Consoles/Electronic Games - A Timeline
1967 | 1972 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 |
1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 |
1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 |
1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 |
1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025
(🐥 = home consoles)
(🐥 = handheld consoles (or portable peripherals)
(🐥 = "dedicated" consoles (or have dedicated console capabilities via WiFi), ie. systems that are its own single game, or have multiple games, included in the hardware)
(🐥 = peripherals/accessories for specific console(s))
(🐥 = microconsole) miniature version of the original console or often a smaller, simpler, more affordable game console usually with games included in the hardware
(🐥 = "gaming laptop") consoles with the traditional clamshell design with a built-in keyboard/touchpad combo
Note: Some of the following home consoles/electronic games could be considered more of a "toy" then an actual gaming console; however, I believe they were unique enough or made a big enough impact to be featured on this list. In fact any electronic device which has games that resemble classic or modern "video games" are included as well.
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| 1967 | Brown Box 🐥 |
| 1972 | Magnavox Odyssey 🐥 |
| 1974 |
Ping-O-Tronic 🐥 🐥 VideoSport MK2 🐥 🐥 |
| 1975 |
Acetronic Telesports IV (part of the PC-50X Family) 🐥 Atari's Home Pong 🐥 Schylling handheld SERIES 🐥 🐥 Sears Tele-Games 🐥 🐥 TV Tennis Electrotennis 🐥 🐥 Tele-Spiel 🐥 Video 2000 🐥 |
| 1975-1978 | Magnavox Odyssey SERIES: Odyssey 100, Odyssey 200, Odyssey 300, Odyssey 400, Odyssey 500, Odyssey 2000, Odyssey 3000, Odyssey 4000, Odyssey 5000, Odyssey 2001, Odyssey 2100 🐥 🐥 |
| 1976 |
Coleco Telstar 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Classic 🐥 🐥 Fairchild Channel F 🐥 Radio Shack TV Scoreboard 🐥 🐥 Sportsman T101 🐥 🐥 Super PONG 🐥 🐥 Telstar 🐥 🐥 Telstar Classic 🐥 🐥 Telstar Deluxe 🐥 🐥 Tournament 100 🐥 🐥 Tournament 102 🐥 🐥 Tournament 150 🐥 🐥 Tournament 200 🐥 🐥 Wonder Wizard 🐥 🐥 |
| 1976-1982 | Mattel Handheld Games original SERIES (*first handheld electronic game "Auto Race") 🐥 🐥 |
| 1976-1977 | APF TV Fun SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 1977 |
Atari 2600🐥 Binatone TV Master SERIES: Master MK IV, Master 4 plus 2, Master MK 6, Master MK 8, Master MK 10 🐥 🐥 Blip 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Alpha 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Arcade 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Colormatic 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Combat 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Deluxe 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Galaxy 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Gemini 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Ranger 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Regent 🐥 🐥 Color TV-Game 15 🐥 🐥 Color TV-Game 6 🐥 🐥 Ping-o-Tronic 🐥 🐥 RCA Studio II 🐥 Stunt Cycle 🐥 🐥 TV Jack 1000 🐥 🐥 TV Jack 1200 🐥 🐥 TV Jack 1500 🐥 🐥 TV Jack 2500 🐥 🐥 TV Jack 3000 🐥 🐥 Tournament 1000 🐥 🐥 Tournament 2000 🐥 🐥 Tournament 2501 🐥 🐥 Video Cassetti Rock 🐥 |
