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First Console: The "Brown Box"
Ralph Baer, a German scientist designs the first video game console to work with standard televison. -
Magnavox Odyssey Invented
The first commercial video box console is developed. -
Pong was now in homes.
In 1975 Atari sells a home version of Pong. -
Atari 2600 VCS
Atari begins the project with an idea of using a cartridge based system so the console had the ability to play many games. -
Intellivision
Mattel releases the Intellivision becoming the first challenge to Atari's console the 2600 VCS. Featuring better graphics than Atari, Mattel is also the first company to release a console with synthesized voices in the video games. -
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System had soon broken sales records and became the best-selling console in video-game history. -
Gameboy
Nintendo's second console is the first major handheld game console. -
Neo-Geo
With huge, 2-D detailed graphics, the Neo-Geos appeal is its arcade-level quality for use in a home system. -
Super NES
At the end of the 16-bit era in the mid-'90s, SNES rises to become the top-selling 16-bit system in the U.S. -
Playstation
The arrival of Sony's Playstation marks the most popular console of the 32-bit era of video-games. -
Nintendo 64
This console was marked as the last mass-making system to use cartridges for games. -
PS2
This is the first 182-bit system, which features backwards-compatibility and also functions as a DVD player. -
Xbox
Implementing the use of pc technology, Microsoft makes its first system in the console market. -
Nintendo Gamecube
Nintendo's first 128-bit gaming system marks the first non-cartridge based game. -
GameBoy Advance
The next step in GameBoy's evolution creating the gameboy advance, a backwards-compatible portable system. -
Nintendo DS
This system features dual screens along with touch screen technology. -
PSP
In an effort to challenge Nintendo's dominating handheld gameboy, sony releases the playstation portable. -
Xbox 360
This system runs on a three-core PowerPc-based CPU to better render game physics and graphics.
