EVOLUTION OF CONSOLES

In the history of consoles, technology has evolved a lot: here we are going to show you the seven generations of consoles.Enjoy and have fun!!!



First Generation:

- Odyssey
  
   Year: 1972
   Company: Magnavox
   It's the first console in the history created by Ralph Baer.This console only  
   had one game and is necessary to use a sheet.
It's most famous games are:

Second Generation:

- Atari 2600
   
  Year: 1977
  Company: Atari
  This sucessed because with only 128 bytes of RAM memory.
  Some of his most famous videogames are: Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and the   
  most famous Mario Bros.

- Odyssey 2/Videopac G7000

Year: 1979
Company: Magnavox/Philips.
Sucessor of the Odyssey, the most important improvement was an graphic improvement (128x64x16 colours)
Some of the most famous videogames are:Alien Invaders, Pink Panther, Frogger,

-Game and Watch

Year:1981
Company:Nintendo
 Line of aproximately 59 electronic videogames, that consisted in only one game played in a LCD screen.
It's most famous videogames are: Pinball, Donkey Kong,The Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros.etc.

-Atari 5200

Year :1982
Company: Atari
This console wasn't o popular like its antecessor; but however it was very good because of their new graphics etc...

-ZX Spectrum

Year: 1982
Company: Sinclair
It was the mos popular 8 bites computers.

-Commodore 64

Year: 1982
Company: Commodore
It had a lot of different games and it has the best sound chip so many musicians used to compose.

-MSX

Year: 1983
Company:  Kazuhiko Nishi
It was very faous, especially because of its proccesor Z8.

-Amstrad CPC

Year: 1984
Company: Anstrad
It wasn't very famous but its black keyboard was so good.

Third Generation:

-Nintendo Entertaimment System (NES)

Year: 1985
Company: Nintendo
It was the first Nintendo console and was so popular because of it was easy to play.

-Atari 7800

Year: 1986
Company: Atari
This was the most wanted console in that time.

-Master System

Year: 1986
Company: Sega
It was a remake of the Sega console: SG-1000.

Fourth Generation:

-Mega Drive (Genesis)

Year: 1988
Company: Sega
It was the new revolutionary console of Sega and had better graphics and ilustrations.

-Atari Lynx

Year: 1989
Company: Atari
It was portable but doesn't had so popular.

-Game Boy

Year: 1990
Company: Nintendo
It was portable and was alimented by battery; it became so popular with the famous game "Tetris".

-Neo Geo

Year: 1990
Company: SNK
It was the most wanted console of the 90's but it price was very high.

-PC Engine/Turbografx

Year: 1990
Company: NEC
It was very innoated because you can introduce a CD.

-Game Gear

Year: 1991
Company: Sega
It was also portable and was one of the first consoles with colour.

-Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)

Year: 1991
Company: Nintendo
It wins all of the others consoles and was so famous because of their original games.

Fifth Generation:

-Atari Jaguar

Year: 1993
Company: Atari
This wasn't very famous.

-Amiga CD32

Year: 1993
Company: Commodore International
It was the first 32 bites console but it doesn't became so popular.

-Saturn

Year: 1994
Company: Sega
It was so innovative because it supports games in 2D and 3D.

-PC-FX

Year: 1995
Company: NEC
It wasn't very famous because it only supports CD games

-PlayStation

Year: 1995
Company: Sony
It was the "new" generation it was so famous because of all of the changes.

-Nintendo 64

Year: 1996
Company: Nintendo
It was the new generation of Nintendo but wasn't very secure.

-Game Boy Pocket

Year: 1997
Company: Nintendo
It was a remake of the classic Game Boy and later this console will have a new remake but with colours.

Sixth Generation:

-PlayStation 2

Year: 2000
Company: Sony
It was a normal console it wasn't very popular.

-Xbox

Year: 2001
Company: Microsoft
It was a new company so it became so popular because it was so interesting.

-PlayStation Portable (PSP)

Year: 2005
Company: Sony
It was the portable version of the PlayStation so it was so interesting for people.

Seventh Generation:

-Xbox 360

Year: 2005
Company: Microsoft
It was the advanced version of the normal Xbox.

-Wii

Year: 2006
Company: Nintendo
It wwas so interesting because the controland kinect.

-PlayStation 3

Year: 2006
Company: Sony
The third "generation" of PlayStation became so so famous.

Eighth Generation:

-Xbox One

Year: 2013
Company: Microsoft
It is espected to be so popular and wanted because of their accesibility and graphics.

-PlayStation 4

Year: 2013
Company: Sony
It is the competition of the Xbox One.



Here is a video of the evolution and a photo and a presentation:

EvolucióN De Las Consolas De Videojuegos from Urian1983