History of Consoles.

  • Galaxy Game

    Galaxy Game
    Galazy game is the earliest known coin-operated computer or video game. The game wasn't sold commercially and was located in Stanford University.
  • Magnavox Odyssey

    Magnavox Odyssey
    The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console. The Odyssey consists of a white, black, and brown box which connects to a television set and two rectangular controllers attached by wires. It is capable of displaying three square dots on the screen in monochrome black and white, with different behavior of the dots depending on the game played, and has no sound capabilities.
  • Pong

    Pong
    Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games and the very first sports arcade video game. It is a table tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat an opponent in a simulated table-tennis game by earning a higher score.
  • Space Invaders

    Space Invaders
    Space Invaders is an arcade video game released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to defeat waves of aliens with a laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.
  • Asteriods

    Asteriods
    Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979[1] by Atari, Inc. and designed by Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, and Dominic Walsh. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire. The game becomes harder as the number of asteroids increases.
  • Pac-Man

    Pac-Man
    Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980.Pac-Man is often credited with being a landmark in video game history, and is among the most famous arcade games of all time.
  • Nintendo Entertainment System

    Nintendo Entertainment System
    The Nintendo Entertainment System is a Nintendo console that is considered the successor to Nintendo's Color TV Game series, and is Nintendo's first home console with interchangeable cartridges. It is an 8-bit console that introduced various franchises to the world from The Legend of Zelda to Final Fantasy.
  • GameBoy

    GameBoy
    Nintendo released the Game Boy in Japan on April 21st, 1989, in North America in July 1989 and in Europe on September 28, 1990. It is the second handheld system released by Nintendo; with the Game & Watch line being introduced in 1980. The Game Boy has features that combine both the Nintendo Entertainment System and their Game & Watch line, and in total sold more than 118 million systems worldwide.
  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System

    Super Nintendo Entertainment System
    The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America. In Japan, the system is called the Super Famicom.
  • PlayStation

    PlayStation
    The original PlayStation, released on December 3, 1994, was the first of the ubiquitous PlayStation series of console and hand-held game devices. It has included successor consoles and upgrades including the Net Yaroze
  • Nintendo 64

    Nintendo 64
    The Nintendo 64, stylized as NINTENDO64 and often referred to as N64, is Nintendo's third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit central processing unit, it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, March 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil.
  • PlayStation 2

    PlayStation 2
    Released in 2000, 15 months after the Dreamcast and a year before its other competitors, the Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube, the PlayStation 2 is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles, and is backwards-compatible with most original PlayStation games.
  • Xbox

    Xbox
    The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market. As part of the sixth-generation of gaming, the Xbox competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and Nintendo's GameCube. The Xbox was the first console offered by an American company after the Atari Jaguar stopped sales in 1996.
  • Nintendo DS

    Nintendo DS
    The Nintendo DS line of handheld game consoles was developed and sold by Nintendo from 2004–2014. It succeeded the Game Boy Advance family and was succeeded by the Nintendo 3DS family in 2011.
  • Xbox 360

    Xbox 360
    The Xbox 360 was released as the successor of the original Xbox in November 2005, competing with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. As of June 30, 2013, 78.2 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide.
  • PlayStation 3

    PlayStation 3
    Released on November 17, 2006 in North America, the PlayStation 3 is a seventh generation game console from Sony. It competes with the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The PS3 is the first console in the series to introduce the use of motion-sensing technology through its Sixaxis wireless controller. The console also incorporates a Blu-ray Disc player and features high-definition resolution.
  • PlayStation Move

    PlayStation Move
  • Xbox Kinect

    Xbox Kinect
    Kinect is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands
  • PlayStation 4

    PlayStation 4
    The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is the latest video game console from Sony Computer Entertainment announced at a press conference on February 20, 2013. In the meeting, Sony revealed some hardware specifications of the new console.
  • Xbox One

    Xbox One
    The Xbox One was released on November 22, 2013 in North America, as the successor of the Xbox 360. The Xbox One competes with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles.