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| Gamesters Home Video Game Timeline |
| Timeline of Home Video Games |
| First Generation, 1972 - 1777 1972 - Magnavox Odyssey 1972 - Atari Pong (Arcade version) 1974 - Atari Pong (Home version) 1976 - Fairchild Channel F 1977 - RCA Studio II Second Generation, 1977 - 1981 1977 - Atari VCS/2600 1978 - Bally Professional Arcade 1978 - Magnavox Odyssey 2 1979 - Mattel Intellivision 1979 - Milton-Bradley Microvision 1981 - Emerson Arcadia 2001 Third Generation, 1981 - 1984 1982 - ColecoVision 1982 - Atari 5200 1982 - Milton-Bradley Vectrex 1984 - Atari 7800 Fourth Generation, 1985 - 1989 1985 - Nintendo Entertainment System 1985 - Sega Master System 1987 - Atari XEGS 1988 - Atari Lynx (Portable) 1988 - Nintendo Game Boy (Portable) Fifth Generation, 1989 - 1990 1989 - NEC TurboGraphix-16 1989 - Sega Genesis 1990 - SNK Neo-Geo 1990 - NEC TurboExpress 1990 - Sega Game Gear (Portable) |
| Sixth Generation, 1991 - 1993 1991 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1991 - Sega CD (System add-on for Genesis) 1991 - NEC TurboDuo 1992 - Philips CD-I 1993 - Panasonic 3D0 1993 - Atari Jaguar Seventh Generation, 1995 - 1996 1995 - Sega Saturn 1995 - Sony Playstation 1995 - Nintendo VirtualBoy (Portable) 1996 - Nintendo 64 Eighth Generation, 1997- 2003 1997 - Nintendo Gameboy Color 1999 - Sony Playstation 2 2001 - Nintendo Gameboy Advance 2002 - Nintendo Gamecube 2002 - Microsoft Xbox 2003 - Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP 2003 - Nokia N-Gage Mobile Phone Future Systems, 2004- Present 2004 - Nokia N-Gage QD Mobile Phone 2004 - Nintendo Dual Screen 2005 - Sony Playstation Portable 2005 - Microsoft Xenon (Xbox 2) 2005 - Sony Playstation 3 2006 - Nintendo Revolution (Gamecube 2) This timeline from "A Brief History of Video Games" @ http://www.geekcomix.com/vgh/main.shtml |
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