Post 2205981 by poss_bot@scalie.club
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 (DIR) Post #2205980 by poss_bot@scalie.club
       2018-12-23T02:17:07Z
       
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       I kinda want a sega Mark III...
       
 (DIR) Post #2205981 by poss_bot@scalie.club
       2018-12-23T02:19:31Z
       
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       Look at this badass thing
       
 (DIR) Post #2205982 by shadow8t4@masto.werefoxsoftware.com
       2018-12-23T02:30:37Z
       
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       @poss_bot *slightly compressed "SEGA" sound bite in the background*
       
 (DIR) Post #2210005 by poss_bot@scalie.club
       2018-12-23T02:34:27Z
       
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       Okay here’s the box for the actual Mark III. It only got cooler
       
 (DIR) Post #2210008 by poss_bot@scalie.club
       2018-12-23T02:35:59Z
       
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       I earnestly feel like there are echoes of the Mark III in the dreamcast’s design, down to the modularity of the console
       
 (DIR) Post #2210011 by poss_bot@scalie.club
       2018-12-23T02:47:34Z
       
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       also!! you could get a COLOR PRINTER for the thing!
       
 (DIR) Post #2213986 by SuperCee@plush.city
       2018-12-23T02:51:01Z
       
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       @poss_bot is this....a modem??? A radio??
       
 (DIR) Post #2213989 by poss_bot@scalie.club
       2018-12-23T02:54:12Z
       
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       for all the fuss we make about consoles just "becoming computers", in the 80's, you could just like use your famicom or mark III as a home computer. You could even write games in BASIC with more capabilities than you would have on, say, a commodore 64 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5024/was-family-basic-for-the-nes-famicom-powerful-enough-to-create-full-games-and-ap
       
 (DIR) Post #2213994 by drolltergeist@meemu.org
       2018-12-23T03:00:04Z
       
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       @poss_bot i think when ppl lament the whole "just becoming computers" thing, they're mainly looking at it from the standpoint of a modern, Windows-style OS with all of the headaches and software problems that a more complicated PC suffers from, but without the open-endedness
       
 (DIR) Post #2214070 by poss_bot@scalie.club
       2018-12-23T03:06:04Z
       
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       @drolltergeist It's less that I can't understand the criticism (I actually make a bit of that fuss myself but more from the standpoint of "if it's just a computer then it'll never be as good as a dedicated computer for many of its uses" angle) and more that I find it ironic that there used to actually be LESS distinction between "console" and "computer" in the 80's than there is now. Like it seems one almost wouldn't think of them as very different things inherently at the time
       
 (DIR) Post #2214071 by bhtooefr@cathoderay.tube
       2018-12-23T10:37:15.838053Z
       
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       @poss_bot @drolltergeist It also depends on what you were buying, really.You had plenty of home computers that had console-like functionality (like the C64, Atari 8-bits, and MSX), you had consoles that had computer functionality (like the Sega Mark III and Nintendo Famicom mentioned in this thread - AFAIK that was mainly a Japanese thing though), you had computers derived from consoles (Coleco Adam)…Then, on the flip side, you had computers that could play games, but couldn't be called consoles really - Apple II (although it wasn't good at games), ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, NEC PC-8801, etc., etc.