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How it felt to watch this awesome console fail back in the day (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even in the 70s and 80s they were coming up with cooler names for consoles, like the Magnavox Odyssey and the Intellivision. Atari named a bunch of their consoles after big cats, though they didn't live up to their names. At least there was some imagination.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And yet Atari's most popular console was just numbers, lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Video Computer System" definitely doesn't sound as appealing lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

All three of those were some newfangled words in the 70's.