown
away by the condition it is in and wanted to send a thank you note for
the excellent service! You have a great reputation on so many classic
gaming forums I go to though that I decided to take the plunge and I'm
gad I did. My games are playing great and it's nice to know there's a
resource like Best if I need anything else for my console or some more
games. Thanks for the great service and fast shipping. Hopefully
I'll be placing some more orders soon!"
Reconditioned Atari US CX7800 System Upgraded with the Atari Engineering 7800 Rev. 2 Composite Video Modification and Atari 7800 OS Upgrades below. Comes with CX7800 Console (All in like New condition), two New Non Atari brand PB or Pro-Stick Joysticks your choice (Click here to see pictures of the Joysticks) (Some Atari 7800 game cartridges require an Atari CX24 Joystick or CX78 Joypad for proper game operation), New Atari CX7800 Power Supply, New boxed Atari 7800 Jinks game with Owners Manual (see Atari 7800 Game listing below for more information on the Atari 7800 Jinks game), New 7800 System Owners Manual and comes with the same Atari 90 day Warranty as when they were first released! CX7800-RECVOS Temporally out of stock!
Michael D. of NJ Michael purchased one of Bests Reconditioned / Upgraded 7800 consoles with Composite Video out and Euro 7800 OS mods. "Just wanted to thank you for the prompt shipment and excellent service. Just received the modded 7800 today and it looks and plays great! Hope to do business again soon"
Atari 7800 US Diagnostic Cartridge. Will display a single 7800 Diagnostic 7800 boot up Screen. Necessary to adjust the 7800 top color pot back to factory color settings. You plug in the Atari 7800 Diagnostic Cartridge and turn on your Atari 7800 console and wait about 5 to 10 seconds for the 7800 Diagnostic screen to appear. CB101195 $39.95
Atari Composite Video cable 1st time Install Atari Tech tip
Atari Engineering 7800 Composite Monitor Rev. 2 Upgrade!
General Information
When Best Electronics helped cleared out all of the Sunnyvale Atari Warehouses over a 10+ year period, one of the additional buildings we bid on and got the rights to remove any Atari Hardware from was the Atari Corp. Main building 1196 Borregas Ave. In this Atari Corp. building was Atari Purchasing, Engineering, Engineering Prototype lab, Sales, Accounting, Marketing, Legal and other Atari departments.
Adam P. of of WI "I just wanted to say thanks for the quick email replies and the great service. I was very surprised when I received what I ordered from you 2 days after I ordered it. The composite video mod works great! It's a world of difference compared to the RF video/audio." Adam ordered one of Bests 7800 Composite Video Upgrade Kits. "If I ever need anything else Atari related, you can be sure I'll come to you first. Thanks again!"
In the Atari Engineering section we came across a single Modified US Atari 7800 console. It got put into a box and stored onto one of the thousands and thousands of Pallets of Atari goods we put into our San Jose Warehouse over the years. We recently finally broke down one of those Pallets of Atari items from the Atari Corp building and again found the Engineering 7800 console. To us this 7800 looked like an Atari Engineer’s modified 7800 with a Composite Video mod installed console. This Modified stock Atari 7800 motherboard had two Engineering mods installed. The 7800 Composite Video Mod and the Euro 7800 Operating Chip mod upgrades. See the past this Composite Video Upgrade for more information on this second 7800 OS Chip mod.
Best Electronics has Engineered two upgrades to the Atari Engineers original Composite Video design by enhancing the Video display with a sharper Composite Video Display with improved color display and color saturation. The Best second 7800 CV upgrade to the original design, is for the 7800 Game Cartridges that have a Pokey sound chip within the game cartridge. This Pokey 7800 game cartridge based sound output was missing from the original Atari Engineers CV design.
This 7800 Composite Video mod is relative easy mod to do. It requires, removing (unsoldering the internal 7800 RF Modulator), removing some 7800 motherboard components, adding some new components, cutting and lifting up some soldered in 7800 motherboard components. But there are no permanent 7800 Motherboard trace cuts or modifications to the 7800 motherboard which can not be reversed should this composite video Mod not work for you. Compared to other more expensive 7800 Composite video upgrades, the Atari Engineering version does not require any cutting, drilling, or modifying of the Atari 7800 top or bottom plastic cases. Because you will remove the Atari 7800 internal RF Modulator in this 7800 upgrade, you will no longer be able to connect up your Atari 7800 to your TV thru the normal RF cable to the rear Coax TV input / TV Switch box.
