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Magnavox Odyssey
Worlds First game console, "The Brown Box" -
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First Gen
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Maze Wars
One of the first FPS games, tile based movement -
Magnavox Odyssey
Played cartriges, "Quest for the Rings" -
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Second Gen
Mid-1970s cartridges moved to CPU-based consoles -
Chuck E Cheese
First family entertainment centers aimed at young children, helped improve the image of video games -
Atari 2600
Popularized game cartridges - popular in the 1980s -
Space Invaders
Created in Japan, later liscensed in the US, responsible for a temporary coin shortage in Japan -
Pac Man
Made by Namco, considered one of the most famous games of all time -
Donkey Kong
By Nintendo, The hero and ape became two of Nintendo's most popular characters -
The Video Game Crash
Caused mainly by the delay of Atari's 7800 console, too many E.T. games caused the downfall of Atari and many other startup game companys, led to the introduction of personal computers like the Commodore 64, and lasted for 2 years. -
Tetris
Tile-matching game from the Soviet Union, for the Commadore 64 and IBM PC -
NES
8-bit console by Nintendo, Most successful of its time sold over 60 million worldwide -
Atari 7800
Replaced Atari 5200, and re-established Atari's supremacy over Nintendo and Sega -
The Legend Of Zelda
Fantasy action-adventure created in Japan and published by Nintendo -
Nintendo's Game Boy
First successful handheld - predecessor of all other Game Boys -
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3rd Gen (Handheld Games)
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Sonic The Hedgehog
By Sega, Successful; increased the popularity of Sega's console and established Sonic the Hedgehog as the company's mascot -
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4th Gen
16-bit era -
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5th Gen
32-bit and 64-bit games -
Sony Playstation
By Sony, 32-bit, First of a series of PS consoles -
Nintendo 64
Nintendo's third home console -
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6th Gen
128-bit era -
Sega Dreamcast
First sixth-generation console, Was hailed as ahead of its time but failed to gather momentum when PS2 was released -
Xbox 360
By Microsoft, after the Xbox -
Nintendos Wii
Fifth home game console by Nintendo. -
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7th Gen
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8th Gen
Increase of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as the major processor