By definition home video games use video displays (ordinary TV sets or TV monitors). In here you can find all kinds of systems starting from the first system
Odyssey to the latest ones, as
Xbox and
GameCube. Also handheld video game systems are listed in here.
What doesn''t belong here:
Here you will find links to many of the best 3DO sites on the net. These sites are related to the 3DO console video game system and not the current line of 3DO home computer games. Unfortunately, the 3DO Company no longer supports the 3DO console system as they have since moved on to make games for other computer and video game systems.
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The CD32 was the first 32-bit CD game console on the market. It was released in 1993 along with the next generation consoles of the time, 3DO and the Atari Jaguar 64.
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Atari is a term in a Japanese board game called Go and has an equivalent meaning to saying Chess in a Chess game. The Atari logo - the Fuji - represents the Fujiama mountain in Japan.
Atari was founded on June 27th 1972 by Nolan Bushnell. First shipped video game system was an arcade game called Pong, in 1973.
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This category is for sites about the Bally Astrocade system.
This classic system was introduced in 1977 by Bally/Midway as a home video game system.
It was brought back in around 1981 as the Bally Computer System.
The CD-i is a system for presenting information such as text, images, and video, on a TV screen.
The standard was defined by Philips and Sony and is described in the Green Book. It was designed to play games, educational software, and movies. It was never a great success though Philips supported it for many years with a respectable amount, but no breakthrough titles.
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Sites where gamers from all over the world can interact with each other to share views, gaming tips, and reviews for consoles.
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Title: Name of Site or Organization
Description: This describes the website and should note distinguishing features found on the site without the use of hype, personal pronouns, or repetitive terms.
Contains sites which provide cheats, hints, frequently asked questions (FAQs), walk-throughs, strategy guides, and achievement lists, for console-based and hand-held gaming platforms.
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Generally, a classic system is one that is over 10 years old.
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Sites relating to the Coleco ColecoVision console. Coleco is a shorter version from Connecticut Leather Company.
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Developed by VTech in 1981 the Creativision is a hybrid computer and console with built in controllers similar to the Colecovision. Mainly distributed in Europe, South Africa and Australia.
Video game console system that is actually a PC optimized to play PC Games.
Game.com is a handheld video game system developed by Tiger Toys. It was released in 1997 and was targeted to more mature audience with its popular
licenses like Duke Nukem and Resident Evil 2. The system was on the market for 2 years and managed only 20 titles.
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The Indrema video game console uses the Linux operating system, and is being promoted as an all-in-one home entertainment system.
The Indrema project has been cancelled as of 04/09/2001.
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Sites relating to the Mattel Intellivision system.
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The Konix Multisystem was an unreleased game console by British computer peripheral company Konix. It was widely announced in the computing press in 1989, and was intended to follow the success of the company's range of joysticks. The console resembled a dashboard-style games controller, and could be configured with a steering wheel, a flight yoke, and motorbike handles. Konix promised advanced features such as a hydraulic chair and force feedback steering wheel.
The company that marketed the first home video game system. A quote from
Ralph Baer:
I came up with the concept of playing games on a standard TV set or TV monitor in September of 1966. The idea was to make an alternate, interactive use of tens of millions of home TV sets then in homes world-wide. The final equipment we built at Sanders Associates in 1967 (the "Brown Box") was licensed to Magnavox in 1970 and appeared as the Odyssey 1TL200 on the market in the US in May of 1972. Approximately one-hundred-thousand of these video game systems were sold that year by Magnavox. There was invention, development of the idea, marketing of the idea and follow through to see it into significant production.
From PONG: Who did it first?.
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Contains sites whose main focus are to provide information, news, reviews, previews, articles, and fora about video games on console platforms.
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Nintendo is the name of the leading video game company; it has created some of the best selling games ever, including the Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda series.
The Nintendo 64 (N64) and Game Boy / Game Boy Color (GB/GBC) are the two Nintendo systems on the market right now. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) have died graceful deaths, and the ill-famed Virtual Boy (VB) was dead before it started, sadly.
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Nintendo's newest consoles are the GameCube, and an upgraded Game Boy system, called Game Boy Advance.
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The NUON chip was developed by VM Labs for DVD-Players. The NUON chip replaces the MPEG-2 decoder in a DVD-Player and allows for greater DVD functionality and the support for Video Games.
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Sites about the Phantom game console developed by Infinium Labs.
Sites dealing with video game systems developed under Philips. The merge of Magnavox and Philips in 1974 meant that the Odyssey² was released and marketed under Philips.
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This is for general information about Sega and their games.
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SNK is an abbreviation for Shin Nihon Kikaku.
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These sites are dealing with Sony Computer Entertainment's console platforms. At the moment there are two platforms on the market; PlayStation and PlayStation 2. There is also PSOne, which is a smaller version of the first PlayStation.
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Sites devoted to the many aspects of this unique video game system of the early 80's. It uses vector graphics. The company behind Vectrex is Milton Bradley.
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Japanese Bandai is the creator of the WonderSwan Color handheld gaming system.
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