
Originally Posted by
Orion Pimpdaddy
Lumping 5200 and Colecovision in with the Atari 2600? That seems reasonable to me. Those were pre-crash consoles. The crash was one of the defining events in video game history, so it's an excellent way to group them. It's the same way with human history, which divides things around wars, like WWII (pre-war period and post-war period)