history of video game consoles
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è stato aggiornato: 3 mar 2022
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The first video game console (working
prototype) debuted as a bulky rectangular
brown wooden box named "Brown Box" The
first video game console consited several
games which brings individuals together.Magnavox had released its Magnavox Odyssey,
a home video game system based on the
“Brown Box,” a prototype invented by Ralph
Baer. The console helped bring the arcade
experience into living rooms for the first time,
allowing players to enjoy games like tennis and
hockey through their television sets."Telstar", Coleco's first video game system, It
was the first system to use GI's AY-3-8500 chip
and was a real success: over a million units
were sold. There was much options of games
like other cartridges included pinball,
battleships, shooting galleries, and hockey
sims.Fairchid channel F was the first programmable
ROM cartridge–based video game console, and
the first console to use a microprocessor. One
feature unique to this console is the ‘hold’
button, which allowed the player to freeze the
game, change the time or change the speed of
the game during the course of the game.Thw Wonder Wizard Model 7702 this system
used a 3-position switch to choose one of three
predefined combinations of difficulties,
avoiding the need to change the ball speed, ball
angle and bat size separately.atari 2600. Atari released what is perhaps the
most famous of the pre-Nintendo videogame
consoles: the Video Computer System (VCS),
later known as the Atari 2600.nintendo color tv series It was a big change
when the nintendo color tv series was released
because the games now had color which made
people love the new color consolesbally astrocade It was originally announced as the "Bally Home Library Computer"
in October 1977 and initially made available for mail order in December 1977.Nintendo enetertanment system the NES was
originally the Famicom, or Family Computer,
and it was released in Japan in 1983Super nintendo system the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
(officially abbreviated as Super NES and SNES),
commonly known as Super Nintendo.It is the second video game home console released by Nintendo internationally.The Nintendo 64 (JP) (N64), stylized as
NINTENDO⁶⁴, is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.
Named for its 64-bit processing unit, it was first released in Japan and North America in 1996,"The PlayStation 2 was released in March of 2000 in Japan, October in North America and
November of that year for eager western consumers.
Day one sales were phenomenal, with the PS2 pulling in combined sales to the tune of $250 million.The brand was first introduced in the United
States in November 2001, with the launch of the original Xbox console. It reached over 24
million units sold by May 2006.Released back in November 2001, the follow up
to the Nintendo 64 marked a turning point for
the Big N that saw the company in the position
of underdog in an industry it had once ruled
with an unquestioned authority.The Xbox 360 was released on November 22,
2005, in the United States and Canada;
December 2, 2005, in Europe and December 10,
2005, in Japan.
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