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2. History of Video Game Consoles

3. Ralph Baer The genius behind all this and thus one of the pioneers of video gaming is Ralph Baer. Already in the early 50's he began thinking for the first time about using television for playing games.

4. Also in vented Simon Simon

6. Pong- one of the first games to be released (1972) Click here

7. 1972 Pong First widely available video game http://www.bafta.org/awards/video- games/play-pong-online,678,BA.htmlhttp://www.bafta.org/awards/video- games/play-pong-online,678,BA.html

8. Atari Pong- 1975 http://www.thegameconsole.com/

9. Many consoles were created, but went belly up Link

10. Telstar 1976- 1 million units sold

11. 1976 Color began to be introduced http://www.2600online.com/videopinball.htm lhttp://www.2600online.com/videopinball.htm l http://www.2600online.com/http://www.2600online.com/ 1979 Lunar Lander

12. Early 1980s Atari 5200 http://www.webworksll c.com/games/Invader s.cfm

13. 1979-1982 The most popular games were Spaces Shooting Games or Sports Shooting Games

14. 1982 Vetrex Had it’s own monitor

15. Commodore 64 http://c64s.com/toplist/

16. Coleco 1982 First to offer Donkey KongFirst to offer Donkey Kong

17. 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System The gold standard for video game systems It put Nintendo on the map and kept them there. The most popular game series of all time was introduced..The most popular game series of all time was introduced.. Online play

18. Atari came and wentSEGA began its introduction

19. 1987 http://www.nescafeweb.com/game.play.ph p?gameid=3

20. 1989 Sega Release the Genesis Knocked Nintendo of the top The most popular game on the genesis was Sonic 1 2

21. 1991 SEGA dominated the market, but Nintendo came back with the SNES Kirby became a popular gameKirby became a popular game

22. Nintendo went to Sony to develop a cd reading game console They deal went bust and thus we now have the Sony Playstation line

23. Websites Used: http://www.thegameconsole.com/videoga mes94.htmhttp://www.thegameconsole.com/videoga mes94.htm http://www.dan-dare.info/