{"id":1531,"date":"2008-02-20T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2008-08-16T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T20:50:30","slug":"dawn-of-console-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of Console Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had always thought that home console gaming began with Pong, went mainstream with the Atari 2600, and exploded with the NES. This turns out to be a very simplified picture of what really happened, and leaves out dozens<\/i> of noteworthy devices that are barely remembered today. The first console came out in 1972, the year after I was born. I find this interesting because I never heard of them until I was about 7, and didn’t get my hands on one until I was 10.<\/p>\n

This history of console gaming<\/a> covers the evolution of the hobby from 1972 to present day, with pictures of all the machines, most of which I’ve never even seen. I think the author is a bit soft on the Atari Jaguar, and the consoles of the 90’s all could use a little more context, but it’s still a tremendous article. It was informative to the point of being educational<\/i>, and the pictures of the 70’s era console machines reveal a series of long-forgotten devices which were hilarious in their crude awfulness and cringe-worthy design aesthetic. <\/p>\n

Warning: The site is orange. I don’t know why it’s orange. I am sorry that it is so. I would not send you there if I didn’t think information was worth the optical assult. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had always thought that home console gaming began with Pong, went mainstream with the Atari 2600, and exploded with the NES. This turns out to be a very simplified picture of what really happened, and leaves out dozens of noteworthy devices that are barely remembered today. The first console came out in 1972, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}