A Brief History of Game Console Warfare

conq writes "BusinessWeek has a gallery on the history of console wars. Starting with the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, all the way to the 2006 Wii. The details on the Magnavox Odyssey: 'This is where it all began. Game guru Ralph Baer's invention for Magnavox brought video gaming out of the arcades and into the living room. As the first home video game console, the Odyssey had no audio output and could only display black and white images. But the system came with translucent TV screen overlays to simulate full-color graphics in games like tennis and hockey. The Odyssey's sales were less than impressive: Magnavox had sold about 350,000 units by 1975.'"

Comments

To riff on PA

[Control Group]

[Nostalgic "I remember when" comment]

[Criticism of modern gaming and gamers]

[Self-deprecating witticism]

[Trite conclusion]

Re:To riff on PA

[AKAImBatman]

PROFIT!

I used to work for Intellivision

[Anonymous Coward]

In the late 80s I had pleasure to work for Mattel in the electronic branch, based near Kansas City. We were at the leading edge, creating games such as M.U.L.E., Turbo, the Zelda clone Guinea Sisters, and of course Pac-Man.

Steve Wozniak used to work for Intellivision briefly at the beginning of the company and he created the games Enduro, Street Fighter and Double Dribble.

I now find that there are lot of people buying those retro consoles on eBay.

Which is nice.

Re:Cotton Candy, get yer Cotton Candy!

[WilliamSChips]

the SG-1000

Well, duh, everybody knows that SG teams with numbers greater than 1 only appear to further the plot! :P