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HISTORY Most of the earliest home video game systems were dedicated consoles, most popularly Pong and its many imitators. By the end of the 1970's cartridge based systems had risen to prominence, and continued their lead until CD-based systems gained prominence in the mid to late 1990's. HUNTING AND FISHING GAMES Dedicated consoles have appeared for fishing games, with controllers in the form of a Rod And Reel . Other dedicated consoles have been released with light guns, for hunting, shooting, and even archery games. PLUG AND PLAY Most modern dedicated home game systems are popularly referred to as "). Konami has also released a line of their classic arcade games, including Frogger , on "plug and play" dedicated systems. The Pelican VG Pocket was an attempt to make a TV game with a backlit Color LCD . Dedicated consoles and handheld electronic games with LCD screens that only have one game are rather distinct devices, but the release of the Pelican VG Pocket has blurred the categorization between the 2. POPULARITY Dedicated systems have appeal, especially as they often have several games on one system for less than the cost of a single game for a popular console system, the popular system itself costing many times as much, which makes the dedicated console far more economical to purchase. These games suffer in reputation, however, as Quality Control is often thought not to be as high as it ought to be. NEW OLD SYSTEMS In Brazil, Tec Toy , the Brazilian Sega distributor, has rereleased the Sega Master System with numerous games built in. These are not strictly-speaking, dedicated consoles, however, as they also support cartridge-based games. In the United States, a miniaturized version of the Atari home consoles has been released. It is a dedicated console, having no cartridge support, and is actually based on a clone of the NES hardware, but running Atari software. A newer version, Atari Flashback 2 , is based on actual Atari hardware, and includes some new games developed by modern hobbyist Atari 2600 programmers, as well as old favorite games. It is reported that, while the new console has no cartridge slot, it is designed such that a knowledgeable person can add one. |
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