How Video Game consoles have grown in the past two decades

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.

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

  •  1992
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    • - 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

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

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