Even in the 70s and 80s they were coming up with cooler names for consoles, like the Magnavox Odyssey and the Intellivision. Atari named a bunch of their consoles after big cats, though they didn't live up to their names. At least there was some imagination.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And yet Atari's most popular console was just numbers, lol

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Video Computer System" definitely doesn't sound as appealing lol

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

All three of those were some newfangled words in the 70's.