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"PRE-CRASH systems"?!? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? What a lame term to describe the original game consoles that began what exists today as a healthy gaming industry...These are generation 1 or 2 systems depending on who you ask, and quite honestly I'd have to believe they are generation 1 systems ...(The pre-generation 1 systems can be lumped together as Generation 0 or pre-one) not "pre-crash" systems which include Generation 2 and the beginning of Gen 3 systems (The Atari 7800 was made during the crash but wasn't really released until the NES brought gaming back to life.)

This is a terrible insult to the Atari 2600 & 5200, Mattel Intellivision, and Coleco Colecovision specifically. Sure they are "pre-crash" but they are better known as GENERATION 1 & 2. Pathetic. I don't even care to change this...perhaps another day when I have the time.

"I don't even care to change this". Neither do I. - Diceman 12:03, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Ahh, this brings back memories, wasted a good many hours on this back in the day. Had completely forgotten what they where called though, and had given up on ever finding out, then I stumble across this article quite by accident. Funny that it works. Wonder if I remember enough to imrove on this in any way though... --Sherool (talk) 03:40, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

As is obvious in that above discussion on "generations," dividing the continuum of video games into arbitrary generations or eras is problematic. Thus the use of "video game crash" as a dividing line; it's common shorthand for the quite real market contraction that occurred in the video game industry in 1983. It doesn't denigrate the systems that came before this event, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Even the official Intellivision website refers to the "crash" (though erroneously claiming to be the only system to survive the crash-- what about the 2600?). Anyway... my problem with the article is this bit of ambiguity:

By 1982 sales were soaring. Over two million Intellivision consoles had been sold by the end of the year, earning Mattel a $100,000,000 profit. This was a big year for Mattel. Third party Atari developers Activision, and Imagic began releasing games for the Intellivision, as did hardware rivals Atari and Colecovision. Mattel created M Network branded games for Atari and Coleco's systems. The most popular titles sold over a million units each.

What are the "most popular titles?" The titles released for the Intellivision systems? The titles by M Network for other systems? The total of a title across multiple systems? Student Driver 16:51, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Article For Odyssey 2 Video Game System?

I couldn't find an article on Wikipedia for the Oddessy 2 video game system. I thought it was a step-up from Intellivision, we had both. KC Munchkin was an Oddessy game, a rip off of Pacman, but actually pretty cool. The Oddessy system had a alphabetic keyboard on the top of it. Anyone remember it?

As for Intellivision, right before they went out of business or whatever they did, they were selling games dirt cheap. Games that previously cost $30 - $50 were being sold for $0.99. Yes, less than a buck. I bought a whole bunch of those Intellivision games at that cheap price. Monkeybreath 10:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

See Magnavox Odyssey². Nandesuka 11:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)