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Often regarded as the first game console, the Odyssey was a very simple machine that had games that consisted of white dots and lines.
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PONG is probably one of, if not the most recognized game in the world and is often credited as the first video game even though that isn't true.
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With games such as Breakout and Adventure the Atari 2600 signified the beginning of Atari's success.
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This is the event credited to starting the golden age of video games
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This time period started with the release of Space Invaders and ended with the slowly increasing disappearance of coin-operated arcade games. The exact time period is disputed, so i used the most commonly accepted times.
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The release of this classic arcade game signifies the birth of the Mario franchise for Nintendo
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This is the event credited with ending the golden age of video games and credited as the start of the video game crash
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The market for video games was so bad at this point that some companies gave up or went bankrupt but those who made it through profited in the long run.
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Marking the rise in Nintendo's early monopoly, the NES sold over 1.1 million units and demolished the competition. This is also credited with helping the video game market recover after the crash.
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This event signifies the fall of Atari
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With Nintendo, Sega, and Atari all releasing new consoles for the third generation, lots of competition arose and many consumers chose favorites. The war started with the release of The Legend of Zelda and ended around 1996
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This is considered a failure because only 125,000 consoles were sold but Sega continued to develop consoles
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Sega's third major console greatly outdoes the previous console and sells over 4 million units.
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Sega's fourth major console completely flopped and eventually doomed the company
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The companies first console sells over 3 times the amount of units than the Nintendo 64 does.
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The Nintendo 64 was released and was a commercial success but it was majorly overshadowed by the Playstation
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AKA "128-bit era"
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Sega's last console was by no means bad, it was just overshadowed by all of the other competitors which made the company become a third party developer rather than a console creator.
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Sony stays strong with their second console and proves they will continue strong
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This event is credited as the cause of the second console war.
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The release of the Xbox by Microsoft starts the war, and the main competitors today are Sony and Microsoft, with Nintendo still somewhat relevant, but not to the degree of the others.
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The use of motion controls was mostly a success, but not every way that they are used worked well.
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This new experimental model was overall a commercial failure that Nintendo seems to have learned from.
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There is a debate about what generation of console that this falls under, but the consensus is that it is a 9th generation console
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