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The history of video game consoles, both home and handheld, began in the 1970s. The first console that played games on a television set was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, first conceived by Ralph H. Baer in 1966.
The Video Game Console Timeline is a list of video game consoles in Chronological order and the significance they had on the industry.
Baer, who’s sometimes referred to as Father of Video Games, licensed his device to Magnavox, which sold the system to consumers as the Odyssey, the first video game home console, in 1972. Over...
Main articles: History of video game consoles and Home video game console generations. The first video game consoles were produced in the early 1970s. Ralph H. Baer devised the concept of playing simple, spot-based games on a television screen in 1966, which later became the basis of the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972.
Generally, we could say that the first generation of commercial Video Game Consoles was developed between 1972 and 1978, with several companies competing to be the best in the market....
A brief history of video game consoles, from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Playstation 4, illustrated with videos from the BBC Archive.
Explore the history of video game consoles through a timeline that covers key moments and milestones in the industry.
This is a list of all game consoles, organized by decade of release. Please help improve the list and history write-ups by.
Exploring the evolution of home video games and consoles from the 1970s through present time.
Take a look back at the early generations of video game consoles in part one of our three-part video series. Hosted by Doug Aamoth, this installment features insight from Kotaku's Stephen Totilo, IGN's Greg Miller, Sony's Scott Rohde, and Video Games New York's Giulio Graziani.