video game generations

[strassy]

from the age/nostalgia poll...i almost posted in there but i didn't want to distract from his research

i've always questioned the validity of the "first generation" of video games...with the exception of pong, i never really felt like telstar or odyssey made a big impact on many people beside hardcore computer users and hobbyists. how many people really owned these? 2600/intellivision is where i think video games really got big.

that might just be my bias because i wasn't even born in the first generation, but you really don't hear anything about those systems. i know the information in the poll came from the wikipedia...but i think that first and second generation should really be lumped into one generation, and NES/Master System et al should be the "2nd generation"

[Berty]

from the age/nostalgia poll...i almost posted in there but i didn't want to distract from his research

i've always questioned the validity of the "first generation" of video games...with the exception of pong, i never really felt like telstar or odyssey made a big impact on many people beside hardcore computer users and hobbyists. how many people really owned these? 2600/intellivision is where i think video games really got big.

that might just be my bias because i wasn't even born in the first generation, but you really don't hear anything about those systems. i know the information in the poll came from the wikipedia...but i think that first and second generation should really be lumped into one generation, and NES/Master System et al should be the "2nd generation"

I think that the distinction is made because these first gen machines for the most part art discrete logic, or analogue devices.

I think that the Odysseys impact is very much felt in Pong, especially considering it is a rip off of the Odyssey game "tennis".

[bazariah]

at the end of the day everything starts somewhere.. those machines were the very basis of gaming today and while some were not widespread or mainstream they are part of the history ..

if you look at film making theres a lot of movies from the turn of the century which are largly forgotten about, but in comparitive terms it's the same as gaming