Sorry if this has been posted already but I didn't find it in search

http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Conso...ution-20070103

God do I feel old. The consoles with the fake wood look are hilarious. I vaguely remember those earliest ones.

Not sure of the timelines on the pong-clones, but that Fairchild Channel F should be a lot further up the page -- it's the first programmable cartridge system!

Pretty cool, though.

Wow, that's great. I had one of these: