Hot on the heels of the Atari 7800, Atari inexplicably released another game console, the Atari XE Game System (XEGS). A bizarre move, it was as if Atari had realized their losing strategy with the 7800, and wanted to immediately change gears and take an entirely new approach. This time, Atari attempted to leverage their extensive and highly regarded 8-bit computer game library. Eight years in the making, the library was chock full of quality titles. Ironically, Atari had eschewed marketing their computers as game machines in the past, insisting their systems were better suited for "practical" applications (as if!).