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this was the first working gaming console and it originated from the console called Brown Box. -
Mattel electronics released there own console as a direct competitor to the Atari 2600. -
Coleco Industries released their competitor to the Atari and Intellivision consoles in 1982. -
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was first introduced in Japan as the “Famicom". -
this console changed console gaming in 1987 because it was the only console accepting game cartridges. -
Japanese-based Sega was one of the top five arcade manufacturers operating in the U.S. until the late 1980’s. and as the market changed the console shifted away from arcade games and into Japanese homes. -
In 1990, Nintendo released their next generation of consoles which were called super NES or SUPER NINTENDO. -
In 1993, Sega released an updated console and it was smaller than the original. -
In 1995, the Sony PlayStation took the video game market by storm and sold 100k units in presale and over 7 million by 1996. -
The Nintendo 64 was one of the first game consoles to use a 64-bit processor, and it gave gamers better graphics than most Nintendo systems.