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firebush03 said:
Chris Hu said:

Console gaming was not new when Sega released their first console the SG-1000 on July 15, 1983 since the Atari 2600 launched over five years before it in September 1977.  Heck even when the Atari 2600 launched console gaming was not that new since the Magnavox Odyssey launched in September 1972.

The industry was still in its early years during the 1990s, this really isn’t something you can dispute. Yes ofc there have been consoles dating all the way back to the 1970s (the Vetrix was the original IIRC), but e.g. the idea of Nintendo creating a successor system to the SNES—releasing games exclusives to this system—was a novel concept back then.

No, it was not console gaming was popular in the US which is the biggest gaming marked in the world since the early 80s with the Atari 2600.   Again, the early years of console gaming where already over by the time the Sega S-1000 was released by that time there where already dozens of other consoles released before it.