Re: game consoles
By: Nightfox to Arelor on Mon Dec 15 2025 09:48 am
> I often felt like consoles were simplified computers, at least in the early
> days of consoles.. though in the 80s, consoles often had better graphics &
> sound capabilities than desktop computers did.
>
The really early consoles (think 2nd generation and before) didn't feel like com
puters at all. 1st generation were wired logic toys.
Onwards... they were computers in a sense, but they weren't user programable (at
least on purpose). They were machines into which you inserted your "toy of the
day" to have fun with and it pretty much worked out of the gate, as opposed to P
C games (in which you had to configure your hardware, or have the proper accesso
ries or proper memory extensions or whatever).
Later machines (think 7th generation aka PS3 and onward) are designed to run app
lications from vendors, feature networking as a basic characteristic, and no lon
ger work as a fire and forget solution. This is, playing games in some consoles
takes more than inserting a cartridge in them and powering the console on.
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