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  2. History of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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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. Handheld consoles originated from electro-mechanical games that used mechanical controls and light-emitting diodes (LED) as visual ...

  3. First generation of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In the history of video games, the first generation era refers to the video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available from 1972 to 1983. Notable consoles of the first generation include the Odyssey series (excluding the Magnavox Odyssey 2 ), the Atari Home Pong, [1] the Coleco Telstar series and the Color TV ...

  4. History of Nintendo - Wikipedia

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    The last major first-party game for the NES, Super Mario Bros. 3, was released in early 1990 in North America, with more than 18 million units sold. [34] It was followed by a licensed television adaption named The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! , which was released by DIC Entertainment and Viacom Enterprises in that year to capitalize on the ...

  5. History of the Nintendo Entertainment System - Wikipedia

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    The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Brazil. The history of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) spans the 1982 development of the Family Computer, to the 1985 launch of the NES, to Nintendo's rise to global dominance based upon this platform throughout the late 1980s. The Family Computer or Famicom (ファミコン, Famikon) was ...

  6. Early history of video games - Wikipedia

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    The early history of video games, therefore, covers the period of time between the first interactive electronic game with an electronic display in 1947, the first true video games in the early 1950s, and the rise of early arcade video games in the 1970s ( Pong and the beginning of the first generation of video game consoles with the Magnavox ...

  7. Shigeru Miyamoto - Wikipedia

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    As Nintendo released its first home video game console, the Family Computer (rereleased in North America as the Nintendo Entertainment System), Miyamoto made two of the most popular titles for the console and in the history of video games as a whole: Super Mario Bros. (a sequel to Mario Bros.) and The Legend of Zelda (an entirely original title).

  8. Nintendo video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    North American version of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Released July 15, 1983, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Africa and was Nintendo's first home video game console released outside Japan.

  9. Game creation system - Wikipedia

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    A game creation system ( GCS) is a consumer-targeted game engine and a set of specialized design tools, and sometimes also a light scripting language, engineered for the rapid iteration of user-derived video games . Unlike more developer-oriented game engines, game creation systems promise an easy entry point for novice or hobbyist game ...