Consolle videogioco

A video game console is an interactive home entertainment computer. The term is used to distinguish a machine designed for consumers to buy and use solely for playing video games from a personal computer, which has many other functions, or arcade games, which are designed for businesses to buy and then charge others to play.

Use of the Term

The term "console" is used in the user manuals of several early video game systems. Its use, however, is not synonymous with "video game system" or the same as its modern usage. Non sono state trovate pagine contenenti il termine "consolle videogioco" Nemesisitaliacom Network - Tutti i Diritti Riservati. It refers to a specific part of the video game system. The term is almost never used in game manuals, catalogs, magazines, or advertisements in the 70's and 80's. The Atari 2600, NES, and other consoles from those decades were called "video game systems" at the time. [1][2]

The first company to use the term "console" to officially refer to its video game system was Sony with the Playstation. [3] At that time, dedicated consoles such as Pong or the Atari Flashback were not being commercially manufactured; game consoles had less in common with computers than they do now or did in the 80's; and Nintendo, manufacturer of the Gameboy, still officially referred to their to their products as "game systems".

The Playstation (and all of the consoles that were out when it was released) was a video game system that you inserted games into and hooked up to a television. Hacks ~ Console Videogame to PC.