Mnementh on 11 July 2017
| fatslob-:O said: I'm kinda bummed out that the Atari 2600 doesn't get the credit it deserves for being the absolute first to show that there was mass market potential for consoles ... You can talk about the NES all you want about reviving the console market in North America with stronger it's stronger licensing rights and that it brought console gaming to Japan but that doesn't compare with the Atari 2600 alone for setting setting trends in the new console generations to come thereafter ... |
Because Magnavox Odyssey was the one that showed that potential. Atari was one of the companies that saw the success and jumped into that market, one of the many companies, and with their experience in arcade automats and game programming they could be most successful, but what the Odyssey did was incredible and it was the blueprint that Atari and the others used.
