Game Consoles

History of Game Consoles

Period: Jan 1, 1970 to Dec 31, 2010

First Home Video Game

Sep 10, 1972

It was called the "Magnavox Odyssey", created by Magnavox. This video game was able to connect to the TV.

Farchild Channel F

Nov 17, 1976

This was a game console which was released by the Fairchild Semiconductor at the price of $169.59 in the United States. This was the first game which used a microprocesser.

Nintendo Color TV Game

Jan 17, 1977

This product had 5 different series to it. It was developed at released in Japan only. The first 2 models sold over a million while the other 2 models only sold half a million.

Atari 2600 (VCS)

Oct 1, 1977

This game was created by Atari Inc. The game is named after him. This was sold for $199.00 with a librabry of 9 tittles. After this was released for a while, they created a more advanced one which is called Atari 5200.

Family Computer (Famicom)

Jan 17, 1983

This video game had a high-resolution but it also had a lot more colors. This allowed the games to last longer.

Nintendo NES

Oct 18, 1985

This is a game which was released by the company we all know "Nitendo". Masyayuki Uemura designed the system and it is from Japan.

Sega Genesis

Aug 14, 1989

This is a 16-bit video game console. It was released by Sega in Japan. It later on got released in America, Europe, Brazil. The units sold was estimated from 37.4 to over 41.9 million.

Sony PlayStation

Sep 1, 1995

This is a video game which was made by Sony, but they ask Sony for some help.

Nintendo 64

Sep 29, 1996

Nintendo 64 is the company's 3rd home computer game console. Nintendo 64 was released on JUne 23, 1996 in Japan. It was released later on to the world.

Sony PlayStation 2 (SCPH-5000x)

Oct 1, 2000

This was a very popular game console item. When it got released, so many people wanted it that they didn't have enough money to manufacture enough. Some people bought it off the internet at the end.

Nintendo Game Cube

Sep 14, 2001

This game was first released in japan in 2001 and in the America it was released in 2001 also.

Wii

Nov 19, 2006

This game is in the seventh-generation game console. The developer for this was the Nintendo.

Sega Zones

Jul 1, 2010

This game was released around summer. It is released by the licesne under Sega. It had a 20 built in game in it.