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The videos game console occurs as dedicated electronic device designed to play video games. Typically a output device occurs as separate television or a computer monitor. A independent data input device occurs as controller. There was the period whenever videos game consoles were well distinct from either personal computers: consoles used the standard television for display, and did non trend lines standard PC accessories like keyboards or modems. Nonetheless, when consoles use at times turn into additional enhanced, a distinction has blurred: a few consoles could keep close at hand to the full Linux operating systems running with hard drives and keyboards (rather a Sega Dreamcast or Nintendo GameCube). Of these university has even created the Beowulf cluster of PlayStation 2 consoles. A console market has steadily developed from either elementary 1-off games, like PONG, to fully featured general purpose games systems. Older stake consoles & their software package today survive inside emulators as they are there is no yearn supported by their manufacturers. Yet, console makers try to block their games from either existence played within aper utilizing copyright-prefer perquisite in mask works and a protection of encrypted media created by the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act and foreign counterparts. Note that a advertised "bitness" of post-32-bit consoles were inside prominent section created per console makers' marketing departments & will use little to wash sustaining a actual architecture or even processing power of the systems. Streaming game consoles develop created a altogether self-supporting market for hundreds to thousands of different video game accessory manufacturers who would otherwise non exist as respire to develop their have streaming game consoles. These manufacturers develop expanded upon a original utilizes for the back consoles & keep close at h& potentially created totally fresh ways to each play and have occasionally of the virtually all popular streaming video game systems.
Timeline
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bar:Atari from:01/01/1977 till:01/01/1990 color:2ndgen text:"Atari 2600"
bar:Atari from:01/01/1993 till:06/30/1996 color:64bit text:"Jaguar"
bar:Atari2 from:01/01/1982 till:01/01/1984 color:2ndgen text:"Atari 5200"
bar:Atari2 from:01/01/1986 till:01/01/1992 color:8bit text:"Atari 7800"
bar:Nintendo1 from:01/01/1985 till:01/01/1995 color:8bit text:"NES"
bar:Nintendo2 from:08/01/1982 till:03/01/1984 color:8bit text:"Colecovision"
bar:Nintendo2 from:08/01/1991 till:01/01/1999 color:16bit text:"Super NES"
bar:NEC1 from:01/01/1978 till:01/01/1984 color:2ndgen text:"Magnavox Odyssey 2"
bar:NEC1 from:08/01/1989 till:08/01/1992 color:16bit text: "TurboGrafx-16"
bar:NEC2 from:01/01/1980 till:01/01/1984 color:2ndgen text:"Intellivision"
bar:NEC2 from:10/10/1992 till:01/01/1995 color:16bit text: "TurboDuo"
bar:Nintendo1 from:09/29/1996 till:08/01/2001 color:64bit text:"N64"
bar:Nintendo2 from:10/18/2001 till:05/01/2006 color:6thgen text:"GameCube" shift:(-20,0)
bar:Nintendo2 from:05/01/2005 till:12/31/2006 color:projection text:"(proj.)"
bar:Nintendo1 from:03/22/2006 till:12/31/2006 color:projection text:"Revolution (projection)"
bar:SEGA1 from:01/01/1986 till:01/01/1992 color:8bit text:"Master System"
bar:SEGA2 from:01/09/1989 till:12/31/1995 color:16bit text:"Genesis"
bar:SEGA1 from:05/01/1995 till:03/01/1998 color:32bit text:"Saturn"
bar:SEGA2 from:09/09/1999 till:01/01/2001 color:6thgen text:"Dreamcast"
bar:Sony1 from:09/09/1995 till:01/01/2001 color:32bit text:"PlayStation"
bar:Sony2 from:10/26/2000 till:01/01/2006 color:6thgen text:"PS2"
bar:Sony2 from:01/01/2006 till:07/01/2006 color:projection text:"(proj.)"
bar:Sony3 from:04/01/2006 till:12/31/2007 color:projection text:"PS3 (proj.)"
bar:MS from:11/15/2001 till:01/01/2006 color:6thgen text:"Xbox"
bar:MS from:01/01/2005 till:03/01/2006 color:projection text:"(proj.)"
bar:MS2 from:11/22/2005 till:12/31/2008 color:projection text:"Xbox 360 (proj.)"
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Note: This is an abridged timeline of streaming videos game consoles around Japan.
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bar:Nintendo2 from:11/21/1990 till:09/01/2003 color:16bit text:"Super Famicom(Super NES)"
bar:NEC1 from:10/30/1987 till:01/01/1999 color:16bit text: "PC Engine(TurboGrafx-16)"
bar:NEC2 from:01/01/1994 till:01/01/1998 color:16bit text: "PC FX"
bar:Nintendo3 from:07/01/1983 till:01/01/1985 color:2ndgen text: "SG-1000"
bar:Nintendo3 from:06/23/1996 till:01/01/2002 color:64bit text:"N64"
bar:Nintendo4 from:09/14/2001 till:05/01/2005 color:6thgen text:"GameCube" shift:(-20,0)
bar:Nintendo4 from:05/01/2005 till:12/31/2006 color:projection text:"(proj.)"
bar:Nintendo1 from:07/01/2006 till:12/31/2007 color:projection text:"Revolution (projection)"
bar:SEGA1 from:10/20/1985 till:02/04/1989 color:8bit text:"SG-1000_Mark_III(Master System)"
bar:SEGA2 from:10/29/1988 till:12/31/1995 color:16bit text:"Mega Drive (Genesis)"
bar:SEGA1 from:11/22/1994 till:01/01/1999 color:32bit text:"Saturn"
bar:SEGA2 from:11/27/1998 till:02/24/2004 color:6thgen text:"Dreamcast"
bar:Sony1 from:12/03/1994 till:01/01/2002 color:32bit text:"PlayStation"
bar:Sony2 from:03/04/2000 till:01/05/2005 color:6thgen text:"PS2"
bar:Sony2 from:01/05/2005 till:12/31/2006 color:projection text:"(proj.)"
bar:Sony3 from:04/01/2006 till:12/31/2007 color:projection text:"PS3 (proj.)"
bar:MS from:02/22/2002 till:01/05/2005 color:6thgen text:"Xbox"
bar:MS from:01/05/2005 till:12/31/2006 color:projection text:"(proj.)"
bar:MS2 from:11/10/2005 till:12/31/2007 color:projection text:"Xbox 360 (proj.)"
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Note: This is an abridged timeline of videos game consoles within Europe.
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bar:Nintendo1 from:03/01/1997 till:11/16/2001 color:64bit text:"N64"
bar:Nintendo1 from:07/01/2006 till:12/31/2007 color:projection text:"Revolution (projection)"
bar:Nintendo2 from:04/01/1992 till:01/01/1999 color:16bit text:"Super NES"
bar:Nintendo2 from:05/03/2002 till:05/01/2005 color:6thgen text:"GameCube" shift:(-20,0)
bar:Nintendo2 from:05/01/2005 till:12/31/2006 color:projection text:"(proj.)"
bar:SEGA2 from:11/30/1990 till:12/31/1995 color:16bit text:"Genesis"
bar:SEGA2 from:10/14/1999 till:01/01/2001 color:6thgen text:"Dreamcast"
bar:Sony1 from:09/29/1995 till:01/01/2001 color:32bit text:"PlayStation"
bar:Sony3 from:04/01/2006 till:12/31/2007 color:projection text:"PS3 (proj.)"
bar:MS from:04/26/2002 till:01/05/2005 color:6thgen text:"Xbox"
bar:MS from:01/05/2005 till:12/31/2006 color:projection text:"(proj.)"
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