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A History of Game Consoles, As Seen on TV
PC World is running a great retrospective on videogame consoles, looking all the way back to Atari's pong. The best part is, they're doing it via television ads for the systems. The article features highly entertaining blipverts for Pong, the Fairchild, the VCS, the 2600, the Intellivision, the Odyssey, Vectrex, Colecovision, the Atari 5200, and many, many more. From the article: "Gamers were tiring of PONG consoles, and Fairchild Instrument and Camera's Channel F console offered a fresh new alternative. It featured programmable 'videocarts' containing ROM chips and code, as opposed to the dedicated circuits that the Magnavox Odyssey's plug-in cards used. The cartridge concept emerged as an industry standard, and is still used in handheld gaming devices today."
is that I'm reading their article SANS advertisements, and I have a feeling many other slashdotters are as well, keeping them from making much ad revenue with this pathetic slashvertisement.
Zonk should consider widening his field of view, and maybe approving not quite as many pointless videogame related articles.
But then I guess that's like asking Ed Gein to leave that pretty girl's face on the pretty girl.
I reckon he's Roland Piquepaille's sockpuppet.
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