| Soundwave said: The Famicom launched in Japan the same *exact* day as Sega launched their competing SG-1000 console (no one mentions this of course). The Famicom was waaaaay more powerful, it could easily handle (for the time) complex scrolling level games while the SG-1000 was kind of stuck in like Atari 2600 land with static screen games on a generic black background type of thing. In the West, most people's conception of a home console then was basically the Atari 2600, the NES was a monstrous upgrade over an Atari 2600, it's like going from silent films to movies that have sound and color. |
A bit of overexaggeration here - ColecoVision is something that launched in 1982 and was way ahead of Atari 2600 (which is understandable, as 2600 was 1977, and ColecoVision is the actual start of 3rd gen), and THE product that impressed Famicom designers and set the bar for it.
