Atari 2600 as a lesson to game designers ... and a foreshadowing of the Wii

[Ail]

masschamber said:

Ail said:
That's not an analogy I would actually try to make seeing how the success of the Atari2600 heralded the video game crash of the 80s.....

 

 

the 2600 didn't herald the crash, the problem was the next generation of consoles.  The 2600 was 6 years old when the industry crashed, and the crash occured on the backs of things like the colecovision and atari 5200,

the 2600 and intellivision actually managed to weather the crash and live on until the late 80's/ early 90's

anyway well though out write up there, plus racing the beam, mercy is that true about programming the 2600 you basically have to write your program to feed the next pixel into the TIA just as the television reaches it

I thought the crash really started the holydays ET was released for the 2600....