01 ATARI 2600
The Fairchild Channel F holds the ‘first cartridge console’ crown, but Atari took the idea and ran with it… fast.
Like the Channel F, the 2600 (launched as the Atari VCS) saw carts as an answer to the poor clones of the Pong machine that were flooding the market. The difference was, Atari had good games.
In fact, it had more than that. Instead of Fairchild’s weird controllers,
