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History of video games
General Golden age of video arcade games History of video games North American video game crash of 1983
Consoles First generation (1972–1977) Second generation (1976–1984) Third generation (1983–1992) Fourth generation (1987–1996) Fifth generation (1993–2006) Sixth generation (1998–) Seventh generation (2005–) Eighth generation (2012–)
Genres History of massively multiplayer online games History of online games History of role-playing video games
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This is a list of home video game consoles in chronological order. This list includes very first video game consoles ever created, such as first generation pong consoles, from the first ever cartridge console Odyssey, ranging from the major video game companies such as Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Microsoft too secondary market consoles. The list is divided into eras and are Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era, though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type. Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. The 128-bit era (fourth generation) is the final era where this practice was viewed as appropriate.^{[citation needed]}

This list doesn't include handheld game consoles, which are usually of lower computational power than the home consoles, as they were much smaller and easily portable. Older consoles hve been redesigned from time to time to keep up there market appeal, redesigned model are not listed on there own. This list does not include clones which are consoles that are designed by pyrites for black market.

First generation (1972–1980)

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

* Consoles of the early 1970s, such as Pong and Magnavox Odyssey were often inaccurately called "analog" but actually discrete logic circuits.^[2]

Second generation (1976–1984)

The Bally Professional Arcade

**Tested in 1979.

Third generation (1983–1989)

The Sega Master System

Fourth generation (1989–1994)

The Sega Genesis with Sega 32X and Sega CD attached.

Fifth generation (1993–1999)

The Sony PlayStation

Sixth generation (1998–2005)

The Nintendo GameCube

Seventh generation (2004–2011)

The Xbox 360

Eighth generation (2011–present)

See also

• List of best-selling game consoles
• List of video game console emulators

References