It took 8 days for the XGS to finally arrive from the US. Reading the forums and documents on the XGS site helped pass the time.

Below is a picture of the XGS along with joystick, user guide, e-book and SX programming manual. Not shown is the expansion module, sx key programmer, logic exploration kit and logic probe.

Hardware is fun, there’s something about knowing how everything works under the hood even if you don’t really need to know.

Enter the XGameStation

The XGS Micro Edition’s graphics hardware was inspired by retro designs such as the Atari 2600, Atari 800, and Apple II to give the system the most flexibility possible while at the same time keeping the hardware complexity to a minimum so users can understand the system. Therefore, the graphics are generated via asoftware / hardware combination without a dedicated frame buffer or sprite system.