Editing Atari XEGS (section)

==Reception==
Atari sold 100,000 XE Game Systems during the Christmas season in 1987, every unit that was produced during its launch window.<ref>{{Cite magazine| magazine=[[Antic (magazine)|Antic]] | url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n1/marketplace.html| first=Nat | last=Friedland | title=Editorial: Ever-Changing Atari Marketplace| via=atarimagazines.com | access-date=March 1, 2021}}</ref> Matthew Ratcliff called the game and computer combination "a brilliant idea", which "has been selling out almost as fast as toy stores can get them in".<ref name="XEGS info"/> He said, "The XEGS may not seem like such a hot idea to serious Atari computer users. But just think about it. If you were afraid of computers or don't have the foggiest idea what to do with one, you'd have absolutely no interest in an Atari 65XE{{mdash}}even if it could play great games. However, you'd probably have no compunction about buying a great video game system, the XEGS, as a new addition to the family entertainment center." In 1988, he wrote in [[Antic (magazine)|''Antic'' magazine]] that, to switch between light gun and joystick games, active XEGS gamers are frustrated by the need to continually re-plug their devices and power cycle the system, due to the system's lack of autodetection, which is complicated by its awkwardly downward slanting ports. He said "''Barnyard Blaster'' and ''Bug Hunt'' could have been just a bit smarter" by including the simple routine that he was forced to write and publish as a workaround.<ref name="Antic 7,9">{{cite magazine | magazine=[[Antic (magazine)|Antic]] | first=Matthew | last=Ratcliff | title=XG-1 Light Gun Finder | url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n8/xg1light.html | date=December 1988 | volume=7 | issue=8 | access-date=February 28, 2021}}</ref>