Philips, having bought Magnavox in 1974, developed some variations of Magnavox Odyssey’s models as well. Similarly, Magnavox persisted on with a few more upgraded consoles of its own, but they were inherently Pong consoles that play Pong-based games. Coleco had consoles for playing shooting, car racing and pinball games. Mattel introduced its Intellivision console in 1979, which actually intimidated Atari 2600 with its exceptional capabilities.Ĭoleco continued with its line of consoles of all sorts, in an attempt to pit against the mighty Atari 2600. Bally Astrocade came about in 1977 and was celebrated for its superior graphic capabilities.įor some reason, it did not last long.
Once again, there were a few newcomers to the market but they were met with limited success. These consoles essentially followed in the footsteps of Atari and featured Pong-style games.
#THE DAY BEFORE CONSOLE SERIES#
The Color TV Game Series were only for sale in Japan. Nintendo, the company which eventually became a major player in the video gaming industry for the next three decades, delivered their first series of video game console from 1977 to 1979. As a result of its popularity, a number of fresh consoles from Coleco soon sprang up in the market from 1977-78.Ītari Sears Tele-Games Pong System (1975) The Wonder Wizard by General Home Products was even said to be pretty much the same as the Odyssey 300 by Magnavox, other than having better and larger paddle controllers.įairchild and RCA didn’t meet with much success with their first and only consoles while Coleco’s first video game system, Telstar, was well-received for its capability to play games in colour and for having different difficulty levels. New companies such as Fairchild, RCA and Coleco also jumped on the bandwagon, creating consoles of their own to grab a piece of the pie. Unsurprisingly, Atari came up with new consoles such as the highly-acclaimed Atari 2600, Video Pinball and Stunt Cycle to compete with Magnavox. The consoles basically had the same games within, but with some modification to the graphics, controllers and digital on-screen scoring. In that same year, Magnavox decided to improve its Odyssey system and released not one, but two different improved versions of the original console, the Magnavox Odyssey 100 and 200.įrom 1976-77, a series of Magnavox Odyssey consoles were produced, with each new console only slightly better than the previous one. Just as the earliest films do not feature recorded sound, the first video game console is silent as well, with graphics which we would consider very primitive by today’s standard.Ītari’s PONG arcade machine was so popular in 1973 that Atari decided to market the game as a home console two years later in 1975. The demonstration of the "Brown Box" led to the licensing of the technology by Magnavox in 1972, resulting in the release of the first official home video game console – Magnavox Odyssey. There were only six simple games for the console, namely ping-pong, tennis, handball, volleyball, chase games and a light-gun game.
Baer, also known as "The Father of Video Games", he developed the brown video game console such that it can be hooked up with any ordinary TV sets.
The first video game console (working prototype) debuted as a bulky rectangular brown wooden box with two attached controllers, and thus the name "Brown Box". Over the past few decades, video games have been refined by graphical enhancements, increased processor speed of video. Whether you’re a gamer or not, this is a great opportunity for you to go behind the scene and uncover the ‘making’ of present-day consoles!
If you are amazed by such facts, then I guarantee that this entry will excite you even further with the bits and pieces of fascinating historical facts across the video game consoles timeline. Did you know that there were more than 70 different consoles to date? And did you know that there was a peak era of video arcade game when Nintendo and Sega were fiercely pitting against each other with their revolutionary consoles? In a way, the aggressive competition between companies of video game consoles had churned out the superior features of video gaming to bring to us the excellent quality we see today.Īs you shall see below, the evolution of video game consoles is indeed intriguing. We can now play affordable games of high calibre with 3D graphics and awesome interactivity in the comfort of our home, taking for granted the little and subtle improvements made to each and every consoles before becoming what they are today. Video gaming has come a long way since the early days of Pong and Pac-man.
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