The quick way you can tell you if you have the US 7800 Motherboard, check to the left of the Atari 7800 right angle Power jack on the Atari 7800 Motherboard. If you find a MJE 210 Transistor next to the 7800 Power Jack, you have a US 7800 motherboard.
Items required for this 7800 Composite Video Modification.
General Soldering: 25 Watt Soldering Iron
RF Modulator Unsoldering: 35 Watt Soldering Iron
Solder
Needle Nose Pliers
Small pair of Diagonal cutters
Flat blade Screwdriver
A good Solder Sucker or a lot of Solder Wick
The abilty to follow written installation instructions with pictures.
This upgrade is so simple no schematics / prints are supplied. You should be able to solder and unsolder, read Resistor color codes and read the silk screen component locations on the Atari 7800 Motherboard
About 1 to 2 hours installation time.
A 12 page written set of Installation instructions with 10 color pictures
All Electronic Components required for this 7800 Composite Video Mod.
Set of 6ft Composite Video and Audio cables with Gold Plated connects modified for installation onto the 7800 motherboard
1 Plastic tie wrap (to strap down/strain relief) the Composite video cables to the 7800 Motherboard.
A New set of 7800 Case shorter screws.
Best Atari 7800 Tech tip: If you are considering doing this 7800 Composite Video mod or Euro 7800 OS Upgrade, you should also consider ordering at least two new replacement 7800 On/Off and Game Start/Reset switches ($1.50 each). On all Atari 7800 consoles made, the 7800 switches have a Very high failure rate and should automatically be replaced if you go inside your 7800 console. The cheaper made switches used on most 7800 Motherboards are basically ticking time booms. Because of these poor designed push button switches, when the 7800 motherboards were wave soldered, all of the acids, rosins and chemicals (all heated to very high melting / flash points) used during the wave solder process (normally chemically washed off the bottom of the 7800 PCB boards in a down line wave solder process), leaked into each 7800 switch thru small openings in the bottom of the 7800 switches. With enough time (10 to 15 years after the 7800 motherboards were 1st produced) the all of the 7800 internal switch contacts have been damaged or corroded internally. An old Atari 7800 PCB switch may look new on the outside of the switch, but inside because of the left over chemicals and acids are just ticking time booms that will all 100% fail.
The New Atari 7800 switches we have in stock are the better Japanese made Alps brand switches. Just about all of the 7800 Motherboards made use Taiwan or China made cheaper 7800 push button switches.
New Bests Alps Japan made high quality 7800 replacement switch with normal 90 day Atari Warranty. $1.50 each plus shipping
Atari 7800 console rubber foot set (4) CB103158 $1.50
James A. of CO "The European chip mod I bought for the 7800 last time was a great project, by the way." James upgraded his Atari US / NTSC 7800 with Best 7800 EURO Upgrade Kit below. This Best Upgrade kit replaces the stock Atari 7800 OS ROM with the upgraded Atari Engineering 7800 Euro version. This 7800 Upgrade ROM removes the normal Atari 7800 delay Color Rainbow window and allows any 7800 game to instantly boot up / play. It also installs a complete internal Atari 7800 Asteroids Game as the default game when no 2600 or 7800 game cartridge is installed in the 7800 console.
Aaron L. of TX Aaron wanted work on this ailing Atari 7800 console. So he ordered from Best Electronics, New Atari 7800 replacement switches, Bests 7800 Composite Video upgrade Kit and Bests 7800 Euro OS upgrade Kit. The new 7800 switches made Aaron's hard to turn on old 7800 console, act like it was brand new 7800 again. The second 7800 upgrade Aaron did, the Best 7800 Composite Video mod went very well for Aaron and he was very happy with the 1st two 7800 upgrades he did. But Aaron run into a problem with the 3rd 7800 Euro OS upgrade he was trying to install on his 7800 console. Several Atari Information tips and Atari trouble shooting tips and E-Mails from our Atari 30+ Super Tech:
Atari Engineering 7800 Euro Operating System Upgrade Mod for US 7800 Consoles!
General Information
Atari Engineering released two versions of the Atari 7800 Operating System chips. The US version has the known 7800 boot up / delay screen with the Atari Logo / color bars, before the inserted Atari 7800 game cartridge screen appears. The Euro 7800 OS chip / 7800 Euro Consoles have a build in Atari 7800 Asteroids game (turn on your 7800 with no game cartridge inserted and 7800 Asteroids would be the default game) and will instantly start any 7800 game (no more Atari 7800 Logo delay screen) when a 7800 game cartridge was installed. Both versions of the Atari 7800 OS chips both instantly start up all 2600 Game Cartridges. This Atari Euro 7800 upgrade chip will also allow you to play more of the Atari 7800 PAL Games that will not normally / properly run on the NTSC / US version Atari 7800 consoles. Some Atari 7800 PAL Games require a PAL 7800 MARIA chip and will not run on a US 7800 motherboard modified with the Best 7800 OS EURO upgrade.
