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PONG
The pong is released. It is a game who recreates the table tennis. Since that moment started the second age. It's considerated the first successful commercial video game of the history. None other video game was able to overcome it. The pong won a lot of money and it promoted depelopers to create new projects. -
ATARI 2600
The first video game succesful console was ATARI 2600, it was recognized for having popularized the use of hardware based on microprocessors with the game code into cartridges. This videogame console belongs to the second generation. The most important videogame of this console was Pac-Man. -
SPACE INVADERS
It is an arcade game created by Tomohiro Nishikado. It was manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and licensed in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. This game has a really big cultural impact. It had grossed $3.8 billion dollars. In this console they began to use random events through algorithms. -
AGE OF 16 BITS
The 80s began with great growth and very great technological advance.The 8 bit age started marking games with story mode, not only with the arcade mode that follows a repetitive pattern.
The most recognized games of this time were Mario Bros, The legend of Zelda and Pac-Man. -
NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Probably, the NES was the most important video game console in the whole history. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced, released, and marketed by Nintendo. It is a remodelled export version of the company's Family Computer. -
SUPER MARIO BROS
In 1985, Mario Bros appeared, the game that established a giant inflation in the videogame industry, since previous games had only one screen, but this game had hundred of maps and a story to follow, they took many copies of this game and it is one of the best-selling games in the history of video-games. -
3D REVOLUTION
At the beginning of 1990, the video game consoles gave a great technical jump, thanks to the category of the 16 bit generation composed of the Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, PC engine.
Next to them, the neo geo also appeared, a console that combines with the technical characteristics of a game room but too expensive to massively reach homes. -
THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CENTURY
In the year 2000, Sony took out the anticipated playstation 2 and sega took out a console with similar characteristics, Microsoft entered the industry presenting the Xbox-360, starting with online games.
Sega seeing that he could not compete, announced that he would no longer produce hardware, only software (video games) -
PS4
The PlayStation 4 (officially abbreviated as PS4) is an eighth-generation home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15 in North America, November 29 in Europe, South America and Australia, and on February 22, 2014, in Japan. It's the 4th best-selling console of all time. It competes with Microsoft's Xbox One and Nintendo's Wii U and Switch. -
XBOX-ONE
Xbox One is the third desktop video console of the Xbox brand, produced by Microsoft. It is part of the eighth generation video game consoles, it was presented by Microsoft on May 21, 2013. It is the successor of the Xbox 360 and the predecessor of the Xbox Series X currently competing with Sony PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Nintendo Switch.
