Atari 2600
Nintendo NES
Sega Master System
All these things are heralded as milestones in the world of gaming and yet for their praises and glories, one of them actually doesn't belong.
There is a tendency of the west to only see things in their immediate world, ignoring everything else that happens outside of their bubble and so it is true here.
Yes, it is true that the Nintendo NES was the landmark games console it is forgotten, more often not known, that the NES was a repackaged version of the, at time of the launch, 2 year old Nintendo Famicom.
While the Asian market machine was blessed with such things like an external floppy disc drive, a modem to connect to Nintendo servers, all the NES got were different game controllers. They also had a built in microphone on the second controller for use with some games. Sure it doesn't look as good as the NES (in all it's 1980s PC grey/beige box style) but it was where it mattered the most, the same.
So what is this post about really?
For one thing, it is a reminder that not everything people say is true. Indeed, it is possible that what most people say is actually false; not intentionally a lie but just misinformation that is never corrected.
The point?
Not a lot really; just that when-ever someone says that the NES was the first, just remind them that it wasn't, it was more like a version 1.5.
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