Game Consoles - Il nastro del tempo

Magnavox Odyssey- First Console Released ------------------------------ Price- $100 (equivalent to $585 in 2018) NA: August 1972 EU: 1973 JP: 1974 (licensed to Nintendo)

TV Tennis Electrotennis ------------------------------ Japan Release (only) - ¥20,000 (equivalent to $349 in 2018)

Home Pong ------------ NA: 98.95 (equivalent to $450 in 2018)

Binatone TV Master ------------------------------- £35 (equivalent to £231, or $358, in 2018) UK: 1976 NA: 1976 (licensed to Magnavox)

Fairchild Channel F --------------------------- US$169.95 (equivalent to $731.00 in 2018) The Fairchild Channel F is a home video game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in November 1976 across North America at the retail price of $169.95. It was also released in Japan in October the following year.

Atari 2600 --------------- US$200 (equivalent to $808.00 in 2018) EU: 1978 JP: May 1983 The Atari 2600 is a home video game console by Atari, Inc. It is credited with the use of microprocessor-based hardware and ROM cartridges containing game code, format first used with Fairchild Channel F video game console in 1976. This format contrasts with the older model of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware, which could only play the games that were physically built into the unit.

Bally Astrocade --------------------- US$299 (equivalent to $1.21 thousand in 2018) The Astrocade is a second generation home video game console and simple computer system designed by a team at Midway. It was marketed only for a limited time before Bally decided to exit the market. The rights were later picked up by a third-party company, who re- released it and sold it until around 1984.

Magnavox Odyssey² --------------------------- US$200 (equivalent to $750.00 in 2018) ¥49,800 EU: December 1978 JP: 1982 BRZ: 1983 In the early 1970s, Magnavox pioneered the home video game industry by successfully bringing the first home console to market, the Odyssey, which was quickly followed by a number of later models, each with a few technological improvements. In 1978, Magnavox, now a subsidiary of North American Philips, decided to release an all-new successor, Odyssey².

Intellivision ------------------ US$299 (equivalent to $888.00 in 2018) USA: Test marketed in 1979 EU: 1982 JP: 1982 The Intellivision is a home video game console released by Mattel Electronics. Development of the console began in 1977, In 1984 Mattel sold the Intellivision business to a former Mattel Electronics executive and investors that would become INTV Corporation. Games development started in 1978 and continued until 1990 when the Intellivision was discontinued.

Emerson Arcadia 2001 -------------------------------- The Emerson Arcadia 2001 is a second- generation 8-bit console released by Emerson Radio Corp in 1982 following the release of ColecoVision. It was discontinued only 18 months later, with a total of 35 games having been released.

ColecoVision ------------------ US$199 (equivalent to $505.00 in 2018) EU: 1982 The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second- generation home video-game console that was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered a closer experience to more powerful arcade game systems compared to competitors such as the Atari 2600, along with the means to expand the system's basic hardware.

Atari 5200 --------------- US$270 (equivalent to $685.00 in 2018) The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a home video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a higher-end complementary console for the popular Atari 2600. The 5200 was created to compete with the Intellivision, but wound up more directly competing with the ColecoVision shortly after its release.

Vectrex ----------- US$199 (equivalent to $505.00 in 2018) EU: May 1983 JP: June 1983 Vector display-based home video game console that was developed by Western Technologies/Smith Engineering. It was licensed and distributed by General Consumer Electronics, and then by Milton Bradley Company after its purchase of GCE. It was released at a retail price of $199; as Milton Bradley took over prices dropped, before the video game crash of 1983 and finally retailed at $49 after the crash.

Magnavox Odyssey series ------------------------------- Discontinued- 11 consoles US$100–230 (equivalent to $455–1046 in 2018) NA: 1975—1978

Telstar series ------------------- 14 models US$50 (equivalent to $215 in 2018) NA: 1976—1978

Color TV-Game series ------------------------------ 5 consoles ¥8300–48,000 (equivalent to $122–708 in 2018) JP: 1977—1980

Golden age of arcade video games --------------------------------------------- Video games were well established in the U.S. amusement industry, but their popularity was second to stalwarts of pool and pinball. While video games had been introduced to Japan soon after hitting the United States, the Japanese arcade industry had remained focused on electro-mechanical driving/shooting games and a type of slot machine called the "medal game" that accepted and paid out in medals.