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,
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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.
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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...
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ZX Spectrum
Year: 1982
Company: Sinclair
It was the mos popular 8 bites computers.
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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.
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MSX
Year: 1983
Company:
Kazuhiko Nishi
It was very faous, especially because of its proccesor Z8.
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Amstrad CPC
Year: 1984
Company: Anstrad
It wasn't very famous but its black keyboard was so good.
Third Generation:
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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.
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Atari 7800
Year: 1986
Company: Atari
This was the most wanted console in that time.
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Master System
Year: 1986
Company: Sega
It was a remake of the Sega console: SG-1000.
Fourth Generation:
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Mega Drive (Genesis)
Year: 1988
Company: Sega
It was the new revolutionary console of Sega and had better graphics and ilustrations.
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Atari Lynx
Year: 1989
Company: Atari
It was portable but doesn't had so popular.
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Game Boy
Year: 1990
Company: Nintendo
It was portable and was alimented by battery; it became so popular with the famous game "Tetris".
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Neo Geo
Year: 1990
Company: SNK
It was the most wanted console of the 90's but it price was very high.
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PC Engine/Turbografx
Year: 1990
Company: NEC
It was very innoated because you can introduce a CD.
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Game Gear
Year: 1991
Company: Sega
It was also portable and was one of the first consoles with colour.
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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:
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Atari Jaguar
Year: 1993
Company: Atari
This wasn't very famous.
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Amiga CD32
Year: 1993
Company: Commodore International
It was the first 32 bites console but it doesn't became so popular.
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Saturn
Year: 1994
Company: Sega
It was so innovative because it supports games in 2D and 3D.
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PC-FX
Year: 1995
Company: NEC
It wasn't very famous because it only supports CD games
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PlayStation
Year: 1995
Company: Sony
It was the "new" generation it was so famous because of all of the changes.
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Nintendo 64
Year: 1996
Company: Nintendo
It was the new generation of Nintendo but wasn't very secure.
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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:
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PlayStation 2
Year: 2000
Company: Sony
It was a normal console it wasn't very popular.
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Xbox
Year: 2001
Company: Microsoft
It was a new company so it became so popular because it was so interesting.
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PlayStation Portable (PSP)
Year: 2005
Company: Sony
It was the portable version of the PlayStation so it was so interesting for people.
Seventh Generation:
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Xbox 360
Year: 2005
Company: Microsoft
It was the advanced version of the normal Xbox.
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Wii
Year: 2006
Company: Nintendo
It wwas so interesting because the controland kinect.
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PlayStation 3
Year: 2006
Company: Sony
The third "generation" of PlayStation became so so famous.
Eighth Generation:
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Xbox One
Year: 2013
Company: Microsoft
It is espected to be so popular and wanted because of their accesibility and graphics.
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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: