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MagnaVox creates the world's first game console, Atari releases it's first console
Mangavox creates mangavox Odyssey
Came before atari pong consoles
Prototype named "Brown Box"
Sold 340,000 units
The atari 2600 was released on september 9th, 1972
First game to gain massive popularity
Led to a sucessful patent and a lawsuit from magnavox -
Maze wars is released, Atari releases Gran Track 10
First Fps game
In maze wars you go around a maze and shoot other players
used tile based movement
Gain points by killing other players and lose points by dying
Gran track 10 is a single player racing game in which the player races against the game clock.
Early diode-based ROM was used to create the game
Most of the controls in this game were all firsts for arcade games. -
Chuck E Cheese's Opens
First family entertainment center for young children
Helped increase number of video game players -
Fairchild channel f is released
It is the worlds second console that uses cartridges, after the magnavox odyssey
Sold for $169.95
Renamed after atari released VCS -
Space invaders is released
Created in japan
You play as a space ship that shoots aliens
Caused a shortage of coins in japan due to how successful it is
Grossed 2 billlion dollars by 1982 -
Intellivision is created
Made by mattel electronics
Sold for 299 dollars
Posed a serious threat to Atari
sold over two million consoles -
Pac-man is released
Namco releases pacman
Became so sucessful that it sold merchandise and a television series
Appealed to both genders, male and female
grossed 2.5 billion by 1990s
Highest brand awareness -
Nintendo releases donkey kong
Get your character over barrels and climb platforms to save a woman in distress
Hero (mario) and the ape (donkey kong) became one of nintendos most sucessful icons
Dominated markets in 1980s -
Video game crash
Occured from 1983-1985
Poor games and too many titles of ET
Started the introduction of personal computers
NES brung back video games -
Mario comes out
Nintendo releases mario brothers, one of their most successful games of all time.
Came in full color -
tetris is Invented
It's a tile matching game in the soviet union
Declared "greatest game of all time" by electronic gaming monthly's
Sold more than 70 miillion copies -
Nintendo saves video games with the release of the NES
8-bit console by nintendo
most successful console of its time
Saved the video game market -
Sega master system and The legend of zelda releases, Atari 7600
Sega releases it's master system to compete with nintendo's NES but fails
The legend of zelda releases and sells 67.93 million copies
created in japan by nintendo
Atari 7600 designed to replace atari 5200
Designed to be upgraded into a home computer -
Nintendo Game Boy, Atari lync both release, Sega Genesis
Nintendo game boy is sold for $89.95
First successful handheld
Sold 118.69 million
Atari lynx is the worlds first color LCD display
Advanced features
Sega genesis supported over 900 games
DIrect competitor to SNES -
Super nintedo releases and sonic also releases
Sonic The hedgehog is released by sega
Increased popularity of Sega's consoles
Super nintendo releases with advanced graphics and sounds
Best selling 16-bit console -
Sony releases the playstation
32-bit console by sony
First of the Ps series
Shipped 100 million consoles
Had a playstation network -
Nintendo 64 is released
Nintendo's third home console
64-bit processor
Released Super mario 64 -
Sega dreamcast is released
First sixth-generation console
Released as a comeback effort
Failed
Discountinued in 2001 -
Sony playstation 2
Best selling console in history
over 8800 game titles
produced for 12 years -
Nintendo game cube, Microsoft xbox
Fourth console made by nintendo
Used disc
Sold 22 million units
Discountinued in 2007
Microsoft releases it's first console
Let players go online
sold for $299.99
Discontinued in 2008 -
Xbox 360
Had problems at launch
Xbox live allows players to compete with other players and download more content
Sold 80 million units -
Nintendo wii and Playstation 3 released
Made by Nintendo for a broader audience
WIi broke sales for a single month in the US
Third console by sony
FIrst to use by the Blu-ray disc
Can output high-definition video for games
