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HISTORY
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1974-2012
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The first video game consle
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first sold home consle -
The Atari Sears Tele-Games Pong System arives
the pong system was the bigest hit in video games that they made about 10 more different pong systems -
Coleco Telstar
Another example of a pong consle that componies make -
Atari 2600
The first consle to have more than 10 games, including pacman, also having the first joystick. -
Nintendo
The compony that everyone knows. Brought you some of the best systems of the era and the one, the only, mario! -
Games
This is the golden age of video games. no more pong related games, better graphics and classic games like Pac-man (1980), Mario Bros (1983), The Legend of Zelda (1986), Final Fantasy (1987), Golden Axe (1988), etc. -
Atari
Atari 5200 is the first system by atari to compete with Nintendo and Sega -
Sega
The Sega SG-1000 was made to beat its competitore and bring it to the top, but got shut down for poor preformance. -
Nintendo
Nintendo Entertainment System or the NES is one of the biggest game systems and is still known now and days as the begining of Mario. -
Nintendo
With all of the compatition in the home gaming console, Nintendo made the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or the Super NES. -
CD Games
CD Games are not really popular until the Playstation and the Gamecube but the first failure was the Philips CD-i. -
Playstation
Sony entered the compatition in 1994 as the first CD system to be popular. Leaving the rest behind as prototypes. -
Nintendo 64
The Nintendo 64 was the last cartrege based game consle by nintendo before going to CD. -
Ending of the compatition
Now game systems are being copyrighted and these stay in the lead for now keeping all compatition away. The 3 main componies are Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. -
Today
Microsoft has moved past the xbox and gone to the Xbox 360.
Sony has upped there game systems to the Playstation 3.
Nintendo has changed from connected controlers on the Game Cube to the wireless hand motion Wii. -
Future
Microsoft has not anounced anything new.
Sony has not anounced anything new.
Nintendo has introdused the new system, The Wii U
