History Of Game Consoles

By IssacRudd

  • First Generation

    First Generation
    The Magnavox Odyssey was the first home video game console that started it all, it was released in 1972, The Odyssey could be plugged into any TV and included in it was a range of games the most popular and what most would view as the most iconic is Table Tennis which was basically a copy of Atari's Pong which was only available in arcades at the time.

  • Second Generation

    Second Generation
    The release of the Fairchild Channel F in 1977 signaled the start of the second generation of home video game consoles, But it was the release of The Atari 2600 that truly propelled home video game consoles into the mainstream, The Atari 2600 was a huge success it was on sale for $199 USD at the time of its release which means it in modern NZD it would be $1170 making it quite an expensive but lucrative it was a widely popular console but crashed in the early 80s.

  • Third Generation

    Third Generation
    The third generation of consoles was in 1983 with the release of the Famicom or Family Computer in Japan it was a great success and a technological leap forward the sales of the FamiCom/NES doubled the sales of the Atari 2600 with 61 million FamiCom/NES units being sold

  • Fourth Generation

    Fourth Generation
    The release of the Sega Genesis heralded a new age of video game consoles the Sega Genesis, The Sega Genesis was one of the first consoles to have the ability to render in 3D marking a historic point in video game history games were no longer confined to two dimensions. The Sega Genesis also gained much controversy around the game Mortal Kombat which is a fighting game that contains lots of gore and violence and country's around the world enacted legislation to rate video games to age groups.

  • Fifth Generation

    Fifth Generation
    The release of The PlayStation in 1994 marked a new generation of video game consoles video games had gained another dimension of play no longer where they stuck in 2D poorly pixilated worlds, now games could be played in 3D with much better graphics than previous generations

  • Sixth Generation

    Sixth Generation
    The Release of the PlayStation 2 in 2000, The Nintendo GameCube in 2001 then the Xbox in 2002 signaled a new generation of home video game consoles just as previous generations the graphics got better, the worlds were bigger and the games ran better.

  • Seventh Generation

    Seventh Generation
    The release of the Xbox 360 in 2005 and later with the Playstation 3 and Wii in 2006 signaled a new generation in video game console the consoles brought another wave of great graphics to the mainstream and the Nintendo Wii took gaming off the couch and got people moving with its games requiring people to move around with the help of sensors. Many upgrades over time in the consoles allowed to the generation to span from 2005 to 2017.

  • Eighth Generation

    Eighth Generation
    The release of the PlayStation 4 in 2013 along with the release of the Xbox one in the same year and the Nintendo switch in 2017 signaled a new era of home video game consoles with updated versions of the consoles they became able to play video and games in 4K double the amount of pixels in normal movies and games and it also play them at 60 frames per second compared to the usual console 30 frames per second.