| 1978 |
1292 Advanced Programmable Video System (multiple versions released) 🐥 APF-MP1000 🐥 Bally Astrocade 🐥 Bandai TV Jack SERIES "Jack 5000" 🐥 Binatone TV Game SERIES: 01, 4 plus 2, MK 6, MK 10 🐥 🐥 Champion 2711 🐥 🐥 Coleco Electronic Quarterback 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Colortron 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Marksman 🐥 🐥 Coleco Telstar Sportsman 🐥 🐥 Color TV Racing 112 🐥 🐥 Color TV-Game 112 🐥 🐥 Colorsport VIII 🐥 🐥 Interton VC 4000 🐥 Magnavox Odyssey2 🐥 Merlin 🐥 🐥 Olympian 2600 🐥 🐥 Palladium Tele-Cassetten Game 🐥 Telstar Colortron 🐥 🐥 Telstar Marksman 🐥 🐥 Telstar Sportsman 🐥 🐥 Turnir "Tournament" 🐥 🐥 VC 4000 🐥 Video Pinball 🐥 🐥 |
| 1979 |
Alien Attack 🐥 🐥 APF Imagination Machine 🐥 Bandai TV Jack SERIES: "Jack 8000" "Super Vision 8000" "Bandai TV Jack Micro Computer System" 🐥 Color TV Game Block Breaker 🐥 🐥 Milton Bradley Microvision (*first handheld game console that used interchange cartridges) 🐥 |
| 1980 |
BSS 01 🐥 🐥 Computer TV Game 🐥 🐥 Intellivision 🐥 TV játék 🐥 🐥 |
| 1980-1984 | Entex handheld games SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 1980-1991 |
Game & Watch SERIES 🐥 🐥 Play Cable (Online service for the Intellivision to download games) 🐥 |
| 1981 |
Astro Wars "Super Galaxian" 🐥 🐥 Children's Discovery System (educational) 🐥 🐥 Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game 🐥 🐥 Epoch Cassette Vision 🐥 Tandy-12 🐥 🐥 VTech CreatiVision 🐥 |
| 1981-1990 | Fire Away SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 1982 |
Arcadia 2001 "Leisure Vision" 🐥 Atari 5200 🐥 Bandai LCD Solarpower SERIES 🐥 🐥 ColecoVision 🐥 Palladium Video Computer Game 🐥 SHG Black Point FS 1003/FS 2000 🐥 Tomy Tutor "Pyuta" 🐥 Vectrex (*First gaming console with touchscreen capability) 🐥 🐥 |
| 1983 |
3D Gamate (*first cartridge-based 3D console) 🐥 Casio PV-1000 🐥 Compu-Vision 🐥 🐥 Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy 🐥 Galaga X6 🐥 🐥 Nichibutsu My Vision 🐥 Nintendo Family Computer "Famicom" "Nintendo Entertainment System" "Hyundai Comboy" 🐥 Sega SG-1000 🐥 Sharp Nintendo Television 🐥 Videopac+ G7400 🐥 |
| 1983-1987 | Vtech brand handheld game SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 1984 |
Colorvision 🐥 Digi Casse 🐥 Electronika IM SERIES 🐥 🐥 Epoch Game Pocket Computer 🐥 🐥 Epoch Super Cassette Vision 🐥 Portable Videogame System "Super Micro" "Palmtex Super Micro" 🐥 ProScreen 🐥 Vectrex Light Pen (*stylus pen for the 1982 Vectrex) 🐥 |
| 1985 |
BBC Bridge Companion (taught the game "Bridge") 🐥 Halcyon (console) 🐥 LJN Video Art (educational) 🐥 Nintendo Entertainment System "Nintendo Family Computer 'Famicom' " "Hyundai Comboy" 🐥 Sega Mark III "Sega Master System" 🐥 Zemmix 🐥 |
| 1986 |
Atari 7800 🐥 Dina "Telegames Personal Arcade" 🐥 🐥 Family Computer Disk System (add-on for the Famicom, downloadable games) 🐥 Twin Famicom 🐥 Videosmarts (educational) 🐥 |
| 1987 |
Action Max 🐥 Atari XEGS 🐥 PC Engine "TurboGrafx-16" 🐥 Video Challenger (TV "toy") 🐥 |
