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The year's best‑selling home system was the Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom) for the sixth year in a row, while the year's best-selling home video games were Super Mario Bros. 3 in Japan and RoboCop in the United Kingdom.
1989, 1998 38.2 million Game Boy Advance: Handheld Nintendo: 2001 36.3 million Nintendo Entertainment System: Home Nintendo: 1985 <34 million [7] PlayStation: Home Sony: 1995 30.4 million PlayStation 3: Home Sony: 2006 26.7 million [40] PlayStation Portable: Handheld Sony: 2005 20.2 million Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Home Nintendo ...
Sony's PlayStation 2 is the best-selling game system overall with over 160 million units worldwide. [1] A video game console is a standardized computing device tailored for video gaming. The compact size of video game consoles allows them to be easily used in a variety of locations, making them portable. [2]
The list of video game consoles is split into the following articles: List of dedicated video game consoles; List of handheld game consoles; List of home video game consoles. List of video game consoles by generation; List of first generation home video game consoles; List of microconsoles; List of video game console emulators
In 1989, however, Compute! reported that Nintendo's popularity caused most computer-game companies to have poor sales during Christmas that year, resulting in serious financial problems for some, [22] and after more than a decade making computer games, in 1989 Epyx converted completely to console cartridges. [23]
A home video game console is a pre- designed piece of electronic hardware that is meant to be placed at a fixed location at one's home, connected to a display like a television screen or computer monitor, and to an external power source, to play video games on using one or more video game controllers.
The Atari home video game system took the late1970s and early 1980s by storm, complete with faux wood paneling and a classic joystick with a big red button. Rival systems eventually surpassed the ...
This is a list of retro style video game consoles in chronological order. Only officially licensed consoles are listed. Only officially licensed consoles are listed. Starting in the 2000s, the trend of retrogaming spawned the launch of several new consoles that usually imitate the styling of pre-2000s home consoles and only play games that ...