I have tried to describe the history and developments of gamehardware, but challenge anyone to prove me wrong as I have based most of this on what I could find on the internet and in Wikipedia.
Let me know if you think my dates are wrong or something important is missing.
I didn't take all the consoles into account, just the ones I feld were 'new' stepping stones in the development proces to the current generation of consoles....
| Console | Year | Home Entertainment Systems & Software carriers |
| Generation | ||
| 1889 | Nintendo founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi | |
| 1st Gen | 1972 | Magnavox |
| Atari | ||
| 1975 | Philips Telespiel | |
| 1975 | Microsoft corporation founded | |
| 1976 | Atari 2600 | |
| 2nd Gen | 1980 | MS DOS software |
| 1980 | Nintendo Game & Watch handheld games | |
| 1981 | IBM Personal Computer | |
| 1982 | Activision wins law suit | |
| 1982 | Atari 5200 computer | |
| 1982 | Introduction of MSX ASCII code | |
| 1983 | Nintendo Famicom (NES) | |
| 1983 | Commodore 64 Homecomputer (and multiple MSX's) | |
| 1983 | Invention of CD and CDROM | |
| 3rd Gen | 1984 | Apple Macintosh |
| 1985 | Commodore 128 | |
| 1985 | Windows 1.0 software introduced by Microsoft | |
| 1985 | Commodore Amiga | |
| 1987 | IBM PS/2 | |
| 1988 | Sega Megadrive | |
| 1989 | Nintendo Gameboy monochrome | |
| 4th Gen | 1989 | Atari Lynx portable game computer |
| 1991 | Introduction of Cdi | |
| 1991 | Super NES (Nintendo) | |
| 1992 | The end of MSX computers by Philips and Sony | |
| 1992 | Launch of Windows 3.1 | |
| 5th Gen | 1993 | Atari Jaguar |
| 1994 | Sega Saturn | |
| 1995 | Introduction of DVD | |
| 1995 | Introduction of Windows '95 | |
| 1996 | Nintendo 64 | |
| 1998 | Nintendo Gameboy color | |
| 1998 | Apple iMac design computers | |
| 6th Gen | 1998 | Windows '98 |
| 2000 | Introduction of Windows Millenium edition | |
| 2001 | Windows XP Home and Professional | |
| 2001 | Introduction of Gameboy Advance | |
| 2001 | Microsoft enters console market with the Xbox | |
| 2003 | Gameboy advance SP | |
| 7th Gen | 2004 | |
| 2005 | Gameboy Micro & Nintendo DS | |
| 2005 | Microsoft beats PlayStation in time with the Xbox 360 | |
| 2005 | PlayStation Portable (PSP) launched in USA & Europa | |
| 2005 | PlayStation 3 hits the market | |
| 2006 | Nintendo DS Light (DS = Dual Screen) |
For the complete history visit this websit http://www.thegameconsole.com/
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