They received an important piece of game dev history from [Richard Costello], who coded ports of Gauntlet 2, Mortal Kombat, and Primal Rage for Atari ST and Amiga home computers.

Atari decided to try its hand at a PC clone in 1987, releasing the Atari PC, an 8MHz 8088 machine with 512KB of RAM and a 360KB 5.25-inch floppy drive in a Mega ST-style case.

Certain models were given the MEGA moniker (MEGA ST, MEGA STE). STacy and ST BOOK were portable versions. Atari STs supported 640x480 monochrome and 640x200 color displays.