• Owl [he/him]
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    10 days ago

    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.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      10 days ago

      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.

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          9 days ago

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

          • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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            9 days ago

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