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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The console generation numbers always weird me out, because the start of time - console gen that was out when I was born - is considered "third gen" instead of first.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't even know what separates the first two generations of home consoles - it's just an amorphous blob of Ataris and Collecovisons, and other shit I've vaguely heard about but never played.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Second Gen was mostly defined by swappable cartridges instead of built in games

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So the old Pong and video pinball games were first gen, and the Atari consoles are second - makes sense!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yep! The big advancement was general purpose cpus instead of purpose built logic that allowed swappable program roms