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Console generation 2 · 1977–1980

Who won the second console generation?

Atari 2600 won it, outselling Intellivision by 26.2 million units — 700% more hardware. Across all 2 machines the generation sold 33.8 million units, and games released on them collected 0 Game of the Year awards in our database.

  • 30.0MAtari 2600
  • 33.8MGeneration total
  • 2Machines
  • 0GOTY awards on them

Every machine in generation 2

ConsoleMaker ReleasedUnits GOTY awards on it
Atari 2600Atari197730.00M0
IntellivisionMattel19803.75M0
The award column double-counts on purpose.

A game that shipped on three machines of this generation is counted for all three, because the question is how much award-winning software each box could play — not which console had it exclusively.