He had originally planned to mount the whole thing in an Atari controller like this commercial product. Serendipity intervened and he realized the entire system (sans cartridge port) fit inside a ...

rather than by advancing the state of the gaming art in any appreciable way. Most importantly, Atari began to release all-new cartridges. As Garry Kitchen and David Crane pointed out in Atari 50 ...

As Activision’s F-14 Tomcat game for the Atari 2600 console, it seemed ripe for use as a project enclosure of some sort. When he came across a couple of 9-pin D-sub joystick ports, he had an idea.

The team has also released several cartridge titles that work with the system, much like how it used to work with a ton of Atari's back catalog. We have more details on these items below.