Gaming Consoles

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  • Pong Home System

    Pong Home System
    Atari releases a home version of the game "PONG"

  • Magnavox vs Atari

    Magnavox vs Atari
    Mangnavox files lawsuit against Atari for infringement of the game "PONG"

  • Settlement Reahed

    Settlement Reahed
    Magnavox and Atari reach agreement for Magnavox
    liceence for $700,000

  • Atari 2600

    Atari 2600
    It was originally called Atari VCS before 1982

  • Pac Man

    Pac Man
    Was Atari's best selling game of all time

  • ACTIVISION

    ACTIVISION
    Workers of Atari grew angry for not being credited for their work
    so they left and started their own company called Activision in 1980

  • Sega Master System

    Sega Master System
    Was named Mark 3 in Japan in 1985, but was redesigned was named Master System and sold in NA in 1986

  • Sega Genisis

    Sega Genisis
    Sega creates another console to follow up the Master System

  • Gameboy

    Gameboy
    Was released in Japan in April 1989 and in NA in July of 1989

  • Sold Out

    Sold Out
    When the Gameboy was released in Japan it was sold at 12500 yen, equal to about 122 USD. It was imminently sold out selling 30,000 units

  • Pokemon

    Pokemon
    When pokemon was released it made over millions of dollars the week it was released

  • Sonic saves SEGA

    Sonic saves SEGA
    Facing Bankruptcy SEGA makes one last game which basically gave the company another chance in the industry, the gme was called Sonic

  • Super NES

    Super NES
    The official release worldwide was in 1992

  • Great Success

    Great Success
    The SNES became a global success becoming the best console at the time

  • Playstation

    Playstation
    Was released Dec, 03 1994

  • Discontinued

    Discontinued
    SNES was discontinued in 1995

  • XBOX

    XBOX
    XBOX was released in Nov, 15 2001

  • Halo made Xbox successful

    Halo made Xbox successful
    Halo was XBOX's first game launched and it sold over 46 million copies worldwide

  • LIVE

    LIVE
    One of XBOX biggest feature was the online server

  • Big Success

    Big Success
    PS1 sold 102 million copies before being discontinued

  • Sold till

    Sold till
    PlayStation 1 was sold until 2006

  • XBOX 360

    XBOX 360
    It was released in Nov, 22 2005

  • halo 3

    halo 3
    Like Halo Combat Evolved Halo 3 was the first game launched with the 360 and it was a instant hit

  • wow

    wow
    As of 2010 Microsoft had sold over 84 million copies

  • One

    One
    Xbox one was released on Nov 22, 2013

  • Halo 5

    Halo 5
    Halo latest installment was released on October 27, 2015

  • One S

    One S
    The new and improved Xbox one S has no release date