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Atari 2600
The Atari 2600, released in 1977, was the console most responsible for popularizing the use of interchangeable game cartridges in home video game systems, and it became the dominant gaming platform of the early home console era, selling millions of units and hundreds of licensed games. The console's 1983 involvement in the North American video game industry crash, driven partly by an oversaturated market of low-quality licensed games (most infamously "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"), became one of the most studied cautionary tales in the entire history of the gaming industry. Despite that crash, the Atari 2600's library, including genre-defining early games like "Pitfall!" and "Space Invaders," helped establish home video gaming as a mainstream household activity years before Nintendo's subsequent 1985 revival of the American console market. The Atari 2600's combination of pioneering the cartridge-based home console format and its central role in both the industry's early boom and its historic 1983 crash has made it one of the most historically significant consoles ever released.
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The PlayStation 2, released by Sony in 2000, became the best-selling video game console of all time with over 155 million units sold, a record that remains unbroken more than two decades later, built on its built-in DVD playback that made it a genuine living-room multimedia hub beyond just gaming. Its enormous game library, exceeding 3,800 titles across its long production run through 2013, gave it a breadth of content that few subsequent consoles have matched, spanning nearly every genre and appealing to an unusually wide range of players. The console's backward compatibility with original PlayStation games and its role bridging the transition from the original PlayStation's cultural breakthrough to the modern console era cemented Sony's position as a dominant force in gaming for the following generation. The PlayStation 2's combination of its unmatched sales record and its massive, genre-spanning game library has made it the most commercially successful video game console ever released.
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