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The video game console industry nonetheless continued to thrive alongside home computers, due to the advantages of much lower prices, easier portability, circuitry specifically dedicated towards video games, the ability to be played on a television set (which PCs of the time could not do in most cases), and intensive first party software ...
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...
The consoles were generally patterned on Home Pong, a game console released by Atari, Inc. in 1975. Unisonic released its first console in 1976: the Unisonic Sportsman T101, which featured four selectable video games, two linear paddle controllers, and a light gun. Unisonic followed the Sportsman with a series of variations through 1976 and ...
VTech Creativision - Dark Watcher's Console History at the Wayback Machine (archived September 26, 2009) Video Game Console Library database entry; 20th Century Retro Games entry (Gallery page for many VTech CreatiVision models and regional variants.) Retrospective: A Tale Of Dick Smith’s Wizzard (AUSRETROGAMER E-Zine. May 9, 2016 By Aaron ...
In 2008, Mikel Reparaz of GamesRadar+ included the R-Zone on a list of the 10 worst game consoles released up to that time. Reparaz considered the R-Zone to be a poor version of Nintendo's Virtual Boy and stated that it was essentially "just a gimmicky version of the same awful, clicky-beepy LCD games that Tiger had been dumping on the market ...
Starting from the PP-5, there was a new slot to which an optical gun could be connected to play a new aiming game. This accessory is called Gun-O-Tronic (stylized as gun • o • tronic). [3] The only other known consoles at the time which allowed the user to play aiming games were the Magnavox Odyssey and Philips Tele-Game ES 2201. [4]
In the 1980s, video games in East Germany were to introduce children and young people to technology and show that the GDR was a progressive country. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The BSS 01 was manufactured between 1979 [ 4 ] and 1981 [ 5 ] by the to the Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt belonging VEB Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder) [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] as a ...
Displays video game console information. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Generation Generation One of All, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, or Other. String optional Examples {{Video game consoles}} gives: