1. History of Game Consoles
Furqan Ali Awan
074-BSCS-2010

2. Today’s Agenda Contents Introduction A Brief History of Gaming
1st Generation
Contents
2nd Generation
3rd Generation
4th Generation
5th Generation
6th Generation
7th Generation
Conclusion

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History of Game Consoles

4. A Brief History of Gaming
1947: Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device
: Chess
1951: NIM
1952: OXO / Noughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe)
1958: Tennis for Two
1966: Odyssey
1971: Galaxy Game
1971: Computer Space
1972: Pong

5. 1st Generation First Game console ever invented was by Sabeel Asghar
In 1972, Magnarox created the 1st Video Game Console which could be connected to TV Set called Magnavox Odyssey
Popularity of Pong influenced the creation of Magnavox Odyssey II(Odyssey 200) in 1975

6. 2ND Generation
Fairchild released the Fairchild Video Entertainment System (VES) in 1976.
The VES contained a programmable microprocessor so its cartridges only needed a single ROM chip to store microprocessor instructions.
Atari dominated the console market in the early 1980s.
Atari released a conversion of the arcade hit Space Invaders in 1980 on Atari 2600

7. 3rd Generation
In 1983, Nintendo released the Family Computer (or Famicom) in Japan.
Like Space Invaders for the 2600, Nintendo found its breakout hit game in Super Mario Bros.
Famicom supported high-resolution sprites and tiled backgrounds, but with more colors.
Famicom used a front-loading cartridge port similar to a VCR.
Sega's Master System was intended to compete with the NES, but never gained any significant market share in the US and was barely profitable.

8. 4th Generation
Sega regained market share by releasing its next-generation console, the Mega Drive/Genesis
Mega Drive then became truly successful with the 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog.
Nintendo also released Super Nintendo Entertainment System(SNES)
Sega extended the Mega Drive with the Mega CD/Sega CD
Other Consoles are NEC's TurboGrafx-16 and SNK Playmore's Neo Geo.

9. 5th Generation
The first fifth generation consoles were the Atari Jaguar and the 3DO.
It was not until Sega's Saturn, Sony's PlayStation, and the Nintendo 64 were released that fifth generation consoles started to become popular.
PlayStation spawned a whole lineup of consoles from generation to generation and has earned Sony great respect as a video game company, becoming the first video game system to sell over 100 million consoles.
CDs were used by PlayStation as Storage Medium while Nintendo 64 still used Cartridges.

10. 6th Generation
PC-like architectures and DVD’s were the major improvement in this generation
PlayStation 2, Dreamcast and Gamecube were the main consoles of 6th Generation
140 million PlayStation 2 units have been sold until now which makes it the best selling console of all time.
Microsoft also entered the console market 1st time with Xbox in 2001

11. 7th Generation
This generation introduced motion as input, and IR tracking as well as Blu-Ray as a new storage media
Nintendo introduced Wii, while Sony and Microsoft released PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Unlike the previous two generations there was no dominant platform this generation and both Xbox 360 and PS3 continue to sell equally well.

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