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Magnavox odyssey and Atari start of the first generation
-World's first game console
-Predates the Atari Pong home consoles
-prototype known as the "Brown Box" is now at the smithsonian
-340,000 units sold
Atari First console "Pong"
- A coin op arcade game by Atari Inc
- Based on table tennis
- First game to gain widespread popularity, launched the industry boom
- led to a successful patent infrigement lawsuit from the Magnavox odyssey -
Atari's First Racing game "Gran Track 10" Maze war games PC
- A singleplayer racing arcade game by Atari -Player races against the game clock, accumulating points Early diode-based ROM was used
- Controls, steering wheel, shifter, accelerator, and brake pedals were all first for arcade gaems Maze Wars -One of the first fps
- Players wander in a maze -Used tile based movement -Other players are eyeballs that can not be shot or harmed -Players gain points for shooting other players and lose them for being shot
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Dedicated Console " APF TV Fun"
-Pong clone manufactured by APF formally a electronics developer
- Four built in games ( Tennis, Hockey, Single Handball, and Squash)
-Had a speaker and controller knobs
-Powered by AC batteries
-Limited success -
Farichild Channel F
-Worlds second cartridge badsed video game console
-Sold for $169.95
-Originally called video entertainment system (VES), but when the atari released VCS it was renamed -
Atari 2600 releases Start of the second generation
-Popularized game cartridges mainly popular in the 80s
-Orginally Atari VCS later changed to atari 2600 in 1983 after the relese of Atari 5200
-Two joystickis, two paddle conrollers, and a catridge game -
Space Invaders
Grosssed 2 billion worldwide by 1982
-Pixilated alien has become a pop culture icon, often used as a symbol representing video games as a whole -
Intellivision
First to pose a serious threat to Atari
By 1982 over two million had been sold, earning Mattel a $100,000,000 profit -
Pac Man released
Considered among the most famous arcade game of all time
Became a social phenomenon that sold related merchandise and inspired an animated televison series and a top ten hit single -
Start of the third generation "Tetris" Video game crash
TIle matching from the soviet union
Tetris in first place as " Greatest game of all time"
Video game crash- poor game titles and too many et based games, a flood of consoles on the us market gave consumers too many choices.
The crash lasted two years -
Nes releseases
-8 bit console by nintendo
-Most successful of it's time; sold over 60 million worldwide
-Helped revitalize the US industry following the crash of 1984- set the standard for consoles
-First console to play and openly court third party developers -
Nintendo's Gameboy
-8 bit for $89.95
-First succesful handheld predecessor of all other game boys
-orginally bundled with tetris
-sold over 118.69 million worldwide -
Sonic the HedgeHog releases
-Platform by sega
-Successful;increased the popularity of sega's console and established Sonic the HedgeHog as the company's mascot
-Led to the subssquent games in sega's flagship sonic the hedgehog series -
Fourth Generation
16 bit era
Dominated by comercial rivarly between Nintendo and Sega: Super NES vs the sega genesis
The machines introduced in htis generation retained the majority market share until 1996 -
Sega Genesis and Super NES
Sega
supported over 900 games
First 16 bit console to achieve notable market share share 40 millioin inits worldwide
Super NES
Advanced graphics and sound capabilities
Ran 3D graphics better, helping usher in 3d in fifth generation
Best selling of the 16 bit era
Remains popular well into the the 32- bit era -
Fith Generation
32 bit and 64 bit
Dominated by three consoles, sega saturn , sony playstation, and nintendo 64
Nintendos game boy color released
bit ratings did not increase with the exception of nintendo 64
Preformance depended on other factors such as processor clock speed, bandwidth, and memory size -
Sony playstation and Nintendo 64
Playstaion 1994 2 bit by sony first of a series of ps consoles
first to ship 100 million units
ps2 released in 2000 is best selling home console to date
has a psn network Nintendo 64 1996
Nintendo's third home console $199
64 bit processor sold 32.93 million units worldwide
released super mario 64 and pilot wings 64
slogen get in or get out -
Sixth generation PS2
128 bit era
Best selling console in history, selling over 150 million
over 3870 game titles are available
produced for 12 years -
Nintendo GameCube and Xbox
GmaeCube
Nintendo's fourth system used compact discs
Sold 22 million units worldwide
Discs are encrypted and unreadable by most DVD drives
Discontinued in 2007
Xbox
Microsoft first console with 24 million units sold
Allowed player to play online
$299
Discontinued in 2008
Followed by the Xbox 360 and Xbox One -
Seventh Generation Introduced The Xbox 360
By microsoft after the XBOX
Had problems at first
Xbox live allows players to compete online and download content
Streams media from PC
Sold 80 million from PC
Sold 80 million units worldwide seventh highest selling console -
Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3
Nintendo
by nintendo for a broader audiance
As of 2012, the wii led playstation 3 and xbox 360 in worldwide sales
12/2009, broke sales record for a single month in the US
Notable features: conroller, wii connect 24, and virtual console
Playstation 3
third by sony after ps2
first to use blue ray Disc
Can output high defintion video for games and movies in up to 1080p
Intially avaible in two configurations , 20gb and the 60 gb model
