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The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console, released in 1972. The first video games appeared in the 1960s. They were played on massive computers connected to vector displays, not analog televisions. Ralph H. Baer conceived the idea of a home video game in 1951. -
Atari 2600 was the second generation of gaming consoloes.
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In the history of computer and video games, the third generation (sometimes referred to as the 8-bit era) began on July 15, 1983, with the Japanese release of both the Family Computer (referred to in Japan in the abbreviated form "Famicom", and later known as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, in the rest of the world) and SG-1000.
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The first handheld game console released in the fourth generation was the Game Boy, on April 21, 1989.
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PlayStation (1994)
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The sixth generation of video game consoles began on November 27, 1998. Wich is when xbox was invented.
