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RCA Studio III
RCA had been evaluating the video game market for several years; it had been offered a chance to bid on Ralph Baer's original Odyssey technology back in the early 1970s but had passed on the opportunity. Now, seeing Atari's success, RCA decided to enter the video game market on its own with what it hoped would be the first programmable system.Unfortunately, RCA was a step too slow. RCA's Studio II followed Fairchild to market in January 1977 at a price of $149. -
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magnavox odyssey
It took several years and numerous false starts, but in 1970, Baer showed the game to Magnavox, which signed a licensing agreement the following year. Then, on January 27, 1972, Magnavox launched Baer's "brown box" technology as the Odyssey video game console—the world's first home video game system. Priced at $100. -
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Atari PONG
Also in 1972, inspired by an early peek at Baer's original video tennis game, Nolan Bushnell and his Atari company released an electronic arcade game called PONG, which became a huge success. This game truly launched the electronic gaming revolution; from 1972 through 1976, you couldn't go to a pub or arcade -
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atari pong
inspired by an early peek at Baer's original video tennis game, Nolan Bushnell and his Atari company released an electronic arcade game called PONG, which became a huge success. This game truly launched the electronic gaming revolution; from 1972 through 1976, you couldn't go to a pub or arcade without finding a long line at the PONG machine. -
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video game console history
video game consoles were create in September of 1972 on this timeline I will show the first , second, and some third generation game consoles. -
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Fairchild Channel F
In August 1976, Fairchild Camera and Instrument leveraged its position as the creator of the microchip to release the first programmable home video game system. Based on Fairchild's own 8-bit F8 microprocessor and displaying 16-color graphics, it was capable of playing a variety of games -
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bally professional arcade
One of Atari's first competitors in the programmable video game market was Bally. Even though the Bally unit had better graphics than the Atari VCS, it sold at a much higher price ($350) and failed to catch on beyond a hard-core cult following who appreciated what the system had to offer. In 1981, Bally sold the rights to the Professional Arcade to Astrovision, which in 1982 marketed the then-dying system as the Astrocade. -
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atari 2600
the Atari 2600 is a home video game console released in September 11/1977. a format first used with the Fairchild channel F -
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magnavox odyssey2
Magnavox jumped into the programmable video game market with the Odyssey2. Launched in 1978, the Odyssey2 featured an integrated alphanumeric membrane keyboard. The Odyssey2 was more popular in Europe than in the United States, where parent company Philips Electronics marketed it as the Videopac. In the United States, it sold only about a million units—well below the market-leading Atari 2600. -
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Colecovision
Launched in 1982 at a price of $199, Colecovision featured high-quality graphics and utilized an 8-bit Z-80A microprocessor with 8K RAM. Colecovision's main claim to fame is that it offered high-quality versions of arcade favorites Donkey Kong, Defender, Frogger, Joust, Spy Hunter, and Zaxxon. -
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vectrex
game system that had its own black-and-white monitor over which plastic colored inlays could be placed to add "color" to games. It had two built-in controllers that were shaped kind of like the future Nintendo NES controllers, but with more buttons. Graphics for some games were superior to sprite-based systems, but only a limited number of games could use vector graphics. Released for the 1982 Christmas season, Vectrex didn't achieve widespread support. -
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mattel intellivision
Atari received a more serious competitor in 1980, when Mattel launched its Intellivision video game system. Intellivision featured better graphics than the VCS and was the first video game system to utilize a 16-bit microprocessor—the General Instruments 1600. Intellivision became known for its proprietary sports titles, such as Major League Baseball, NFL Football and NBA Basketball, even though the lack of third-party games contributed to its second-place against the Atari2 -
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Atari 5200
Atari responded to Coleco by releasing the $299 Atari 5200 SuperSystem, which was based on the graphics and audio chips found in the Atari 400 personal computer. Games for the 5200 were essentially improved releases of older 2600 (VCS) games; this lack of new games failed to excite consumers, and the 5200 was lost amid the overall market crash of 1982.