Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/

41 years ago in September, Atari released the VCS (later Atari 2600). Like no other gizmo, this console was to open up a gigantic market for video games, and thus usher in the era of subsequent 8-bit home computers that we all feel so much love for. 😍

Tekla S. Perry and Paul Wallich have teamed up, and peppered the console's origin story with lots of background information.

The result can be read on spectrum.ieee.org, is absolutely excellently researched and requires some reading time. So nothing for a quick look. But everything for a long train ride home.