1st May 2013, 5:16 AM
That does seem rather silly. To this day though, I have a hard time seeing things like stand alone Pong and The Odyssey as the "first generation" of home consoles. They really seem like their own separate entities, a whole different beast from the generalized consoles that came later. That's just me though. I had Tiger Electronics handhelds, but have a hard time considering them the "first generation" portables too.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)