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1972 - Magnavox Odyssey
This was the world's first game console. The prototype known as the "Brown Box is" is now at the Smithsonian, and 340,000 units were sold. -
1976 - Fairchild Channel F
The world's second cartridge-based video game console, after the Magnavox Odyssey and was Sold for $169.95. Originally called Video Entertainment System (VES), but when Atari released VCS, it was renamed. -
Chuck E Cheese’s
First family entertainment centers aimed at young children. Pizza restaurant with arcade games, amusement rides, an animatronics show, climbing equipment, tubes, and slides. -
Magnavox Odyssey
The keyboard is used for educational games, selecting options, or programming. First game was an instant classic: Quest for the Rings! -
Asteroids
Control a spaceship in an asteroid field traversed by flying saucers, and object is to shoot asteroids and saucers while not colliding or being hit by counter-fire. Vector display and 2D view. -
Pac Man
Namco - considered among the most famous arcade games of all time. Became a social phenomenon that sold related merchandise and inspired an animated television series and a top-ten hit single. -
Donkey Kong
Made by Nintendo a platform and you have to move the character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles, rescue a damsel in distress from a giant ape - Donkey Kong. -
Tron
Game was based on the Disney movie and the game is about a computer hacker is trapped inside a digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial-type games. -
Mario Brothers
By Nintendo a platform made a arcade Full color Mario, a Italian-American plumber, and his brother Luigi must defeat creatures from the sewers below New York. -
Tetris
Tile-matching from the Soviet Union and the name is from the Greek numerical prefix tetra four segments. Electronic Gaming Monthly's 100th issue had Tetris in first place as "Greatest Game of All Time“ -
Video Game Crash
The delay of Atari's 7800 console left consumers hungry for the next big thing. A flood of consoles on the US market gave consumers too many choices. Introduction of personal computers like the Commodore 64. -
NES
8-bit console by Nintendo it was the most successful of its time; sold over 60 million worldwide, helped revitalize the US industry following crash of 1984 - set the standard for consoles. First console to play and openly court third-party developers. -
Atari 7800
Replaced Atari 5200, and re-establish Atari's supremacy over Nintendo and Sega Digital joysticks; fully backward compatible with the Atari 2600; and affordable only $140, designed to be upgraded to a home computer -
Nintendo’s Game Boy
8-bit for $89.95, First successful handheld -predecessor of all other Game Boys. Originally bundled with Tetris, sold 118.69 million worldwide. -
Sega Genesis
Supported over 900 games, first 16-bit console to
achieve notable market share - sold 40 million units worldwide. -
Atari Lynx
World's first with a color LCD display by Atari. Advanced features and graphics, and ambidextrous layout. Failed to attract quality third-party developers, and was eventually abandoned. -
TurboExpress
Most advanced of its time and could play games on a credit-card sized device called HuCards. 66 2.6 in. screen, displayed 64 sprites at once, 16 per scanline, in 482 colors from a palette of 512 Had 8 kilobytes of RAM $249.99. Could use as a video monitor. -
Sonic the Hedgehog
Platform by Sega and successful; increased the
popularity of Sega's console and established Sonic the Hedgehog as the company's mascot. Led to subsequent games in Sega's flagship Sonic the Hedgehog series. -
Sony PlayStation
32-bit by Sony and the first of a series of PS consoles first to ship 100 million units, PS2 released in 2000 is best-selling home console to date, has a PlayStation network -
Sega Dreamcast
First sixth-generation console, also a successor to the Sega Saturn as a comeback effort, and Was hailed as ahead of its time but failed to gather momentum when PS2 was released and discontinued in 2001.