Since their was no internet at the time, and consoles and gamin were a very nice market at the time, I propose we give the 1st generation consoles the battle they deserved.

Maganavox Odyssey vs Atari Pong vs. Legions Of Clones

chose your side and fight for your console

Im a Magnavox supporter.

More like the Fairchild channel F minus!

Atari FTW!

the ody1 isn't in the same gen as the 26, and channel f, it uses discrete logic and games are selected by jumpers, though it is a cool system ever see the odyssey rifle?
the odyssey 2 was in competition with the 26 and channel f, as were to a lesser extent the rca studio 2 (worst system of all time), the mpf-1000 (near non existent), and the coleco telstar... I forget what the model was called but it had interchangable rom carts
and sort of the bally astrocade/computer library/professional arcade/ whatever else they felt like calling it
and if we go international stuff like the cassette vision, interton vc4000 and the sg
plus the main competition to the atari was the mattel intellivision
so really the war was between the 2600 and the Intellivision, and to a lesser extent the od^2
personally I'd back the 2600, I like the intv but it's weaker library wonky controllers and it's screwball 10-bit slow as molasses in January process hold it back
and the od^2 has too many problems to list including the inability to display backgrounds

definately

Atari Pong not Atari 2600 ^^^

u know that thing with the controlls built into the case?

Never even heard of the fairchild, and wasn't born till after they were all gone.

didn't notice you said pong, then the channel f isn't competing with them, and frankly in that gen it's the ody vs pong vs the legions of clones,

due to some wacky cases I'm siding with the legions of clones

^^^ Ok fine Ill edit my 1st post.

So can we legally call this the clone wars?

I have never heard of a maganavox odyssey...what is this?

Atari for me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey

1st video game console