| 1987-1998 | Tiger Electronics Handheld Game SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 1988 |
CD-ROM2 "TurboGrafx-CD" 🐥 Etch A Sketch Animator 2000 🐥 Sega Genesis "Mega Drive" 🐥 Terebikko "See 'N Say Video Phone" 🐥 VTech Socrates (educational) 🐥 Video Driver 🐥 View-Master Interactive Vision 🐥 |
| 1988-1991 | Acclaim Handheld Games SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 1989 |
Atari Lynx (*first handheld electronic game with a color LCD display) 🐥 Famicom Titler 🐥 Nintendo Game Boy 🐥 SuperGrafx "PC Engine2" 🐥 |
| 1990 |
Amstrad GX4000 🐥 Atari Lynx II 🐥 Commodore 64 Games System "C64" 🐥 Gamate 🐥 Game Genie (video game cheat cartridge for the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Gear) 🐥 Game Master "Systema 2000" "Super Game" "Game Tronic" 🐥 Neo Geo 🐥 Singer IZEK sewing machine (An actual sewing machine for the Game Boy, played with the game Singer Sewing Machine Operation Software) 🐥 Super Famicom "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" 🐥 TurboExpress "PC Engine GT" 🐥 |
| 1991 |
Barcode Battler 🐥 🐥 Commodore CDTV 🐥 Master Gear Converter (peripheral for the Sega Game Gear, allowing play of 50-pin Master System cartridges) 🐥 Sega CD "Mega CD" (peripheral for the Sega Genesis) 🐥 Sega Game Gear (portable version of the Master System) 🐥 Super Famicom Naizou TV SF1 🐥 Super Nintendo Entertainment System "Super Famicom" 🐥 TurboDuo "PC Engine Duo" 🐥 |
| 1991-1996 | Philips CD-i SERIES 🐥 |
| 1992 |
Aladdin Deck Enhancer (peripheral allows software on Compact Cartridges to be played on the NES) 🐥 Picno 🐥 Sega Mega Jet (portable version of the Sega Mega Drive) 🐥 Tandy Memorex Visual Information System "VIS" (educational) 🐥 Watara Supervision "QuickShot Supervision" 🐥 |
| 1993 |
3DO Interactive Multiplayer 🐥 Amiga CD32 🐥 Atari Jaguar 🐥 FM Towns Marty 🐥 Mega Duck WG-108 "Cougar Boy" 🐥 PC Engine Duo R 🐥 Pioneer LaserActive + accessories 🐥 Sega Pico (educational) 🐥 |
| 1994 |
Bandai Playdia 🐥 Capcom Power System Changer "CPS Changer" 🐥 FM Towns Marty 2 🐥 Game Wizard (video game enhancer released for the Sega Mega Drive) 🐥 MGA Game Wizard SERIES 🐥 🐥 Neo Geo CD (front-loading/top-loading) 🐥 PC Engine Duo RX 🐥 PC-FX 🐥 PlayStation 🐥 Sega 32X "Super 32X" "Genesis 32X" "Mega Drive 32X" "Mega 32X" (peripheral for the Sega Genesis) 🐥 Sega Saturn 🐥 Super Game Boy (peripheral that allows Game Boy cartridges to be played on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System) 🐥 |
| 1995 |
Apple Bandai Pippin 🐥 Atari Jaguar CD (peripheral for the Atari Jaguar) 🐥 Casio Loopy (11 games released and created stickers!) 🐥 Design Master "Densi Mangajuku" 🐥 Genesis Nomad "Sega Nomad" (portable version of the Sega Genesis Mega Drive) 🐥 Neo Geo CDZ (upgraded version of the Neo Geo CD) 🐥 R-Zone 🐥 Satellaview (a satellite modem: A peripheral used to transmit and receive signals from a satellite transponder for the Super Famicom) 🐥 Super A'Can 🐥 Virtual Boy 🐥 🐥 |
| 1996 |
Game Boy Pocket 🐥 Koei PasoGo (initially played the board game Go) 🐥 Neo Geo Pocket 🐥 Nintendo 64 🐥 Sufami Turbo (peripheral for the Super Famicom) 🐥 Tomagachi virtual pet SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 1997 |
