Timeline: Game Consoles

Period: Jan 1, 1970 to Dec 31, 2010

History of Game Consoles

Sep 10, 1972

First Home Video Game

It was called the "Magnavox Odyssey", created by Magnavox. This video game was able to connect to the TV.

Nov 17, 1976

Farchild Channel F

This was a game console which was released by the Fairchild Semiconductor at the price of $169.59 in the United States. This was the first game which used a microprocesser.

Jan 17, 1977

Nintendo Color TV Game

This product had 5 different series to it. It was developed at released in Japan only. The first 2 models sold over a million while the other 2 models only sold half a million.

Oct 1, 1977

Atari 2600 (VCS)

This game was created by Atari Inc. The game is named after him. This was sold for $199.00 with a librabry of 9 tittles. After this was released for a while, they created a more advanced one which is called Atari 5200.

Jan 17, 1983

Family Computer (Famicom)

This video game had a high-resolution but it also had a lot more colors. This allowed the games to last longer.

Oct 18, 1985

Nintendo NES

This is a game which was released by the company we all know "Nitendo". Masyayuki Uemura designed the system and it is from Japan.

Aug 14, 1989

Sega Genesis

This is a 16-bit video game console. It was released by Sega in Japan. It later on got released in America, Europe, Brazil. The units sold was estimated from 37.4 to over 41.9 million.

Sep 1, 1995

Sony PlayStation

This is a video game which was made by Sony, but they ask Sony for some help.

Sep 29, 1996

Nintendo 64

Nintendo 64 is the company's 3rd home computer game console. Nintendo 64 was released on JUne 23, 1996 in Japan. It was released later on to the world.

Oct 1, 2000

Sony PlayStation 2 (SCPH-5000x)

This was a very popular game console item. When it got released, so many people wanted it that they didn't have enough money to manufacture enough. Some people bought it off the internet at the end.