Game system history

Despite the basic nature of the games by today's standards, the system marked a crucial change in the way people used their TVs. When plugging a cartridge into the console, internal diode logic circuits are interconnected in different ways to produce the desired result. As a matter of fact, the Odyssey contains everything to make a game based around a ball, one or two paddles representing the players, and a central or off-side vertical line which serves as a net or a wall.

There were a total of 23 games for the Magnavox Odyssey. All that were released in The controllers are two largish block sized controllers with a round dial on both sides of it. Turning the dial on the left for horizontal movement, and the right for vertical movement. Ball speed could also be controlled with it. The controller was a pale yellow color, with a wood look on the top of the controller.

The wire on it was very thick, and a brown color. The Game Boy was first introduced in as a pretty big, pretty plain, colorless portable game console. Four AA batteries got this puppy going for almost 20 hours of gameplay.

And the only way to get stereo sound off the Game Boy was if you plugged in some headphones only has one tiny speaker. The Lynx was a handheld game console released by Atari in The Lynx holds the distinction of being the world's first handheld electronic game with a color LCD display.

The system is also notable for its forward-looking features, advanced graphics, and ambidextrous layout. The Lynx was released in , the same year as Nintendo's monochromatic Game Boy. However, the Lynx failed to achieve the critical mass required to attract quality third party developers, and was eventually abandoned.

Work began on the console in under the codename "Project Mercury", as per Sega's policy at the time of codenaming their systems after planets.

Over titles were released worldwide for the Game Gear, although at the time of the console's launch there were only six software titles available. Sega made sure that a wide variety of video game genres were represented on the system, in order to give it a broad appeal. It is portable version of the TurboGrafx home console that came out 2—3 years earlier. The Watara Supervision is a monochrome handheld game console, originating from Hong Kong, and introduced in as a cut-price competitor for Nintendo's Game Boy.

It came packaged with a game called Crystball, which is similar to Breakout. The console has a slightly larger screen and larger buttons, and its games sold for far less than the Game Boy's. The games were simpler than the Game Boy's, and the console did not sell well. The original design for the console changed significantly through several iterations, and the last Supervisions were sold in The Mega Duck also known as Cougar Boy is a handheld game console that was produced by Hong Kong-based Welback Holdings through its Timlex International division and came on the market in Nintendo's Virtual Boy was the first portable game console capable of displaying "true 3D graphics.

In a manner similar to using a head-mounted display, the user places their face inside a pair of rubber goggles on the front of the machine, and then an eyeglass-style projector allows viewing of the monochromatic in this case, black and red image.

It met with a lukewarm reception that was unaffected by continued price drops. Nintendo discontinued it the following year. However lower than expected sales resulted in its discontinuation in , and was immediately succeeded by the Neo Geo Pocket Color. The system only had a retail release within the Japan and Hong Kong market. The Game. It featured many new ideas for handheld consoles and was aimed at an older target audience, sporting PDA-style features and functions such as a touch screen and stylus.

However, Tiger hoped it would also challenge Nintendo's Game Boy and gain a following among younger gamers too. Unlike other handheld game consoles, the first game. Later models reverted to a single cartridge slot. The Game Boy Color was a response to pressure from game developers for a new and much more sophisticated system of playing, as they felt that the Game Boy, even in its latest incarnation, the Game Boy Pocket, was insufficient.

The resultant product was backward compatible, a first for a handheld console system, and leveraged the large library of games and great installed base of the predecessor system. The original release had It was released in July in Japan as the Famicom Robot The Sega Master System is an 8-bit cartridge-based video game console that was manufactured by Sega and was first released in Its original The Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console released by Sega in Japan in and Europe in The console was released in Europe and The hardware featured It was the third commercially available color The Atari Jaguar is a video game console, released by Atari Corporation in In Japan, it was distributed under the name