When Best Electronics cleared out Atari Engineering department we found several Atari Engineering samples of US 7800 consoles modified with a Universal PAL / US upgrade version 7800 OS chip. This Atari Engineering Enhanced / Hybrid / Universal Atari 7800 OS Upgrade chip can be installed in any US / NTSC 7800 console and will give you the same above upgraded features as Atari Euro version 7800 consoles produced. To Install / Upgrade in a US 7800 console, requires some soldering, additional I.C. chip, trace cutting and an extra wire jumper added to a US 7800 Motherboard.
Items required for this 7800 Euro Operating Modification
General Soldering: 25 Watt Soldering Iron
Solder
Needle Nose Pliers
Xacto knife
Small pair of Diagonal cutters
VOM Meter
Phillips Screwdriver
A good Solder Sucker or a lot of Solder Wick
The abilty to follow written installation instructions
The ability to read chip pin numbers
This upgrade is so simple no schematics / prints are supplied.
About 1/2 to 1 hour installation time.
New 7800 OS chip
Jumper wire
New 7800 28 pin OS I.C. Socket
New Interface I.C.
Atari 7800 US Consoles OS Upgrade Kit CB102669 $17.95
For the first time in 22+ years, Brand New Custom made Atari Dust Covers for the Atari 7800 Consoles. These Translucent see thru Dust Covers, have a tailored fit with reinforced edging around the base and custom tapered fit. CB103122 $12.95
One of the Few 7800 Light Gun Games Atari Released in Europe (PAL versions), but NEVER in the US, was Atari 7800 Sentinel. Sentinel is a fast action arcade-style game requiring lightning fast reflexes and skillful shooting through four deadly alien landscapes.
You are a Scientist and your Invention, a Pulsating, Glowing Orb called the Sentinel, Absorbs and Stores Energy from a variety of sources. A direct hit on the enemy power cells, Ground and Air Attack vehicles drains the Energy from the Alien Source and feeds it into the Sentinel.
Their are four Alien Planets, 1 or 2 player versions and three difficulty levels (Easy, Standard, Difficult) and three life's per game. You can turn off the Sentinel back ground music by moving one of the front 7800 difficulty switches.
Supplied without instructions, Scanned color label from a PAL Atari Sentinel Cartridge, in a plastic bag. Atari NTSC / US Prototype 7800 Sentinel game. Requires the Atari XE or Best Electronics Atari Light Gun for use on a tube TV only.
$45.95
Chris C. of WA.
Chris placed an Atari for some 7800 boxed Games and the
Best Reconditioned / Upgraded CX24 Proline Gold
Joystick. One of the Atari 7800 games he ordered was Ballblazer.
Best told Chris after selling the new in the box
Atari 7800 Ballblazer games for over 25+ years, we are now down to the last
couple of them. All new boxes have dings, dents and crushed in
sides, front / back of the boxes. "Just want to say as a first time
customer (long time looker) I am more then pleased, the BallBlazer you said had
some damaged I would not have thought twice about if you said nothing.
Everything was better then expect with quick shipping and well packed.
Looking forward to placing more orders in the future soon."
7800 Game Cartridges as of 10-27-24
Limited supply on all 7800 titles, some titles only one is in stock, sold on a first come first serve basis!
Atari 7800 Titles (Boxed)
Barn Blaster (Can also be used with Best or Atari Light Guns), Hat Trick (Ice Hockey Game), Tower Toppler $15 ea. Asteroids, Pole Position II, One on One $19.95 ea. Ace of Aces, Jinks, Karateka, Meltdown (7800 Light Gun Game), Real Sports Baseball, Winter Games $29.95 ea. Ballblazer, Cracked, Desert Falcon, Dig Dug, Xevious $35.95 ea. Crossbow (7800 Light Gun Game), Donkey Kong Jr., Food Fight, $39.95 Centipede, Fight Night, Ms Pac Man, Robotron 2084 $49.95 Dark Chambers $99.95
See above for Atari 7800 Sentinel Light Gun game
Atari Titles
(loose cartridges, no Instructions)Tower Toppler, Baseball, Karateka, Dig Dug, Asteroids, Food Fight, Hat Trick, Xevious, One and One All at $15 ea
Ballblazer $29.95
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