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Brown Box
The first video game console made. It was invented by Baer, Ralph.H the game was developed a prototype for the first multiplayer, multi program video games system. -
Magnavox Odyssey
The demonstration of the "Brown Box" led to the licensing of the technology by Magnavox in 1972, resulting in the release of the first official home video game console – Magnavox Odyssey. Just as the earliest films do not feature recorded sound, the first video game console is silent as well, with graphics which we would consider very primitive by today’s standard. -
Atari Pong
Pong was the first game developed by Atari Inc., by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The Atari Pong was the most successful commercial video game in 1972. It mocked a game of tennis and players would use pedals to hit a ball back and forth on a black and white 2 dimensional screen. -
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
First console released after the 1984 crash which cam with duck hunt and Super Mario Bros and accompanying lightgun, robotic operation buddy (R.O.B.), and original controllers. -
Sega Master System (SMS)
Was made as competition against Nintendo NES and was superior in many ways such as graphics, technology, and sound. It took cartridges the size of credit cards. It eventually fizzled out when Nintendo took over the console market. -
GameBoy
When it first hit the market it came loaded with a unknown game called Tetris. During the holiday season post launch and sold over 1 million consoles. -
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
Due to the decline of NES products Nintendo made this console and because Saga was started competing for the market. came with 32k colors and introduced Mario world. -
PlayStation
Nearing the end of Super NES's run, console manufacturers and designers were attempting to integrate discs into the hardware. The result was Sony's PlayStation, where, for the first time ever, CDs were used instead of game cartridges. The most detrimental effect of this switch however, was an increase in piracy, as discs were much easy to copy than the traditional cartridge. -
Nintendo 64 (N64)
Nintendo keeped with the traditional expensive cartridges and rumored that they did this to have a stronger enforcement on all their games. Thanks to the knew games that came out Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and The Legend of Zelda franchise it sold millions copies. -
PlayStation 2 (PS2)
As the followup to PlayStation's revolutionary disc-based console, the PS2 continued to revolutionise gaming technology. This time however, the PS2 boasted the Emotion Engine, a unique CPU customised by Sony and Toshiba allowing players to run old PlayStation games on the console, as well as modern DVDs. -
Xbox
Some called it the 'Death Star' and 'the PC in a black box' but Microsoft's Xbox crept onto the scene as 'the black horse' of consoles. A year before its release, Bill Gates asserted at a game developers conference that the Xbox 'would transform the way we consume electronic equipment' and boy, was he right. Touting a relatively unknown game, Halo: Combat Evolved (now synonymous with the Xbox itself), the Xbox quickly beat out the Nintendo GameCube and PS2 as the consumer's console of choice.
