KidzSearch Wiki

History of video game consoles

The history of video games go back a long way, from the 1950s in fact. Over the course of the past 80 or so years, we've seen the console be heavily polished over the years.


History Of Video Game Consoles Media

  • The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console, released in 1972.

  • The Atari 2600 became the most popular game console of the second generation.

  • Dug-up copies of E.T. and Centipede for the Atari 2600 from the Atari video game burial in New Mexico photographed in 2014. The Atari burial to dispose of unsold stock was created in September 1983 and seen as an iconic element of the 1983 video game crash.

  • The Nintendo Entertainment System made home console video games popular again in America after the 1983 crash.

  • Sega saw their greatest success in the video game console market with the Genesis, their fourth generation console; however, it was ultimately outsold by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

  • The Sega CD add-on, mounted below the Sega Genesis

  • The original Game Boy model

  • The Sony PlayStation became the most popular system of the fifth generation consoles, eventually selling over 100 million systems.

  • The Virtual Boy headset and controller

  • With more than 155 million units sold, the Sony PlayStation 2 is the best selling video game console in history.

Retrieved from "https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/w/index.php?title=History_of_video_game_consoles&oldid=5806163"