This machine sported two built-in controllers that were as comfortable as they were practical. The unique
disk-shaped directional pad provided unprecedented control for the time, and the numeric keypad opened up new
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This forum is dedicated to the Astrocade Videogame system. |
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The Magnavox Oddyssey helped start the videogame industry. Post your comment about the system here. |
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2008-03-18 04:40:07.0
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The system that started it all. Post a comment about this awesome system. |
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This system took videogames to the mainstream audience. Did you have one of these systems? Let us know about it. |
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The first system with a voice simulation. WOW!! |
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Telestar was a series of video game models made by Coleco which preceded the Colecovision by 10+ years. |
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The first microchip was created at Fairchild Camera and Instrument by Robert Noyce. This small wafer of silicon would play the most important role in the evolution of video games. |
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RCA executives had been kicking themselves ever since they let Ralph Baer's system slip through their fingers and into the hands of Magnavox. Because of this, RCA was busy trying to catch up with the video game console explosion of the late seventies. |
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The legendary company whose name is synonymous with the word "videogame." Founded as an arcade- game produced by Pong inventor Nolan Bushnell in 1972, Atari came to prominence in 1977 with the company's most famous product, the TV game system Atari 2600. |
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Bally, a pinball giant with moderate success in arcade games, had been completely side-swiped by the video game explosion of the First Generation. |
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Carlsbad, California's RDI, in near-bankruptcy in 1981, created Dragon's Lair -- the first interactive laserdisc game to enter the arcades. |
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The Adventure Vision is a cartridge based, electronic handheld video game that was manufactured in 1982 by Entex Industries, Inc. |
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This was a neat little system that allowed you to play some simple liquid crystal games. |
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2008-03-18 04:38:07.0
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Do you have any information or facts about this videogame system? If you do, we would love to here from you. Submit it |
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The Emerson Arcadia has got to be one of the most underrated systems on earth. It also tends to be one of the least collected systems out there. |
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The XE Game System was simply a repackaged Atari home computer. |
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Atari Lynx - 1989. After designing the advanced Commodore Amiga home computer,
R.J. Mical and Dave Needle decided to create the first color portable programmable game system. |
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The snk neo geo is the only 24 bit console in existence. |
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A good fact to remember about virtual boy is that it's a terrible system. Seriously. Not only is it horribly
damaging to the eyes, it's extremely disorienting. I have no idea how this passed marketing tests.
Nintendo's first big mistake. |
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2008-03-18 04:42:31.0
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After producing many games for early home videogame consoles, Sega decided to develop a console system of its own. The SG-1000 and Mark III were available in Japan in the mid-1980s, but when Sega witnessed the early success of the Nintendo Entertainment System, the company knew it wanted a share of the American console market. |
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Another add on for the Sega Genesis. Over
400,000 of these systems were sold.
Doom was probably the best game on the
system. This system was by far the
cheapest leap into the 32 bit generation. |
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2008-03-18 04:44:56.0
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It seemed like such a good idea... and for a while, it was. Sega wasn't the first to bring CD
technology to the American market -- that would have been NEC with its Turbo CD. But it
was the first to make the technology stick. The Sega CD was introduced as an add-on to
the highly successful Genesis that would play games, as well as music and CD+Graphics
discs. My roomate bought one. It was pretty cool back then. The really good games were
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2008-02-18 07:57:10.0
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The sega saturn had two hitachi sh2 cpu's running at 28.6mhz apiece
for a total of 56 mips persecond thats more than the ps1's 30 mips but most software developers were
either unalble to harness the raw processing power or didnt know how to use them to get this performance
also the saturn has a 2xcdrom,2MB ram,1MB vram,512KB sound ram and the saturns main ram was
expandible to 6MB with the use of and external cartridge that was used for some of capcoms fighting games. |
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Owners of this beast may have remembered all of the strange controllers and gadgets that were available. Some included the sports trackball controller among others. |
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The 64 began life its design life in January of 1981 when MOS Technology engineers decided they needed a new chip project. |
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A system that was destined to fail. |
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Atari tried to answer Nintendo and Sega with it's 64 bit powerhouse. It never had a chance against the mighty Mario and Sonic. |
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2008-02-18 07:51:32.0
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The Atari 5200 SuperSystem premiered in 1982, and was the successor to the Atari 2600 which
dominated the first wave of cartridge-based home videogame systems. The 5200 offered improved
graphics and several features not found on any other system during its time. |
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The Atari 7800 was released in 1986 to compete with the NES and the Sega Master System. It was to late for the once powerful Atari Corp.
The really cool thing about this system, is that it is compatible with all 2600 games. |
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If any one company seemed poised to commandeer control of the video game industry from Nintendo, it was NEC. |
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Neo Geo tried again to enter the American videogame market and failed.
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As the first 32-bit games system releases, 3DO has had the biggest lead time of all. But the
two year old console couldn't compete with the next generation. |
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2004-03-16 00:39:23.0
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Game Gear Goes Everywhere So You Can Play
In the Car, On the Bus, or Waiting in Line |
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In the late 80's Nintendo ruled the gaming world with it's famous NES system. However, a lesser known company called Sega was about to change everything. |
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During the Fourth Generation, Nintendo had dominated the industry
with control of 85 to 90 percent of the market on both sides of the
Pacific. They had ruled supreme. Smaller video game companies
feared and respected them, none with the clout to usurp their
autocracy. This made Nintendo executives feel their company
was imperishable. Concerning this, Sheff wrote, "Nintendo ...
suffered from a malaise typical of industry leaders. Fat and happy,
it had been lulled into a sense of invulnerability. Yamauchi
and Arakawa felt they didn't have to react to competitors simply
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The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in America in 1985, after some limited success in
Japan as the Famicom. Over the next few years, its user base would grow exponentially until the NES
surpassed the Atari VCS/2600 peak set in 1982. As of 1990, there were over 19 million NES systems
in the United States alone. |
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2008-02-18 08:04:15.0
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Experience a quatum leap in graphics realism with the Nintendo 64 System. Realtime rendering and awesome anti-aliased graphics create a heart-pumping virtual gaming world! Experience unsurpassed 64-bit Graphics and CD quality sound running at an awesome 94mhz. |
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Nintendo's latest innovation, code-named Nintendo DS, provides users with a unique game-play experience using features never before offered by any other home console or hand-held game system. This portable personal entertainment and communications unit provides new perspectives on dual screens, new control using both touch and voice, and new connections with 2 kinds of wireless gameplay. |
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With stunning 3D graphics, 128-bit processing, and sophisticated 3D audio capabilities, Dreamcast delivers the most immersive and compelling gaming experience available. This ultimate game machine hooks you up to the world via a built-in 56K modem. Surf the web and
battle it out in an online showdown. |
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