 Ted Nelson reviewed the computer in the magazine in June 1980, calling it "an extraordinary graphics box".Describing his and a friend's "shouting and cheering and clapping" during a demo of "Star Raiders", Nelson wrote that he was so impressed that "I've been in computer graphics for twenty years, and I lay awake night after night trying to understand how the Atari machine did what it did".He described the machine as "something else" before criticizing the company for a lack of developer documentation.