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History of Video Game Consoles

Ralph Baer

The genius behind all this and thus one of the pioneers of video gaming is Ralph Baer. Already in the early 50's he began thinking for the first time about using television for playing games.

• Also in vented Simon

Pong- one of the first games to be released (1972)

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1972 Pong

• First widely available video game

• http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/play-pong-online,678,BA.html

Atari Pong- 1975

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• Many consoles were created, but went belly up

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Telstar 1976- 1 million units sold

1976 Color began to be introduced

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• 1979 Lunar Lander

Early 1980s Atari 5200

• http://www.webworksllc.com/games/Invaders.cfm

1979-1982

• The most popular games were Spaces Shooting Games or Sports

1982 Vetrex

• Had it’s own monitor

Commodore 64

• http://c64s.com/toplist/

Coleco 1982

• First to offer Donkey Kong

1985 Nintendo Entertainment System

• The gold standard for video game systems

• It put Nintendo on the map and kept them there.

• The most popular game series of all time was introduced..

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• Atari came and went • SEGA began its introduction

1987

• http://www.nescafeweb.com/game.play.php?gameid=3

1989 Sega Release the Genesis

• Knocked Nintendo of the top

• The most popular game on the genesis was Sonic

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1991

• SEGA dominated the market, but Nintendo came back with the SNES

• Kirby became a popular game

• Nintendo went to Sony to develop a cd reading game console

• They deal went bust and thus we now have the Sony Playstation line

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• http://www.thegameconsole.com/videogames94.htm

• http://www.dan-dare.info/