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Gaming Consoles timeline
Gaming consolers from 1970 to 2011 -
Magnavox
One of the oldest video games. Works quite similar to the video games now by being connected to the television and needed controllers. -
Atari 2600
<a href='' >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600</a>The Atari 2600, it's format was the one of the VES, the first one made with the format. THe Atari 2600 is another one, but made it's way to popularity in the second generation -
Family Computer (Famicom)
The Famicom is similar to the ColecoVision but instead, it has high-resolution sprites and tiled backgrounds, but with more colours. -
Mega Drive/Genesis
The Mega Drive is a fourth generation video game console. It is released by Sega in Japan, it later spread to America where it was called Mega Genesis. -
Atari Lynx
The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit hand held gaming consoles. It was notable for it forward-looking features and with it adavanced layout. However, it was abandoned due to lost of attraction of third party deverlopers. -
PlayStation
The play station is the fifth-generation video game console. It is first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan. -
Virtual Boy
Virtual Boy was manufacture by Nintendo. It was the first gaming consoles to give 'true 3D graphics' out of the box. Unfortunately it started to grow out and Nintendo discontinued it. -
NDS
There are two separate LCD screens, one on the top and one on the bottom. The lower one is a touch screen -
Nintendo Wii
Wii has a wireless controller, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and detects movement in three dimensions. It also has WiiConnect24, which means it is able to receive messages and updates over the Internet while in standby mode. -
PlayStation Portable
The Play Station portable is like the playstation 1,2,3 but is portable. This was popular since people who love PSP wanted to bring it with them without a TV. PSP portable is also the first gaming console to use an optimal disc format.
