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Originally Posted by Mutt
No I'm afraid you're the idiot. Those consoles did suck. The first system that didn't suck was Nintendo. That those consoles evolved into Nintendo, Sega, Xbox, Playstation doesn't matter, at the time they sucked, there was no 'wow', I didn't get an Intellivision and do handstands. And the Internet in the early 90's was newsgroups read with Pine, World Wide Web an empty parking lot of boring text and a few images, email, and email who - none of your friends or family had it. it was a borefest. Now it's a 'wow'.
There is no relativity when it comes to 'wow' - rubbing two rocks together and seeing sparks, that i'm sure was a 'wow' moment one million years ago. it either is or isn't.
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So how far do we take that? The alpha and beta stages of Nintendo were a 'borefest'. The shit didn't work, the sound was off sync and the graphics had huge glitches. Just because it's in the public eye doesn't mean it doesn't develop in the exact same way as things that are.
The internet was the Brown Box and Atari of the early consoles. Sure, the Nintendo was 'good' and it has sold more units than any other console on the planet, but was it much of an upgrade from Intellivision? Please.