A breif history of consoles.

There have been many video game consoles over these many years from the magnebox odyssey all the way to the PS3, starting of with just one game per console heading towards hundreds of games on each.
Many of these have been successful however some of them just failed and faded away some like the magnebox odyssey were not very successful as there advertisements made it seem as though you could only play it on a magnebox T.V designed by the same company and not everyone had a TV like that at the time so they went out and bought a console that did the same thing and worked on all TV’s known as “Pong”.
One of the great classics was the Attari 2600 this console had the longest life span of any home gaming system, and in between it’s existence the same companies made other consoles which came and went one was called the Attari 5200 which was supposed to replace the 2600 but unfortunately it failed as the console for one thing was far too big and the controllers that came with the system never worked and some other controllers that were available were not compatible and though there were controllers that worked they were very hard to get a hold of and there for the most important aspect of the game was shattered as you couldn’t play it so there for it was scrapped and never saw the light of day again.
Then there were others like the Sega genesis which also had a long life span, not as long as the Attari 2600 though, but as new consoles came in to the works Sega had to try and keep the genesis alive, there were 2 attempts known as the sega cd and the sega 32X, these failed though, why, there are many reasons.

· It created a huge mess of cables on you floor.
o You have to connect the sega to the 32X.
o The sega to the sega cd.
o They each have there own power adapter.
§ In that case why not make it a separate console if it’s not going to run of the sega’s power.
· There were rumours that the 32X could damage your games (this was never properly proved though).

I can’t really remember any reasons off the top of my head so what else can I say about the 32X other than it sucks!
The genesis in general was a really good console for the time but the attachments mentioned above just sucked balls and were some of the biggest failures of the time; however these attachments were made for the simple reason of keeping the genesis going to compete with its nemesis the super Nintendo also known as the SNES, but one thing still runs through my mind why the hell keep the console going, why not just make a console that’s better, but no, they just want to keep more bullshit leaching on the genesis and making the super Nintendo more popular than a console that some people say is on life support.
However after many consoles Sega eventually got it right with the Dreamcast but after the release of that console Sega had to leave the race of consoles having Microsoft and Sony stepping into the race, and now Sega is making games on consoles like the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360.
When Sony got into the race they created one of the most popular consoles ever made known only as the Playstation, which was one of the very few consoles that was successful in utilising discs, and then many years later came the PS2 and the PS3 but now the 2 main competitors are Microsoft and Sony we have 2 matches going on right now

Xbox VS. PS2
Xbox 360 VS. PS3

Who will win?
Only time will tell.

This has been a brief history of video game consoles, and believe me I haven’t gone through them all, I have just narrowed it down, maybe some day I will tell the rest of the history of the other consoles but that days is not today.

Thanks for reading.