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Why the Atari 2600 was breakthrough technology (slicker.me)
submitted 2 weeks ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

Ai slop ๐Ÿคฎ

[โ€“] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, the cartridge system was a (pardon the pun) game changer. Sure someone did it first but Atari really made it main stream. It allowed for a lot of what we see today. Sure you were dropping what was about a $1,000 in today's money on a toy for you and your kids but you could play so many games on it.
The idea that you had a machine in your living room that you could change what it did just by putting in a new cartridge was mind breaking in the 70's. Sure your TV could play 5 or 6 channels maybe but it still was a TV, getting a Atari made it a home entertainment system. The whole one machine that did so many different games paved the way for the whole home entertainment universe we have today.

[โ€“] who@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

What's impressive to me is how much more was done by later machines, like the Commodore 64, using almost the same CPU as the one in the Atari 2600.