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The "Brown Box"
Invented by Ralph H. Baer aka. "The Father of Video Games".
There were only six simple games for the console, namely ping-pong, tennis, handball, volleyball, chase games and a light-gun game. -
Magnavox Odyssey
The demonstration of the "Brown Box" led to the licensing of the technology by Magnavox in 1972, resulting in the release of the first official home video game console – Magnavox Odyssey. -
Pong
Atari's Pong is released with help from Sears Roebuck, which finances the production of 150,000 units. It becomes the hottest selling Christmas present. Sears sells the product exclusively, with the Sears Tele-Games logo. -
Coleco Telstar Arcade
The Telstar Arcade is one of the earliest cartridge-based systems. It's quite unique with its triangular layout and extra controls. -
Astrocade
The Astrocade was originally released as the Bally Home Arcade in January of 1978. The system was designed to compete directly with the Atari 2600. In 1980 Bally sold the system to Astrovision in 1980, who then renamed the system Astrocade. Due to this, many games and systems may be branded by Bally or Astrovision. -
Asteroids
Asteroids is the first game to allow high scorers to enter three character initials to be stored in the machine. -
Pacman
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway -
Vectrex
The Vectrex is a vector display-based video game console that was developed by Western Technologies/Smith Engineering. -
NES
Once the best-selling gaming console of its time the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983 -
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. is a 1985 platform video game developed by Nintendo, published for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. It is the first of the Super Mario series of games -
Tetris
The popular game Tetris is developed by Russian programmer Alex Pajitnov. It is played on a PC. -
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda, originally released as The Hyrule Fantasy: Legend of Zelda. -
Street Fighter
Street Fighter (ストリートファイター, Sutorīto Faitā?), commonly abbreviated as SF, or スト, is a series of fighting games developed in Japan in which the players pit the video games' competitive fighters from around the world, each with his or her own unique fighting style, against one another. -
GameBoy
Nintendo released the Game Boy on April 21, 1989 (or in September 1990 for UK). The design team headed by the late Gunpei Yokoi had also been responsible for the Game & Watch system, as well as the Nintendo Entertainment System games Metroid and Kid Icarus. -
The Playstaion
The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. In 2000, a re-designed, "slim" version was released, called the PSone, replacing the original grey console, and also being renamed to avoid confusion with its successor, the newly-released PlayStation 2. -
Pokemon
Pokémon is a series of games developed by Game Freak and Creatures Inc. and published by Nintendo as part of the Pokémon media franchise. -
The Sega Dreamcast
The Dreamcast (ドリームキャスト Dorīmukyasuto?) is a video game console which was released by Sega in November 1998 in Japan and later in 1999 in other territories. It was the first entry in the sixth generation of video game consoles, preceding its rivals: Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube. -
Playstation 2
The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling console of all time, having reached over 154.4 million units sold as of November 21, 2011. -
The GameCube
The Nintendo GameCube was the first Nintendo home console to use optical discs as its primary storage medium, after several aborted projects from Nintendo and its partners to utilize optical-based storage media. -
Xbox
As part of the sixth-generation of gaming, the Xbox competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast (which stopped American sales before the Xbox went on sale), and Nintendo's GameCube. The Xbox was the first console offered by an American company after the Atari Jaguar stopped sales in 1996 -
End of sega hardware
Sega announces that it will no longer manufacture hardware. -
The Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console developed by and produced for Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. As of April 19, 2012, 67.2 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide. -
Playstation 3
is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. -
Wii
Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others.[7] As of the first quarter of 2012, the Wii leads the generation over the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in worldwide sales,[8] and in December 2009, the console broke the record for best-selling console in a single month in the United States.[9] -
Kinect
Kinect is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands.
