It was in this year where the Nintendo Entertainment System was developed and released. Atari and Magnavox suffered from having too many badly developed games, which explains why Nintendo became a very popular gaming brand in this era. Both companies continued to make games for their respective game consoles until the second game console crash of 1983. Released in 1977, it would become so popular that it was the only console asides from Magnavox to survive the first game console crash of 1977. The console doesn’t have any controllers though in fact, the console looks like a controller itself, so you could probably say that’s the grandfather of all handheld television games. In 1975, Atari came up with its own game console along with Pong, a game that would remain a popular concept until now. It was also the first when it comes to console peripherals as you can buy a light gun that you can connect to the console when playing shooting games. It was indeed an innovation as it was the first video game that can be connected to a television set. A few years later, Ralph Baer successfully made the “Brown Box”, which is considered as the great grandfather of all video game consolesĪ few years later, Magnavox decided to invest on video games and made the very first video game console called the Magnavox Oddysey. He showed the idea to his new boss, R&D owner Herbert Campman, he was given some funding and his project was taken by the company as an official one. In 1966, he successfully developed a game called “Chase” where two dots chased each other around the screen. This was in 1951 while building television sets for Loral in Bronx, New York. All except for one Ralph Baer who conceived one absurd idea the ability to interact with your television, which includes playing games on it. The idea of playing games in front of the television was considered absurd and a thing of the future. In any case, let’s start our blast from the past as I take you back from the humble beginnings of our beloved video game consoles. I had this notion that my old console was the very first produced, so I guess it was indeed worth the time researching about video game consoles. To my surprise, I realized that the very first console I had back when I was a kid wasn’t exactly the “first game console”. And since I didn’t have anything good to do today, I decided to do some research about the complete history of video game consoles. With this in mind, I began to recall my early childhood memories when it comes to video games. My parents always tell me that video games weren’t exactly popular back in the days and that it was considered an idea of the future. Whenever I start playing a few games on my Xbox 360, I couldn’t help but wonder how it all came to be.
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