49 Years Of Video Game Consoles in 10 Minutes
49 Years Of Video Game Consoles in 10 Minutes
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Believe it or not, the home video game console has been around for nearly 49 years. Yes, that’s almost half a century. Since 1972, we’ve seen over 30 consoles created and sold in North America, which is a ridiculous amount of consoles. That’s an average of more than one console released every two years. Back in the early ‘70s, Nintendo was still about half a decade away from making their first console and the PlayStation and Xbox weren’t even a thought yet. Gaming has come a very long way since then so I’ll be taking a look at every home console ever released in North America.
The first console ever released was the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. It was the only first generation console to be released in North America. In the second generation, we got the famous Atari 2600, best known for the legendary game, Space Invaders. The third generation was known as the 8-bit generation and introduced us to the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System. The fourth generation had the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System doing battle. As for the fifth generation, it saw a major shakeup. The Sony PlayStation joined the battle alongside the Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn.
There’s more consoles to get into than just those so enjoy the video, let me know what you think is the best console of all time in the comments section below and don’t forget to subscribe to TheGamer for more gaming tech content.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:37 1st Generation
1:22 2nd Generation
2:22 3rd Generation
3:16 4th Generation
4:28 5th Generation
5:59 6th Generation
7:27 7th Generation
8:38 8th Generation
9:56 9th Generation
Written by: Justin Pietrodarchi
Narrated by: Antony Watkins
Edited by: Umair G.
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2:37 also known as the video game bite of 83
6:05 dreamcast wasnt released in 1995 it was relreased in 1998
You skipped over the numerous Pong consoles released in the first generation, which would bring the total number of consoles released in the US market WAY over thirty.
You forgot the colecovision and the CDI. Also dont just gloss over the saturn, its got some great games if you do more than 10 seconds of looking.
North America Crash of 83 was briefly mention ik its only 10 minutes but it could of made this video 2 mins long
This channel have a big set of balls to call themselves The Gamer
Lol i still use a ps3 slim
Missing a few 2nd generation systems. Colecovision, Vectrex, and Intellivision II. Not sure if it it would fit the list, but there was also the Tandy and C64 systems. There are a few others but do not recall them at the moment.
Currently I have all 3 consoles from the 7th generation! They are the only consoles I have but I love them so much!
at the end of the 4th gen the audio cut out
The switch is 9th gen, not 8th gen
The Atari is the 1st ever console, not the Odyssey.
I just realised you missed out Stadia. Does that count. It’s basically the same as a thing called GameFly which used to be built into me tv but got patched out. 🙁 I was just about to try it then found Samsung removed the game section. :’(
Also there is the nvidia shield tv which shares the same internals as the Switch. Yes, the Switch is an nvidia shield is a Switch. Also Amazon Fire usb stick/console also plays game’s.
Also my tv used to play games.
Honestly, I think the next generation will all be streaming. The latest consoles are you gigantic, that little Japanese man looked like a tiny imp next to the PS5 Buck Rogers space-tower unit.
Erm, the NES is crap. Games are not better than Master System games. The problem with the SMS was Tonka did not promote it and shops which sold NES consoles were not allowed to also sell Master System consoles. So Nintendo cheated quite badly.
The Master System is still on sale in Brazil.
Genesis was market leader in North America, selling double the software units and outselling SNES consoles, not counting add-ons.
So Sega ‘wins’ 8-bit and 16-bit hens with better hardware and software and overall sales (historically).
SNES nearly failed completely of Capcom hadn’t made such a good port of Street Fighter 2 and made it exclusive for over a year. SNES graphics can be good but overall they suffer from being simple in terms of on screen action and sound also tended to be quite low quality due to memory limitations using sampled sound exclusively.
I was able to get the Series X during preorder. I didn’t get a PS5 till right before Christmas.
What about Coleco vision
The Sega Saturn is the first online system
Colecovision?
I think Microsoft is gonna buy Nintendo soon
Here in indonesia the ps5 is out i saw it in a gamer plaza
Ps1 vs N64. One of if not the biggest rivalry of the 90s
Video:*in 10 minutes!*
Also video: **its 11 minutes**
Me:hol up
the switch pro, i hope its gonna be 90-120 fps.
i mean it wASNT RELEASED IN 1999
Talks about SNES, shows NES.
Talks about Square Enix, shows random racing game.
Ok.
Is it just me or did he forget the color tv game consoles by Nintendo in 1977
My 1st console was the Atari 2600 in 1991
Lolololol the video was actually 11:31 not 10:00
All it takes is a quick google search to find out the first video game was released in 1958 you dumb ass.
TheGamer: And Nintendo released the Wii.
*Shows Wii U*
I’m not saying he Wii U is bad cause it’s great
why u said ps1 was launched in 1995 it was released in 1994 u idiot
just got a xbox 360 yesterday lol
thx from my cousin
You’re kidding, right? About the Genesis? You do know that it outsold the SNES in the US. The SNES also had a slower processor than the Genesis (they said so that it wouldn’t be too expensive for consumers)
Why say 10 min when the Video is Actually 11 min
You need a new video editor.
1:26 Damn you, that was good!
You missed out the Amiga CD-32
Theres some serious favoritism going on with these people
Missing the best console of the 2nd gen – the Colecovision.
How did your channel die off
The disc the gamecube used was a 1.5 gb optical disc
What qualifies the Odyssey² as "pretty good"? In my experience of playing its games it was a lot of things, but "good" isn’t one of them.
You forgot colecovision and Atari 5200 you bozo
You forget the colovision
I use pc
for gaming but i have ps4
Wow