Game Boy Pocket Light 🐥 Game Boy Pocket Light (Pikachu edition) 🐥 Game.com 🐥 |
| 1998 |
Expansion Pak (peripheral that increases the Nintendo 64 console's RAM from 4 MB to 8 MB of contiguous main memory) 🐥 Game Boy Color 🐥 Neo Geo Pocket 🐥 Pocket Hello Kitty (Tamagotchi-esque) 🐥 🐥 Pokémon Pikachu "Pocket Pikachu" (Tamagotchi-esque) 🐥 🐥 Sega Dreamcast 🐥 Sony PocketStation (Memory Card peripheral for the PlayStation and later an application for the PlayStation Vita) 🐥 Super Game Boy 2 (peripheral that allows Game Boy cartridges to be played on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System) 🐥 |
| 1998-2001 | Sega Visual Memory Unit SERIES (Memory Card peripheral for the Sega Dreamcast, capability to act as a handheld game console) 🐥 🐥 🐥 |
| 1999 |
Bandai WonderSwan 🐥 Dreamcast Limited Maziora Edition 🐥 Dreamcast Toyota (sold in Toyota dealerships) 🐥 Game.com Pocket Pro 🐥 Neo Geo Pocket Color 🐥 Nintendo 64DD (add-on for the N64, downloadable games) 🐥 Pokémon Pikachu 2 "Pocket Pikachu" (Tamagotchi-esque) 🐥 🐥 Wide-Boy64 GBA (peripheral for the N64 that played Game Boy , Game Boy Color games, and Game Boy Advance games) 🐥 Wide-Boy64 GBC (peripheral for the N64 that played Game Boy and Game Boy Color games) 🐥 |
| 1999-2014 | Nintendo Mini Classics SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 2000 |
Bandai WonderSwan Color 🐥 Cybiko 🐥 🐥 Cybiko Classic 🐥 🐥 Cybiko Xtreme 🐥 🐥 Jaguar JN-100 sewing machine (An actual sewing machine for the Game Boy Color, played with the game Mario Family) 🐥 Nuon (a software development kit later released to allow people to program apps/games onto the system) 🐥 PS one ("PlayStation one") 🐥 PlayStation 2 🐥 Pocket Sakura (Tamagotchi-esque) 🐥 🐥 Sega Dreamcast (Gold NTSC-J) 🐥 Sega Dreamcast (Hello Kitty Pink edition) 🐥 Sega Dreamcast CODE: Veronica (1800 "Claire" version, 200 "STARS" version) 🐥 Sega Dreamcast Super Black 🐥 Sega Dreamcast Tsutaya Rental Unit 🐥 |
| 2001 |
Activision TV Games 🐥 🐥 GP32 "Game Park32 NLU" 🐥 🐥 Game Boy Advance (*First 32-bit handheld) 🐥 GameCube 🐥 Laden VS USA 🐥 🐥 P-O-X 🐥 🐥 Panasonic Q "GameQ" 🐥 Pokémon mini 🐥 Sega Dreamcast R7 "Regulation #7"( initially sold to Pachinko parlours) 🐥 Xbox (downloadable games via Xbox Live) 🐥 e-Reader (peripheral for the Game Boy Advance) 🐥 |
| 2001-2003 | Mattel Handheld Games re-release SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 2002 |
Atari 10 in 1 TV Games 🐥 🐥 Atari Plug & Play Joystick 🐥 🐥 Bandai SwanCrystal 🐥 GP32 "Game Park32 FLU" 🐥 🐥 Pixter (*first portable handheld touch screen drawing toy for children) 🐥 🐥 Pocket Pogo game SERIES 🐥 🐥 |
| 2003 |
Game Boy Advance SP 🐥 Game Boy Player (enables Game Boy, Game Boy Color, or Game Boy Advance cartridges to be played on a tv, a special Game Boy Player was released for the Panasonic Q) 🐥 GameKing 🐥 Ms. Pac-Man TV Games 🐥 🐥 Namco / Jakks Plug & Play Game SERIES 🐥 🐥 Nokia N-Gage (personal digital assistant (PDA)/mobile phone) 🐥 PSX (digital video recorder, integrates the PS2 console, includes online gaming capabilities) 🐥 Pac-Man TV Games 🐥 🐥 Tapwave Zodiac (personal digital assistant (PDA)) 🐥 🐥 iQue Player (downloadable games) 🐥 |
