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Hope the Atari VCS is included for being contemporary with the C64 and the VIC-20 their entire lifetime.

I think it is also distinguished by having switches on the console like the Altair which is a home computer, and being called a Video Computer System.  It's from an earlier era so perhaps it could go either way. 

I hear what you are saying but generally it is classed as a console, that being said we will be doing console comps soon.

Cool looking forward to the console comps - probably not to many Tape game entries for other consoles, well except the Bally Home Computer :)

I consider both of those more real computers than the C64 btw; that was just a game machine with an awesome music chip because that's how it was generally used; I wrote software for it too but I'm a programmer, and no serious applications.

All three are real computers, but with the C64 very few people that had one did anything other than play games while a much higher ratio of Atari Video Computer System Programmers actually learned how to program - check out the examples in this IDE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhAj0XXuxVU

In part this is because Atari BASIC Programming was well marketed and the Video Computer System presented as a multi-purpose device while the C64 was increasingly marketed as a console.

Based on actual usage, the C64 could be considered a console with a keyboard. So many people used it like that it was re-released as a console but it flopped because it was a console that needed a keyboard -  I think the C64 should be allowed in console comps with it's keyboard.   

I do have an original Beat 'em up on Tape for the TRS-80 CoCo; it was published in the 80's but is now free to share, it's a Military sim with a cool Tape loader! :)

Can I enter it?