A Brief History of Game Console Warfare

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 19, 2006 @09:35AM from the long-have-we-fought-and-many-have-died dept.

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.'"

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To riff on PA by Control+Group · 2006-10-19 09:43 · Score: 4, Funny

[Nostalgic "I remember when" comment]

[Criticism of modern gaming and gamers]

[Self-deprecating witticism]

[Trite conclusion]

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1. Re:To riff on PA by AKAImBatman · 2006-10-19 10:00 · Score: 2, Funny
  
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Re:Cotton Candy, get yer Cotton Candy! by WilliamSChips · 2006-10-19 10:30 · Score: 2, Funny

the SG-1000
Well, duh, everybody knows that SG teams with numbers greater than 1 only appear to further the plot! :P

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