| 2004 |
Activision 10 in 1 TV Games 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 🐥 🐥 Atari Plug & Play Paddle 🐥 🐥 C64 Direct-to-TV 🐥 🐥 GP32 "Game Park32 BLU" 🐥 🐥 Nintendo DS (downloadable games via Nintendo Zone) 🐥 Nokia N-Gage QD 🐥 PlayStation Portable (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 VTech V.Smile (educational) 🐥 Xavix Port (fitness-based) 🐥 |
| 2005 |
Advanced Pico Beena (educational) 🐥 Atari Flashback 2 🐥 🐥 GP2X (Linux-based handheld video game console) 🐥 Game Boy Micro 🐥 Game Wave Family Entertainment System 🐥 Gizmondo 🐥 Pixel Chix (Tamagotchi-esque) 🐥 🐥 Play-Yan (MP3 and MPEG-4 player peripheral for the Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo DS, DS Lite, and Game Boy Micro, downloadable games available via the Nintendo website) 🐥 Play-Yan Micro "Nintendo MP3 Player" "MP4 Player for GBA" ( 🐥Same as the original Play-Yan exceptMP4 and ASF support built directly into the hardware, downloadable games available via the Nintendo website) 🐥 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis PlayTV Legends 🐥 🐥 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis PlayTV Legends Volume II 🐥 🐥 VideoNow XP 🐥 Xbox 360 (🐥downloadable games via Xbox Games Store) 🐥 digiBlast 🐥 |
| 2006 |
Mattel Hyperscan 🐥 Nintendo DS Lite 🐥 PlayStation 3 (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 V.Flash (educational) 🐥 Wii (downloadable games available via Virtual Console) 🐥 |
| 2007 |
Arcade Gamer/Poga/DPG-350/Master System Portátil 🐥 🐥 GameKing Handy Game "GM-228" 🐥 🐥 PSP Slim & Lite (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 |
| 2008 |
Arcade Motion Classic 🐥 EVO Smart Console 🐥 Nintendo DSi (downloaded games available via DSi Shop) 🐥 PSP Brite (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 Retro-Bit Retro Duo 🐥 🐥 Tuttuki Bako 🐥 🐥 |
| 2009 |
Dingoo (downloadable games available via the OS) 🐥 GP2X Wiz (Linux-based handheld video game console) 🐥 Game & Watch Ball Club Nintendo re-release 🐥 🐥 Genesis Gencore 🐥 Master System Evolution 🐥 🐥 Mi2 "PDC Touch" 🐥 🐥 Nintendo DSi XL (downloaded games available via DSi Shop) 🐥 PSP Go (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 Playstation 3 Slim (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 RetroN 3 🐥 🐥 Zeebo (educational, downloadable games) 🐥 |
| 2010 |
Arcade Motion Dual 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 2+ 🐥 🐥 GP2X CAANOO (Linux-based handheld video game console) 🐥 Kinect (motion sensing peripheral for Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows PCs) 🐥 Mi2 XL 🐥 🐥 OnLive 🐥 |
| 2011 |
Analogue CMVS slim 🐥 Analogue CMVS 🐥 Atari Flashback 3 🐥 🐥 Nintendo 3DS (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 PlayStation Vita (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 Retron 1 🐥 🐥 Sifteo Cubes 🐥 🐥 SupaBoy Portable Pocket Console 🐥 Xperia PLAY (games available via the PlayStation Mobile app) 🐥 |
| 2012 |
