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My first console was received for Christmas 1980, a brand new Hanimex SD-070 console with the "Supersportic" cartridge.

By that time, this console was already clearly outdated compared to what was available on the market, but these better console had not made it yet to French territory, so as far as we were concerned we were playing with the state of the art of electronic entertainment.

This video explains why this happened, some chronological information, but also some details about how these consoles compared with the much more flexible Atari VCS 2600 system which was released the same year (1977) in the United States.

(Feel free to point out any error or provide additional information, it seems that most of the information is copy-pasted from site to site, so it's hard to find original sources.)

Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
04:13 Pong on a chip
09:00 Atari VCS 2600 hardware design
12:55 Hanimex SD-070 hardware design
15:37 Hanimex SD-070 console and games
19:04 Atari VCS 2600 console and games
23:25 Playing PC-50x games
32:49 PC-506 "Superbwipeout"
36:27 Playing Atari VCS 2600 games
42:09 Galaxian

Documentation and credits:
- https://www.pong-story.com/gi.htm for miscelaneous "Pong on a Chip" information
- Wikipedia for various details, timelines and cross referencing
- https://nerdstuffbycole.blogspot.com/2020/01/end-of-year-update.html for the reverse engineering of the PC-505 submarine game
- Maps from Wikipedia and Geography Facts
- Atari ads from Atari Mania