Atari Panther

{{short description|Cancelled video game console}}

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{{Infobox information appliance

| title = Atari Panther

| logo = Atari Panther Logo.png

| image = Atari Panther Side Angle.jpg

| caption = Unofficial 3D model

| developer = Atari Corporation

| type = Home video game console

| generation = Fourth

| CPU = 68000

| GPU = Panther

| media = Cartridge

| release date = Cancelled

| predecessor = Atari 7800, XEGS

| successor = Jaguar

}}

Atari Panther was the codename for a cancelled video game console from Atari Corporation planned as the successor to the Atari 7800 and the Atari XEGS. It was developed by Flare Technology, the same ex-Sinclair team who worked on the cancelled Flare One and Konix Multisystem consoles.{{cite web | url=https://www.konixmultisystem.co.uk/index.php?id=interviews&content=martin | title=Slipstream: The Konix Multi-system Archive }} It was planned to be a 16-bit console and was slated at one point to be 32-bit.{{cite book |title=Atari: From Boom to Bust and Back Again |publisher=Imagine Publishing |year=2012}}

Work started in 1988 with a planned 1991 release to compete with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.atari-explorer.com/jaguar-panther.html|title=Video Game Systems :: Jaguar :: Atari Panther|website=www.atari-explorer.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031202031226/http://www.atari-explorer.com/jaguar-panther.html|archive-date=2003-12-02|url-status=|access-date=2019-03-27}} The Panther was never commercially released as the design was abandoned for the Atari Jaguar.