Atari Flashback 4: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 4: Special Edition 🐥 🐥 Pac-Man Connect and Play 🐥 🐥 CT510 "iSec" "eBox" 🐥 Co-Star 🐥 GameGadget (downloadable open source games) 🐥 Gen-X Hybrid Twin Console (Sega Genesis & NES 2-in-1 System) 🐥 Nintendo 3DS XL (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 Retro-Bit Retro Duo Portable 🐥 🐥 RetroN 2 🐥 🐥 SNK Neo-Geo X 🐥 🐥 Wii U (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 |
| 2013 |
Atari Flashback 64: Special Edition 🐥 🐥 GCW Zero (downloadable open source games) 🐥 JXD s7800a 🐥 🐥 🐥 JXD s7800b 🐥 🐥 🐥 Nintendo 2DS (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 Nvidia Shield Portable (games available via TegraZone market, GeForce NOW game-streaming service, and Google Play store) 🐥 Playstation 4 (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 Xbox One (downloadable games available via Xbox Games Store) 🐥 |
| 2014 |
Analogue Neo 🐥 Arduboy (downloadable open source games) 🐥 Atari Flashback 5: Collector's Edition 🐥 🐥 G-cluster 🐥 GameStick 🐥 Intellivision Flashback classic game console 🐥 🐥 MOJO 🐥 New Nintendo 3DS (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 Ouya 🐥 Pandora TV Box 🐥 PlayStation TV 🐥 RetroN 5: HD Gaming Console 🐥 ST-3200 🐥 Super Retro TRIO (able to play NES, Super NES, and Genesis cartridges, and Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games with an adapter) 🐥 TE (Series) 🐥 TV connect 🐥 flarePlay 🐥 |
| 2014-2015 |
1UP 🐥 Atari Flashback 5 🐥 🐥 CUIGI/酷感 (Cool Sensation) AK (Series) 🐥 ColecoVision Flashback 🐥 🐥 Fire TV Stick 🐥 Fire TV 🐥 ZTE FunBox 🐥 G (Series) 🐥 G-BOX 🐥 GI 🐥 GII 🐥 LexiBox TV 🐥 Mars Gamebox I 🐥 Mars Gamebox II 🐥 Nexus Player 🐥 T2 🐥 TIMEBOX 🐥 Tron 🐥 UT蛋蛋 (Egg Egg) 🐥 X18 🐥 X8 🐥 Xtreamer Multi-Console 🐥 ZIVOO智盒 (Intelligence Box) 🐥 享动体感游戏机 (Enjoy Motion Sensing Game Console) 🐥 沃豆小盒 (Wo Dou Mini Box)KL2020 🐥 |
| 2015 |
Analogue Nt 🐥 Apple TV 4th Gen (HD) 🐥 Atari Flashback 6 Deluxe 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 6 🐥 🐥 Eagle Box 🐥 Flare Play 2.0 🐥 GPD XD (Windows-based handheld computer) 🐥 🐥 IAM-ANDi 🐥 Lemeng miniStation 🐥 New Nintendo 3DS XL (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 Nvidia SHIELD TV Pro 🐥 Nvidia Shield TV 🐥 OBox 🐥 Playdroid TV 🐥 Razer Forge TV 🐥 Warchief 🐥 ZX Spectrum Vega 🐥 🐥 致酷游戏主机 (Cool Gaming Console) 🐥 飞智游戏盒子 (Flying Wisdom Game Box) 🐥 魔棒 (Magic Wand) 🐥 魔蛋娱乐主机 (Magic Egg Entertainment Console) 🐥 |
| 2016 |
9iTV遊戲盒 (Game Box) 🐥 Atari Flashback 7 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Portable 🐥 🐥 GEM Box 🐥 GPD Win (Windows-based handheld computer) 🐥 🐥 GS Gamekit 🐥 Generations Plug and Play Console 🐥 🐥 "Nintendo Entertainment System" (NES) Classic 🐥 🐥 Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer 🐥 🐥 PlayStation 4 Pro (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 PlayStation 4 Slim (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 Retro-Bit Generations 🐥 🐥 Sega Genesis Classic 🐥 🐥 Sega Genesis Ultimate Portable Game Player ("Sega Gopher") 🐥 🐥 Skyworth miniStation 🐥 Tomahawk F1 🐥 Xbox One S (downloadable games available via Xbox Games Store) 🐥 |
