dvdsteve2000

At work, my friend and I have been discussing the older game systems and when they came out. He's about ten years younger than I am, I'm 34, so I tend to remember some dates a little better than he does, but I'm not sure if we're correct or not.

A complete list would be awesome, but we're especially looking for these:

Video Odyssey(I think that's what it was called)-pong/handball, etc...
Atari 2600/5200/7800/Jaguar
Nintendo/SNES?N64
Playstation
Sega(original)/Genesis/CD/
Colecovision
3-DO


Thanks in advance if anyone has some info

Buckaroo Banzai

Maybe this might help?

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/

seems pretty comprehensive.

Ian

ike0000

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/

dvdsteve2000

Wow, sorry, that was easier than I thought it would be. Here's the list that I found:

1972-Magnavox Odyssey 100
1975-Atari Pong/Magnavox Odyssey 200
1976-Coleco Telestar/Fairchild/Zircon Channel F
1977- RCA Studio II/Atari Tank/Atari Video Pinball/Atari 2600/Bally Astrocade
1978-Magnavox Odyssey^2
1979-Mattel Intellivision
1980-APF M1000/MP1000/Imagination Machine
1981-
1982-Milton Bradley Microvision/Entex Adventurevision GCE/Milton Bradley Vectrex/Emerson Arcadia 2001/Atari 5200/Colecovision/Zircon Channel F II
1983-Mattel Intellivision II/Mattel Aquarius/Coleco ADAM/Ultravision Video Arcade System/Nintendo Famicom/Nintendo NES
1984-
1985-INTV System III
1986-Sega Master System/Atari 7800
1987-Mattel Captain Power/Atari XE Videogame System/Worlds of Wonder Action Max
1988-
1989-Konix Multi-System/NEC TurboGrafx-16/Sega Genesis/Nintendo Gameboy/Atari Lynx
1990-SNK Neo-Geo/NEC TurboExpress/NEC TurboGrafx-16/Sega GameGear
1991-Nintendo Super Famicom/SNES
1992-Phillips CD-i
1993-3DO/Atari Jaguar
1994-Sega 32X
1995-Sega Saturn/Nintendo VirtualBoy/Sony Playstation/Sega Nomad
1996-Nintendo N64/SNK Neo-Geo CDZ

TheBang

We did a good timeline with prices ourselves a couple months back in this thread:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...0&pagenumber=2

Derrich

I dont think the Konix multi-system was ever actually released.

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tor_greg

WIRED did a great piece on the history of video games a few months ago.

Groucho

Go here:

http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/index.htm

It's a great history, well-written and concise. But set aside a few hours before you start reading!