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I never really know how much of my experience is colored by the games I had and did not have in my childhood, but the difference between the 2nd gen and 3rd gen is like... the difference between "proto-video games" and "video games." Playing most Atari games now is like - I don't feel like I'm playing a game, I feel like I'm fucking around with a prototype of something that could be cool later. When I play NES games I feel like I'm just playing video games. Of course, for a lot of people the NES feels as dated as the Atari now (and I dread the idea that even the SNES/Genesis is dated to some people) but to me the 3rd generation is the beginning of modern console games.