Entex Adventure Vision About 50,000 adventure-visions were manufactured in 1981-82.  Overall a very nicely designed system. The control panel was designed such that left OR right handed players could enjoy the action...	Emerson Arcadia 2001 Though what people generally think, the Emerson Arcadia 2001, is only a licensed system like many other ones software-compatible with it. But the Arcadia 2001 is certainly the most known one...
Bally Video Arcade (Astrocade) Bally (publisher of Namco's Pac-Man in the U.S.A., as well as other classic arcade titles) made this thing in 1979. More features... more excitement... more capability... and more fun make Astrocade...	Atari 2600 The Atari 2600 introduced removable cartridges and controllers to the home videogame world. Before, most home systems could only play versions of the popular Pong game...
Atari 5200 The graphics and sounds are comparable to the Atari 8 bit computers, although more colorful and solid in most cases. Most of the games are faithful arcade translations of classics...	Atari 7800 The Atari 7800 ProSystem was originally scheduled for release in late 1984, as the follow-up to Atari’s misguided 5200 SuperSystem, but didn’t see release until 1986...
Atari Jaguar 64 In 1991, the Sega Genesis was at the cutting edge of videogame technology in America and enjoying strong sales. NEC's Turbografx-16 was a distant second, and the Super Nintendo was yet to be released...	ColecoVision After the success of their Telstar pong systems in the late 70's, Coleco decided to re-enter the videogame market, inspired by the success of cartridge based systems like the Atari VCS and Mattel Intellivision...
Fairchild Channel F The Channel F was the first programmable video game system, having plug-in cartridges containing ROM and microprocessor code rather than dedicated circuits. Not a very popular or entertaining system...	Mattel Intellivision Released in 1980 by Mattel Electronics, the original Intellivision console featured more sophisticated graphics and sound capabilities than its main competitor, the Atari VCS...
Nintendo 64 Towards the end of the 16-bit era, there was much buzz about the potential of 32-bit systems. The Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn were on everyone's tongues, but how would Nintendo respond...	Nintendo Entertainment System The Jewel in Nintendo's crown. The NES was Nintendo's first attempt at the video game industry after being a playing cards company for years...
Odyssey 2 Magnavox (which merged with Philips in 1974) released the Odyssey² in 1978 to compete with brand new cartridge based video game systems like the Atari VCS...	Philips G7000 The Videopac G7000 is the European version of the Magnavox Odyssey². It was sold by Philips and was only available in Europe. Other brands (related to Philips) sold the same system...
Sega 32X This is where it all started going wrong for Sega and was the start of its downfall in the hardware market. In 1994, as news of more powerful consoles started circulating...	Sega Genesis / MegaDrive The Sega Genesis (Mega Drive in Europe and Japan) was released in 1989 and sold for about $249 initially. For you $250 you got the Genesis console, the necessary cable to hook it up...
Sega Master System The Sega Master System (SMS) was released after Nintendo's NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) console and was never able to catch up to its level of success...	RCA Studio 2 The RCA Studio II was the second programmable video game system in the world, following the Fairchild Video Entertainment System released a few months earlier...
Super Nintendo The release of the Mega Drive and Turbografix-16 consoles in 1989 meant that Nintendo too had to come up with a 16-bit machine to stay in the game...	Turbo Grafix 16 In Japan, shortly after the introduction of Nintendo's Famicom, the electronics giant NEC entered into the video game market with the introduction of their "next generation" system...
Vetrex In October 1982, General Consumer Electronics (GCE) released the Vectrex for $199. The Vectrex wasn't just your average game console...