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Magnavox Odyssey is the world's first game console sold in markets. Pong is a smash hit arcade game.
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This adds controls, wheels, pedals, and accelarators to arcade machines, which is a first. It used an early diode based ROM. Maze Wars is one of the first FPS games.
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Fairchild Channel F is worl's second cartridge based console.
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The Atari 2600 popularized gaming cartidges. Chuck E Cheese's was a resaturant that aimed food and video games towards children and improved the image of video games.
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This game was released and was extremely succesful. Sold billions across the globe. The pixel alien has become synonmous with video games.
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A smah hit. It has become a cultural icon and has inspired tv shows and countless video games. Achieved highest brand awareness of any video game character.
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Donkey Kong introduced Nitendo's most famous characters and was a massive success throught the 80's and 90's. Frogger became an instant classic knwon for its novelty. Galaga became another instamt classic with its fixed shooter style.
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A Disney movie that influenced a gam that involed gladiatorial competition.
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Q-Bert was a succcesful 3D arcade game involving blocks. Pole Position was the most popular coin-op game in 1982 and 1983.
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Nitendo release Mario Brothers, a platform colored arcade game.
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Becomes a massive global success. It sold more than 70 million copies.
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A delay of Atari's next console left consumers hungry for video games. There was a flod of consoles on US markets. Lots of crappy games were released because of this. Less people bought consoles and went to computers. The crash lasted 2 years and the NES revitalized the video game market.
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This 8-bit console by Nitendo was the most succesful of its time and sold millions worldwide. It revitalized the US gaming industry.
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Replaced the 5200 and put Atari over Nitendo and Sega. It was affordable and designed to be upgraded to a home computer.
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Nitendo releases the Gameboy. It is the first succesful handheld predecessor of all other game boys. It was bundled with Tetris. A huge success.
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Sonic becomes Sega's first succesful platform. It launched a huge franchise and series of games.
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The 16 bit era begins. Nitendo and Sega rival each other with their systems.
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The Nitendo 64 is released. It makes millions worldwide. it also introduces more 3D games.
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It is the best selling console on history. It is produced for 12 years. There are thousaunds of titles released for it.
