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Mollie Wingham Unit 14: Task 2 Gaming Decade Timeline
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Mollie Wingham

Unit 14: Task 2 Gaming Decade Timeline

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1970’sIn 1972 a USA electric company called Magnavox produced the very first games console that connected to a TV set. It was named Odyssey. At first it didn't do very well because it was new and not known, it was the next generation of gaming that people were uncertain about. However, three years later Magnavox bought out the Odyssey 100 which focused on playing ping pong and hockey but online. This was more successful. For the following three years they continued to upgrade the console making it better each time. For example they made it for four players and added games to it.

Invented by Ralph H. Baer

Atari 2600 was released in 1977. Atari Inc. produced a gaming console that you could put different games cartridges in and play different games instead of them being built in. Over the years Atari Inc. made many more games consoles.

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1980s1983 bought a new console called the Famicom also known as the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). Nintendo released the console that had longer games, more and better quality graphics and colour.

In 1987 the first handheld colour game console was made and put in shops to sell. Its was the Atari Lynx. It could be turned upside down to accommodate left handed players, also it could connect with up to 17 different players.

Sega Genesis was released in 1989, also by Nintendo but also by Sega. They wanted to release something bigger and better after the five year success of the Famicom. This console even had add-ons like Sega CD AND Sega 3x2. The Sega Genesis was a generally better console over all, it was also 4th generation.

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1990sThe game boy was released in Europe in 1990. At this point there had been a few hand-held game consoles made but this one was particularly successful because it released a game that came with the game boy called ‘Tetris’. It was the next up to date console, over the next 15 years Nintendo continued to update the game boy with, game boy colour, advance, pocket and loud.The 90s was a big decade for consoles. In 1995 Sony produced the next best console called ‘PlayStation’. With this console new games were released which increased its profit. Again a few years later the PlayStation2 was released and is one of the most sold and popular game consoles made so far.

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2000-2005The xbox

The Xbox was Microsoft's first independent console in the games console market. Unlike 20 years ago cartridges were no longer being used. The new thing was disks, which you place in the console and it reads information, games didn’t come already on the Xbox, you had to buy them separately. A year after that (2002) came Xbox live. This allowed people to play games together and connect to talk all around the world, however you did have to sign up for this. In 2005 Microsoft bout out the new and improved Xbox 360. Whereas the controller for Xbox was plugged in, the 360 controller was not, also this console has online features.

Over the last few years the technology for gaming has improved and there is now Xbox connect where you don’t even have to have a control to play a game, there is a sensor that picks up movement.

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2004-2006The DS2004 Bought the latest hand held console along with it being the second most popular console of all time, behind the PlayStation2. This is a smaller device than the Atari Lynx, and obviously the graphics are a lot better. You could play game boy games as well as DS games on this console. I think this is partly why it was so popular. It was also by Nintendo. The DS lite came 2 years after the original DS, it was a much better looking console, lighter in colour and the visual effects are clearer. Recently the Nintendo DSi came out and even more recently the Nintendo 3DS which has 3D visual effects, you can also take pictures on it.

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2006+In 2006 the Nintendo Wii bought a new meaning to a family games console, for this reason it was and very successful. Without a wire to connect to the actual console, you could strap the remote to your wrist and play the games, getting exercise as well as having fun. 2007 gave us a very small hand held devise that allows you, internet, music and mini games which cost a lot less then your normal games console, over the next few years the released better versions of the iPod touch. They had cameras and better memory, they were also thinner.The Wii u is set to be released a few weeks from today, (30th November 2012) it is an 8th generation games console and has been made due to the Wii being a hit. It will be the latest and most up to date console in the world. It enables you to connect games to the wii and play together or alone.


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