Developing History of Technical Developments

Brown Box

Jan 13, 1967

This was the first video game console. It was a simple design. A brown wodden box with two attached controllers. This was also known as "The Father of Video Games" This game conscole was able to hook up with other sets. Only simple games were created for this console.

Magnavox Odyssey

Jun 26, 1972

This game console was released ni 1972. It does not feature recorded sound, its first creation of playable video game was silent with very minimal graphics

Atari Sears Tele-Games Pong System

Feb 26, 1975

This was a game console released in 1973. This was marketed as a home conscole in 1975.

Atari 2600 VCS

Jun 26, 1977

This game consoled was released in 1977. This was a carttridge game console that is capable of playing multiple games. This console was very popoular with its space invaders game.

Intellivssion

Jun 26, 1980

This game consoled was released by Mattel. This game console ws created to challenge the dominance of Atari. This game console features better graphiscs than the atari as well as containing a feature of synthesized voice in video games.

Nintendo entertainment System

Jun 26, 1985

The japanese creators released nintento system in the U.s. This video game was popular is Super mario bros. The nintendo was originally a third party development but became a popular hit throughout the market.

Game Boy

Jun 26, 1989

Nintendo also released the gameboy. It was a very popular release in the markets as many people was buying it. The gameboy featured a 8 bit CPU with a black and white LCD screen. Tetris was a very popular game on the gameboy.

Neo-Geo

Jun 26, 1990

The Neo-Geo was made as a home system it was a very popular use for households. This conslle had huge detailed 2d graphics. Its consle price was the reason why this conslle achieved its popularity because it was seen to be cheaper than other great consoles.

Super NES

Jun 26, 1991

The nintendo releases a new system. This sytem had a technological advancement than other consoles. Videos games like SUper Mario Bros again was a big hit for this console as nintendo was famous for the invovlment on this game.

Playstation

Jun 26, 1995

Sony release the first ever playstation. This console was a 32 bit video game. This game contained 3D gameplay with a CD-ROM inteface.

Nintendo 64

Jun 26, 1996

Another masive nitendo system was released. This was a cartidge based system that featured as a massive hit on the markets. This console was more expensive to prouce but the advantage that this consle had a fast loading speed.

Dream Cast

Jun 27, 1998

The dreamcast popular gaming console. It was famous for its releases for many popular serie gaames. One dreamcast game held the most expensive game ever released upon release. This was the first gaming console to use full frames.

Playstation 2

Jun 26, 2000

The producers sony released another massive hit. This console was the first 128-bit system. It features backwards compatibility. This console wsa capable of playing playstation 1 games. The release of grand theft auto on this console made this concsole a very famous purchase

Xbox

Jun 26, 2001

This game console was released by Microsoft. This game consle featured a lot of use in PC technology in building the console. This allowd it to perform much better than recent consoles with faster load ups slightly better graphics than others.

Game Cube

Jun 27, 2001

This was the first nintendo game console to use optical discs. This game console was not designed to play DVD or audio CDS. One of the best features of this game conslle is that it provides online gaming and interaction.

Gameboy advance

Jun 26, 2002

This was a big upgraded from the original gameboy. This evovled as a backwards compatible portable system that has capabilites of playing game boy games. The LCD screen was capable of displaying more than 32,000 colours.

Nintendo DS

Jun 26, 2004

This nintendo was released to intergrate more computing functions into its gaming consoles. This featured dual screens and touch screen technology. This also features backwards compatibility for older nintendo games.

Playsation Portable

Jun 26, 2005

This game consle was released by sony as a portable playsattion. This featured wireless capability and high quality graphics with non gaming functions such as photo storage and digitial o , audio and video capbailities.

Xbox 360

Jun 27, 2005

This was a video games console developed by microsoft. This was seen as a successor to the original Xbox. This was the second cosnole created in the xbox series. A fantastic feature is that it features online gaming and interaction with a more virtual world side to it.

Playstation 3

Jun 27, 2006

This video game was produced by sony. This was the succesor to its younger version, Playstation 2. Many features of this console included online gaming and interaction. This playsation unlike the xbox 360 included FREE online gaming.