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Magnavox Odyssey
First home video console this used game cards that altered the electronics this console came with 12 circuit cards that did not contain any programs just alter the signal path this ran on a battery and was later introduced to a dc adapter that would run on the main power the magnavox odyssey had a processor called AY-3-8500 -
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History of Computer Games Platforms
The History -
Space invaders Release
Space invaders is a Japanese created game designed and released in 1978 by Tomohiro Nishikado -
Asteroids Game
This game was released in the arcades in 1979 and had a console version in the next few years -
Consoles for Asteroids
Asteroids was later also released for the Atari 2600 8 - Bit in 1981 -
Tempest
The tempest is a video game from the 1981 and was issued to arcades untill 1985 when the spectrum was released -
Atari
Atari have purchased a license agreement to port pacman to a Atari 2600 this ruined Atari reputation because of the bad quality -
Atari 7800 Pro
The atari 7800 pro was the first system introduced by atari inc and designed by an outside company this was one of the systems that was able to run asteroids -
Game Releases in 1986
Arcade
Sky Kid Deluxe - Namco
Wonder-boy - Saga -
Family Computer Disk System
The device is connected to the famicom deck by plugging a special cartridge known as the ram adapter into the system's cartridge port, and attaching that cartridge's cable to the disk drive the ram adapter contains 32kb of ram for temporary program storage 8kb of ram for tile and sprite data storage -
PC capable games
games starting from 1993 started to become capable with gaming on the computer's of that time like lemmings -
Mosaic
This was a browser released back in 1993 to start the movement of the internet providing people with the resources to start online gaming -
1993 Online Gaming
SEGA Nintendo and Atari have attempted to setup online gaming but network providers dont see an investment as the cables are slow it wasn't until the Sega Dream Cast the dream cast arrived with a 56 Kbps modem and a copy of the latest planetweb browser making Internet-based gaming a core part of its setup HOWEVER this was a massive downfall as searching the internet was very expensive and ract up very large amounts of bills -
Play Station Original
the play station original had a laser disk for running games and was the newest console it had a memory card as storage to store saved files and had 2MB of ram and a R3000 as a cpu and was discontinued in 2006 -
Play Station 2
The play station two has 2 different models the original and the slim they were both the same just one was a lot more smaller the PlayStation was first released in 2000 and was discontinued in 2012 these were also issues with wireless controllers they used disks and contained a disk reader to read games there CPU was custom built by Sony and Toshiba and was called the Emotion Engine this ran with 32MB of RDRAM 4MB of DRAM and 40GB disk space or you would have to buy a memory card -
First phone with a game introduced
The Nokia 8210 was introduced with the game called snake -
Play Station 3
The play station 3 came in 3 different sizes the original the skim and the super slim
original was releases 2006
slim in 2009
super slim in 2012
the specifications for this console was included a blue-ray player and Bluetooth functions
this used a CPU called the Cell Broadband Engine and had 256MB XDR DRAM
and 256MB GDDR3 video ram and most contained 500 or less storage drives -
First Released iPhone
The first released iPhone was the first generation and had a touch screen this was the first device that apply had made with the iPhone brand and this was capable of running YouTube and even having a internet browser this had a built in appstore where you can download gaming apps from to play when you were bored -
The Tablet
The iPad officially released in 2010 was an upgrade from the iPhone which was becoming very old and needing a replacement this had an app store and improved memory and had Bluetooth -
Apple TV
The apple TV was the first box invented to be able to use the television to stream to this was also used to game on like for example mine-craft was released onto the apple tv but due to profit issues it was removed -
Oculus Rift
The Oculus rift is a VR headset used in gaming to be in the characters POV this was released in 2016 -
GeForce 20
is the newest graphics card on the market and are very expensive to purchase
