![]() ![]() Atari, Magnavox and Coleco made the most popular ones. Hundreds of companies made pong clone systems of various shapes, sizes, and price. Speakers were built into the consoles, which only played the built in pong games. ![]() The first commercial success in video games, most of these units consisted of two knobs, system selector, and a cord to the TV. Several games had multiple pieces that required a board game to be played as part of the experience. Odyssey games consisted of a few white blocks, and overlays you put on your tv. The system consists of a base unit and controllers that look more like vacuum accessories than joysticks. Very few companies would be able to move forward in the business after the bubble burst in 1983.ĭesigned by Ralph Baer, this is the world’s first home video game system, predating Pong by over three years. The ‘golden age’ of video games, this was a time period in which many unique video game projects were released on limited finances. The following consoles were released before or during the great video game crash of 1983-1984. And you may read about a few that you will never see.Įach description is linked to further information about that system on Wikipedia or any of several other online video game history sites. It's a great resource for a collector or player interested in "branching out" and a nice overview of many of the consoles that you may see at a classic game event. The PRGE console guide is a list, sorted by era, of every video game console released in North America. ![]() Everyone knows the system that they grew up with, we have discovered many of our favorite games on consoles we neither owned, nor even knew existed, prior to collecting them. Game Consoles By Jon Rose and John HancockĬollecting video games is fun, but sometimes a person new to collecting games (or even an old one branching out to a different system) can be pretty overwhelmed by the sheer number of consoles available. ![]()
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