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The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console. It is a black, white, and brown box that connects to a television box. It also comes with two controllers that connect to the box by wires.  It can display three square dots and one line of different height on the screen in black and white. The dots do different things depending on the game played. Players place plastic over the screen to show other visual elements for each game.

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Home Pong was originally made with over 100 wires but Allan Alcorn and Lee figured out how to make the game have just a single chip. The maker of Odyssey sued the makers of pong for copying his game even though they improved the technology.

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The Atari 2600 was introduced in 1977 but sales really soared in the 80's. It was the first popular console that had the ability to accept game cartridges. Each time you put in a different cartridge, you could play a different game. The Atari 2600 was not the first console to have this feature but it was the first one to sell well. The Atari 2600 helped general-purpose hardware and separate software become popular.

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The Intellivison was released in 1979 by Mattel gaming. It was a game that hooked up to the television set. It was a competitor of the Atari but it never became as popular. The Intellivison however, was one of the first at home gaming consoles to offer competitive audio effects and graphics. For example, when you play the golf game you can hear the sound of the swing and striking and you also get a more realistic 3-D look.

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The Coleco company released the ColecoVision console to compete with the Atari and Intellivison. They added on special hardware that expands the console's capacity. It allows you to play games from other companies. One of the Coleco games, Turbo, came with a driving controller(a steering wheel and gas pedal). The controllers plug into the controller port and are compatible with other games that the Coleco sells cartridges for.

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The Nintendo Entertainment System was first released in Japan in 1983. It was originally called the Famicom. It then came over to the United States in 1985. The makers of the NES used the chip from the ColecoVision to analysis it so they could make an even better chip. The original model for the Famicom  used 5.3-inch-wide cartridges and had two hardwired controllers that could be stored in slots on the side of the device even though they were permanently wired to the console. On the second model(the NES), the controllers were removable from the game and it had an integrated microphone in place of its start and select buttons.

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The Sega Genesis, also known as the Mega Drive, was released in Japan in 1988 but was released in the United States in 1989. The controller connects to the console via USB. The Sega Genesis was one of the top five arcade manufacturers in the U.S. because of games like Mortal Kombat and Sonic.

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The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo for short, was released 7 years after the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Super Nintendo came out with advanced graphics and more advanced sound capabilities compared to other gaming consoles at the time. It was designed to go with the variety of enhancement chips that were being developed at the time. The chips were put into the game cartridges so that the console would still be relevant and able to compete with the next generation of home video game consoles.

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The Mega Drive Genesis 2 was released by Sega in 1993. This console is smaller than the original Genesis and had a lighter weight. This console offered AV stereo sound output and a less expensive main board.

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The PlayStation was first released in 1994. It helped the game console industry switch from cartridges to compact discs. The PlayStation offered 3-D graphics and more complex games.

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The Nintendo 64 was introduced in 1996. It was one of the first consoles to use a 64-bit processor which gave the game better and more 3-D graphics then any Nintendo product had ever seen before.

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The PlayStation 2 is the successor to the PlayStation 1 that was released six years prior. This console had a DVD playback feature that was a big selling point at the time. You could also play the games from the PS1 on it, due to its backward capability, so it would not be a waste of money.

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In 2001, Microsoft joined the video game industry and was a huge help in starting the "console wars". The Xbox introduced the Xbox Live that made it so players could compete with friends and others online.

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The Xbox 360 was released 4 years after the orginal Xbox to compete with the Sony and the Playstations. It had improved graphics and wireless controllers.

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Instead of entering the console war between Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo came out with a family friendly active game. The Wii was released in 2006. It used motion to play games instead of buttons and joysticks. The game comes with a monitor to sense the motion of the player's hand held remote.

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The PlayStation 3, also known as The PS3, was released by Sony to compete with the Xbox 360. It was the first console to use Blu-Ray disc technology as its main storage unit. It could also be controlled from one of Sony's hand held consoles such as the PlayStation Portable and the PlayStation Vita.

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The Xbox 1 was introduced in 2013. Instead of using the hardware they used for the Xbox 360, Microsoft used the same hardware they used in their first console just more advanced. It allows players to record and share videos and screenshot images from the game. It can play Blu-Rays discs and broadcast live television programs. The console also comes with a sensor that can sense motion and it has voice recognition.