COMPUTER GAME GENERATIONS

Brown Box

Jan 1, 1967

first generation [Magnavox Odyssey

May 1, 1972

This was similar to Brown Box and it was the first commercial game console, it uses a removable circuit card that inserts into slot like a cartridge. Some of the games played on magnavox Odyssey are: Dogfight, Hockey, Tennis, Wipeout and Brain wave.

Pong

Oct 14, 1975

This was designed by the atari engineer Harold Lee who came up with an idea of a home Pong.

Fairchild Channel F

Aug 17, 1976

This was released in August 1976, the controllers of this console were able to be moved from the base unit and it was the firs console to use microprocessor

hardware.

second generation [Atari VCS]

Oct 1, 1977

Atari VCS also known as Atari 2600.
These were CPU based consoles consist of microprocessor that reads the carteidge memory and ran any progrm on them. Atari was the most popular console of the second generation, the best selling game played on Atari is Pacman.

Intellivision

Oct 14, 1980

This was released by Mattel, this console had better graphics and sound than Atari.
Over three million consoles were released in its ten years of run.

Video game crash

Jan 1, 1983

This happened in North America in 1983. the main reason for video crash was that, video
game manufactures released dozens of consoles and hundreds of low-quality games, because of this overproduction and lost of consumers interest the companies went bankrupt however the Nintendo company released NES in 1985 which ended the crash.

Nintendo entertainment system [NES]

Oct 17, 1983

This was also called Famicon in Japan, this game console helped game industry to recover after the game crash, NES laid foundation for how video games are marketed.

Sega mega drive/ Genesis

Oct 29, 1988

SEGA use to develop games for other console then they decided to make a game console of their own, there first game console was sega master system which flopped in USA, then they released the Sega mega drive in Japan on 29th October 1988 and on 30th November 1990,at this time this was the fastest console, some of the popular game s played on this console are Sonic the hedgehog and EA sports titles.

Game Boy

Apr 21, 1989

This was the major handheld console,game boy has a black and white LCD screen, this console was released on 21 april 1989 in Japan and in Europe in 1990.

NEO-GEO

Jan 1, 1990

This was released in Japan in 1990,this console had 2D
graphics and high quality sound however sreen resolution
were slightly lower which made the game visuals darker than other games.

Supernes

Nov 21, 1991

This game was released on 21-11-1990 in Japan as Super Family Computer,then it was released in Europe on 11th april 1992,Supernes became the most popular console of
the 16 bit-era.

Plastation 1

Dec 3, 1994

This console was designed by Sony Computer Entertainment, it was released in Japan on 3-12-1994 and in Europe in 1995 on 29th September, this was the first console to sell over 100 million consoles.

Nintendo 64

Jun 23, 1996

This was released in Japan on 23-06-1996, it has a memory

expansion pack, one of the popular games played on this console is Super Mario.

Playstation 2

Mar 4, 2000

This was a PS1 successor, PS2 was first released in japan, it was relesed in europe 24th november 2000, this console has an internal harddrive.

Game Boy Advance

Jan 1, 2001

This was the advance of the game boy.

Xbox

Sep 14, 2001

This was released by Microsoft corporation, this was there first console and it competed with PS2, the most popular game played on this console is halo.

Nintendo Game Cube

Sep 14, 2001

It was released by Nintendo on 14-09-2001 in Japan

Nintendo DS

Nov 21, 2004

PSP

Dec 12, 2004

This was first released in North america by the Sony.

Xbox 360

Nov 22, 2005

PS3

Nov 11, 2006

Nintedo wii

Nov 19, 2006