How Video Game consoles have grown in the past two decades

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• TurboDuo
  

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• Atari Jaguar
  

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• Industry analyst Michael Pachter believes the downturn in the sale of video games can only be relieved by new gaming consoles hitting the market.
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• Nintendo GameCube
  

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• Gameboy Advance
  

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• Gameboy Advance
  

I still remember my first console-a Nintendo NES (101 model). Games like Tetris, The Legend of Kage, Contra and Excitebike occupied my time. Years later, I look back and am still amazed at my patience dealing with those ROM cartridges. Video games have come a very long way in two decades. The consoles we hold dear in our homes experienced quite a journey of transformation, to get to the stage they are at today.

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Let's dive right in to Memory Lane, shall we?

 

• - Turbo Technologies Inc. releases an 8-bit console called, TurboDuo

1993

• - Atari Jaguar is released
• - The Commodore Amiga CD32 is introduced and is the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console released in western Europe, Australia, Canada, and Brazil

1994

 

• - Sony releases Playstation
• - Sega Saturn is released

1995

• - Casio Loopy, a 32-bit video game console, which was sold exclusively in Japan and targeted for female gamers

1996

 

• - Nintendo 64 is released and is the most technologically advanced of the consoles in the fifth generation

1998

• - Nintendo introduces the Game Boy Color
• - Sega introduces the Dreamcast, which only lasted about a year and a half

2000

• - Playstation 2 is released

2001

 

• - The Game Boy Advance is introduced
• - Microsoft releases its first video game console, the Xbox
• - Nintendo GameCube is released

2003

• - Nintedo releases the Game Boy Advance SP and is the smallest video game platform

2004

• - Nintendo DS is released on November 21, 2004 in North America, with the presence of two separate LCD screens and wireless capability, as just a few distinct features

2005

 

• - Microsoft releases its second video game console, the Xbox 360
• - Sony presents the PlayStation Portable, also known as the PSP.

2006

• - Nintendo releases the Wii, and is the first home console Nintendo has marked outside of Japan without the company name featured in its trademark
•  Sony presents the PlayStation 3, or PS3.

2008

• - Nintendo DSi is released and introduces new features like digital cameras and connectivity to an online store called the Nintendo Dsi Shop

2009
 

• - The PSP Go is released on October 1, in North America
• - The Wii breaks record for best-selling console in a single month in the U.S

2010

• - Kinect for Xbox is released and the Guinness World Record holds it as being the "fastest selling consumer electronics device"
• - Sony presents the PlayStation Move

2011

• - PlayStation Vita, or PS Vita, is released
• - The Nintendo 3DS is released
• - Playstation 2 is the best-selling console of all-time, having sold over 150 million units as of January 31

2012

Wii U

• - The Wii U, by Nintendo, is an upcoming portable console and has been described as belonging to the eighth generation of video games.