The Atari 2600, originally called the Atari VCS, played a significant role in making video games popular. Despite being blamed for the video game crash of 1983, it introduced games like Combat that brought joy to players in 1977. Today, it stands as a milestone in video game history.
These days, internet historians will enthusiastically explain how the 2600 (or the Atari VCS, as it was originally called) was responsible for the video game crash of 1983 and almost brought the entire hobby to its knees until Putting aside the fact that this take is extremely America-centric – Japan didn’t have a crash and Europe was doing just fine with the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, thanks very much – it also overshadows the fact that the Atari 2600 played a huge part in making video games popular in the first place.
It’s now been 46 years since the console was first released, and it stands as the video game equivalent of the Lumière brothers’ early movies. Just as audience members in 1896 shrieked in terror at the sight of a giant train pulling up in front of them, so too did players in 1977 whoop with joy at Combat, its bundled two-player tank game. Place either work in front of today’s generation and they’ll wonder what all the fuss wa
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