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Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ (lemmy.world)
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[–] Redkey@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

They probably did. It's not exactly honest, but the system is technically outputting a colour signal, and it was released at a time when that wasn't a given. They didn't say "full colour" anywhere on the box, did they?

Let's call it a mix of lower expectations for the time, and a bit of marketing deception.