Gaming Generations Throughout The Years

Hello TheTechGame and welcome to my topic, I will be showing you how well companies have upgraded and succeeded in making new technology and consoles throughout the years. I will also be showing diagrams of them throughout each generation.

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First generation

Name - Magnavox Odyssey
Company - Magnavox


Name - Ping-o-Tronic
Company - Zanussi/Sleco


Name - Coleco Telstar
Company - Coleco


Name - APF TV Fun
Company - APF


Name - Philips Odyssey
Company - Philips


Name - Pong
Company - Atari Inc.


Name - Radio Shack TV Scoreboard
Company - Radio Shack


Name - Color TV Game 6 (Japan Only)
Company - Nintendo


Name - Color TV Game 15 (Japan Only)
Company - Nintendo


Name - Color TV Racing 112 (Japan Only)
Company - Nintendo


Name - Computer TV Game (Japan Only)
Company - Nintendo


Name - BSS 01 (DDR only)
Company - Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt


Consoles of the early 1970s, such as Pong and Magnavox Odyssey were often inaccurately called "analog" but actually discrete logic circuits

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Second Generation

Name - Fairchild Channel F / Video Entertainment System (VES)
Company - Fairchild


Name - RCA Studio II
Company - RCA


Name - Atari 2600 / Atari Video Computer System (VCS) / Sears Video Arcade
Company - Atari Inc.


Name - Bally Astrocade
Company - Midway


Name - Interton VC 4000
Company - Interton


Name - Magnavox Odyssey
Company - Magnavox / Philips


Name - Channel F System II
Company - Fairchild


Name - APF Imagination Machine
Company - APF


Name - Bandai Super Vision 8000
Company - Bandai


Name - Intellivision
Company - Mattel


Name - PlayCable
Company - Mattel


Name - CreatiVision
Company - VTech


Name - Epoch Cassette Vision
Company - Epoch


Name - Coleco Gemini (Atari 2600 hardware clone)
Company - Coleco


Name - Emerson Arcadia 2001 (Leisure Vision in Canada)
Company - Emerson Arcadia


Name - Atari 5200 (America Only)
Company - Atari Inc.


Name - Atari 5100/Atari 5200 Jr.
Company - Atari Inc.


Name - ColecoVision
Company - Coleco


Name - Entex Adventure Vision
Company - Entex


Name - Vectrex
Company - Smith Engineering


Name - Atari 2800 / Sears Video Arcade II (Japan Only)
Company - Atari Inc.


Name - Intellivision II
Company - Mattel


Name - Super Cassette Vision
Company - Epoch


Name - Atari 2600 Jr.
Company - Atari Inc.

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Third Generation

Name - PV-1000
Company - Casio


Name - Sega SG-1000
Company - Sega


Name - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom
Company - Nintendo


Name - C1 NES TV / Sharp Nintendo Television
Company - Nintendo / Sharp


Name - Atari 7800
Company - Atari Corporation


Name - Sega SG-1000 II
Company - Sega


Name - RDI Halcyon
Company - RDI Video Systems


Name - Sega Master System, Sega Mark III
Company - Sega


Name - Zemmix
Company - Hyundai Electronics


Name - Famicom Disk System (Japan Only)
Company - Nintendo


Name - Atari XEGS
Company - Atari Corporation


Name - Action Max
Company - Worlds of Wonder


Name - Commodore 64GS
Company - Commodore


Name - Amstrad GX4000
Company - Amstrad


Name - Sega Master System II
Company - Sega


Name - NES-101 / AV Famicom
Company - Nintendo


Name - Sega Master System III
Company - Tec Toy

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I will be completing this topic throughout the day/night so please keep looking back

I have 5 more generations to go.

Credit to [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] for all the information I needed.

And a special thanks to morgsboi for helping me with this topic. Be sure to check out his!

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