From a technical aspect, all its game programs were practically the same with slight variations. Gameplay variation came more from the peripherals included with the Odyssey than from the game programs themselves. Players had to stick giant overlays onto the TV screen to simulate a different scenario and read the instructions manual carefully to understand the rules of each game.
The Odyssey did not keep score, have sound, or anything in the way of graphics, for that matter. In , people really had to use their imagination and definitely the honor system to play a successful game on the console. Sometimes the first in a specific field rarely gets remembered. Catacombs 3D is considered to be the inaugural game in the first-person-shooter genre, but how many know DOOM as the holder of this title?
Both Sega and Nintendo dominated the video gaming scene in that decade. The first console ever released by Sega was the SG in It was not exactly well-known since it was mostly distributed in Asia and never launched in North America. However, that machine laid the foundation for its top-notch successor in , the Sega Master System. Nevertheless, the Nintendo Entertainment System NES revealed in emerged victorious as the best-selling console of that generation. It is even fair to say that the NES single-handedly raised Nintendo to a company easily identified with gaming.
Companies within the video game consoles market like Atari, Mattel and Coleco released new consoles, Atari , Intellivision II and ColecoVision, respectively, but these were not comparable with the popularity of Sega and Nintendo.
In fact, ColecoVision was the last home video game console Coleco released. They dominated the home video gaming market until they were dethroned by NES when it was introduced to the US and UK market a year after the video game industry crash. As a result of the crash, ColecoVision ended up as the last console released by Coleco. Meanwhile, a few new and unheard consoles were brought to the market by hopeful companies, only to be overwhelmed by the intense competition between the Sega Master System and NES.
Thanks Jared for pointing out the error in this paragraph. Vectrex ColecoVision Mattel Intellivision II Casio PV Sega SG Epoch Super Cassette Vision Sega Master System This was the major console war that occured in the 80s.
Atari was slowly slipping out of the console market despite yet another undertaking in its latest system, the Atari The draw was that it offered backward compatibility with the phenomenal Atari , allowing players to enjoy classic games of the past.
An enhanced version, the SuperGrafx , was also not well-received. SNK Neo Geo, already famous for its arcade machines production, went ahead to bring the arcade experience to home video game consoles in The Neo Geo AES Advanced Entertainment System was equipped with remarkable graphics thanks to the larger size of the games, which consequently led to the pricey tag the console costs more than dollars, while each game piece over dollars.
Atari NEC TurboGrafx NEC SuperGrafx Super Nintendo Entertainment System In the first few years of s, there is a notable shift in the medium used for storing games from cartridges to compact discs. What this meant was that there were increased capacities for video gaming, prompting as well a transition of 2D graphics to that of 3D. Regrettably, the console was more commonly recognized as a failure for its sub-standard games and frustrating controllers. It then found itself losing the console battle with more advanced next generation console like the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation a year later.
Commodore, a US-based home computer manufacturer, gained entry into the market with its very own Amiga CD32 Sadly, it was only for a brief few months before Commodore declared bankrupcy in , thus prematurely ending the sales of a video game console with some potential. NEC TurboDuo Atari Jaguar Commodore Amiga CD32 In , Sony finally made its entrance with the leading Playstation. It also developed an entirely new console, Saturn, to rival against the rest of the CD-based consoles.
Nintendo, on the other hand, stuck to its cartridge system for its new Nintendo In , Sony released a more powerful version of its console, called the Playstation 4 Pro, the first console capable of 4K video output. In early , Nintendo released its Wii U successor, the Nintendo Switch, the only system to allow both television-based and handheld gaming. Microsoft will release its 4K-ready console, the Xbox One X, in late With their new revamped consoles, both Sony and Microsoft currently have their sights set on virtual reality gaming, a technology that has the potential to change the way players experience video games.
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