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episteme said: Don't forget the Atari 2600 and home computers. |
Beat me to it! 
The Atari was my first system so I'm probably biased, but I think you could make an argument that the 2600 was the first video game console to really get the public's attention. It wasn't the first console by any stretch (in fact, it was preceded by an entire generation) but was it not the first multi-million-selling console? I'd have to check that to be sure. But I know that, back in the day, it was the console to have (in terms of popularity).
Come to think of it, weren't the Atari's loadable cartridges a big deal at the time? I'm not sure if the first gen even had any non-dedicated consoles. Weren't they all dedicated platforms prior to the second gen? This is going back before even my time, so I can't say for sure.
ColdFire - The man with no name.
