Computerized gaming roots back to the 1950’s with some simple computer games that were similar to table tennis or shooting airplane targets. In 1977, the Atari was released that would soon take gaming to a whole new level. It was the first console that had plug in cartridges that game in a variety of different video games. The first game to be released was Pong. It was similar to the table tennis game involved in the 50’s.
As time went on gaming branched out into various arcade games such as PAC-MAN, Frogger, and Street Fighter, as well as many others. As technology grew people were able to bring some of these classics into their home through purchasing other consoles. While their have been a great number of consoles created and sold to gamers the most popular are as follows:
- Nintendo Entertainment System (October 1985)
- Sega Genesis (August 1989)
- Sony Playstation (September 1995)
- Sony Playstation 2 (October 2000)
- Nintendo GameCube (November 2001)
- Microsoft Xbox (November 2001)
- Microsoft Xbox 360 (May 2005)
- Sony Playstation 3 (November 2006)
- Nintendo Wii (November 2006)
Here is a weekly overview of video game hardware sales:
So with the constant in gaming technology what will the future offer us? What will be the next console to be released and which of the major gaming companies will release it first? Only time will tell.
