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The Fairchild Channel F. The Fairchild Channel F is a home video game console released by Fairchild Camera and Instrument in November 1976. [1] It has the distinction of being the first programmable ROM cartridge–based video game console, and the first console to use a microprocessor.
TIC-80 is a free and open-source fantasy video game console for making, playing, and sharing games on a limited platform that mimics the 8-bit systems of the 1980s. It has built-in code, sprite, map, music, and sound effect editors, as well as a command line interface that allow users to develop and edit games within the fantasy console. [4] [5]
Plug-&-Play TV Games is a series of plug-n-play game devices produced by Jakks Pacific. When connected to a television set via RCA connector cables, the user is able to play a pre-defined selection of video games. [1] Some models are collections of ports of games by companies such as Atari and Namco, while others are collections of original ...
SG-1000 II, Master System, Mega Drive/Genesis and Pico consoles, Game Gear handheld game console: Based on Texas Instruments SN76496. Integrated into the Yamaha YM2217, Yamaha YM2602, and Yamaha YM7101 VDP chips. In Mega Drive/Genesis, it is both secondary to the Yamaha YM2612 FM chip and for Master System mode. [35] Yamaha YM3439 (SSGC) 1991 3
With more than 101 million units sold, the Nintendo Wii is the best-selling home video game console in the seventh generation. The release of the Xbox 360 began the seventh generation. Video game consoles had become an important part of the global IT infrastructure by the mid-2000s. It was estimated that video game consoles represented 25% of ...
ColecoVision is a second-generation home video-game console developed by Coleco and launched in North America in August 1982. It was released a year later in Europe by CBS Electronics as the CBS ColecoVision. The console offered a closer experience to more powerful arcade video games compared to competitors such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision.
A smaller version, the Game.com Pocket Pro, was released in mid-1999. The first version of the Game.com can be connected to a 14.4 kbit/s modem for Internet connectivity, [5] hence its name referencing the top level domain .com. [6] It was the first video game console to include a touchscreen and the first handheld console to include Internet ...
The Ultravision Video Arcade System (VAS) was an unreleased gaming console announced at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show. [1] The slogan provided by the company, "It's a COMPUTER, It's a COLOR TV, It's an ARCADE.", was intended to demonstrate that the console combines a game system, a colour TV and a personal computer system.