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First console
magnavox odyssey
the worlds first game console and predates the atari pong home console -
Pong
pong was a coin-op acarde game made by Atari Inc.
It was the first game to gain widespread popularity and it launched the industry -
Gran track 10
A single player racing arcade game by Atari
player races against the game clock, accumulating points -
Maze wars
it was one of the first ever FPS games (frames per second)
players just wander in a maze nd gain points for shooting other players and lose poitns for getting shot -
Second generation
early 8 bit home consoles -
Atari 2600
Popularized game cartridges - popular in the 1980s
Originally Atari VCS; later changed to "Atari 2600" in 1982, after the released of Atari 5200 -
Chuck E cheese
Pizza restaurant with arcade games, amusement rides, an animatronics show, climbing equipment, tubes, and slides
Helped improve the image of video games -
Space invaders
it was created in japan than later licensed in the US
players defeat waves of aliens with a laser and earn points -
Asteroids
popular and influential game and it sold 70,000 by atari
the game was mostly shoot asteroids and saucers while not colliding or being hit by counter fire -
Pac man
the most famous acarde game of all time
Generated more than $2.5 billion in quarters by the 1990s
Highest brand awareness of any video game character -
Galaga
Control a space ship while aliens fly in formation and come down at the player's ship to either shoot or collide
Players fire at enemies, and once all enemies are vanquished, at which point the player moves to the next stage -
Mario brothers
mario is a italian american plumber and his brother luigi must defeat creaturs from the sewers of new york -
tetris
Name is from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- four segments
Electronic Gaming Monthly's 100th issue had Tetris in first place as "Greatest Game of All Time“ -
video game crash
The delay of Atari's 7800 console left consumers hungry for the next big thing
A flood of consoles on the US market gave consumers too many choices
Poor game titles and too many games based on the movie ET
Introduction of personal computers like the Commodore 64 -
nintendo's game boy
first succesful handheld predecessor of all other game boys -
Super Nintendo
had advance graphics and sound capabilities
best selling of the 16-bit era
ran 3D graphics better, helping the user in 3D in the fifth generation -
Sega Saturn
Powerful machine for the time, but its design made harnessing power diffcult
was the 'other" system, running a distant third behind the nintendo 64 and the playstation -
Playstation 2
best-selling console in history, selling over 150 million
over 3870 game title are available
produced for 12 year -
Xbox
microsoft first console with 24 million units sold
allowed players to play online
discontinued in 2008
followed by the xbox 360 and xbox one -
xbox 360
xbox live allows players to complete online and download content
streams media from pc
