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I don't think it's fair at all to call this "the worst video game console of all time". This thing was made prior to the home video game industry even existing. You ever played the original Odyssey (the one with the wax paper screen overlays)? It was much worse. Yet it isn't fair to criticize. Because giants were made standing on the shoulders of these early failures.
I played a lot of the RCA games in the store back in the late 70's (precisely, Montgomery Ward's always had several systems out to try). I remember "Freeway", and I thought it was a lot of fun. My comparison back then was the handheld game "Tomy Digital Derby", which I owned and LOVED. This game was a huge improvement.
By today's standards, it's super crude. Atari Street Racer is a ton better. But didn't it come out like a year later?
So in summary, for a kid that had a pong console and a few handheld electronic games, this system looked GOOD back then.
Still, the Coleco Telstar (the one with the triangle shape) was the one I drooled over because of the super cool controls (steering wheel, gun, and paddles). My parents wouldn't buy one sadly. But they did relent when the 2600 came out later.