I think the only neighborhood console I had early on was the 2600 and at that time it didn't quite impress me. Plus it was Pac man on there. Oddly I could tell the differenece between the arcade andt eh home consoles at that time. The differecnes seemed pretty obvious to me, yet others didn't seem to mind. If antying the home consoles had better controls in my opnion. I couldn't get no-where on the arcade asteroids game but did very well on consoles.