| 2017 |
Analogue Nt mini 🐥 Apple TV 5th Gen (4K) 🐥 Atari Flashback 8 Deluxe 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 8 Deluxe: Sam's Club Special Edition 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 8 Gold Deluxe 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 8 Gold 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 8 Gold: Activision Edition 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 8 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Portable 2.0 🐥 🐥 EVOLVEO Android Box H4 Plus 🐥 KORA 🐥 New Nintendo 2DS XL (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 Nintendo Switch (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 🐥 Nvidia SHIELD TV Pro 2nd Gen 🐥 Nvidia Shield TV 2nd Gen 🐥 PasocomMini MZ-80C 🐥 🐥 RetroN 1 HD 🐥 🐥 RetroN 77 🐥 🐥 "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" (SNES) Classic 🐥 🐥 Sega Genesis Flashback 🐥 🐥 Sega Genesis Ultimate Portable 🐥 🐥 Super Retro-Cade Plug and Play Console 🐥 🐥 TIM BOX 🐥 Xbox One X (downloadable games available via Xbox Games Store) 🐥 |
| 2018 |
Analogue Ghostly x Analogue 🐥 Analogue Super Nt 🐥 AtGames Flashback Blast! SERIES : Activision Flashback Blast!, Atari Flashback Blast! Vol. 1, Atari Flashback Blast! Vol. 2, Atari Flashback Blast! Vol. 3, Bandai Namco Flashback Blast!, Legends Flashback Blast! 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 9 'Boom' 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 9 Gold 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 9 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 9 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Atari Flashback Blast Bandai Namco - Pac-Man (Walmart Edition) 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Blast Activision - Pitfall! 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Blast Bandai Namco - Pac-Man 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Blast Legends - Space Invaders 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Blast Vol. 1 - Centipede 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Blast Vol. 2 - Asteroids 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback Blast Vol. 3 - Pong & Atari Hits 🐥 🐥 C64 Mini "Commodore 64 Mini" 🐥 🐥 Fire TV Cube 🐥 GPD Win 2 (Windows-based handheld computer) 🐥 🐥 Go Retro! Portable 🐥 🐥 MegaRetroN HD Gaming Console 🐥 NEOGEO mini 🐥 🐥 PhoenixOne 🐥 PlayStation Classic 🐥 🐥 Scishion Ai SE 🐥 Supa RetroN HD 🐥 🐥 SupaRetroN HD Gaming Console 🐥 The Oregon Trail Handheld 🐥 🐥 ZX Spectrum Vega+ 🐥 🐥 |
| 2019 |
Analogue Mega Sg 🐥 Atari Flashback X 🐥 🐥 C64 (Commodore 64 full size "Maxi" version) 🐥 🐥 Capcom Home Arcade 🐥 🐥 Chromecast Ultra (Google Stadia Premiere Edition) 🐥 Legends Flashback 🐥 🐥 NEOGEO Arcade Stick Pro (can not be used with the NEOGEO mini) 🐥 🐥 🐥 Nintendo Switch Lite(downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 🐥 Nvidia SHIELD TV Pro 3rd Gen 🐥 Nvidia Shield TV 3rd Gen 🐥 Oculus Quest 🐥 🐥 🐥 🐥 Oculus Rift S 🐥 🐥 PasocomMini PC-8001 🐥 🐥 Sega Genesis Mini 🐥 🐥 Sega Mega Drive Mini 🐥 🐥 Valve Index 🐥 🐥 Xbox One S (downloadable games available via Microsoft Store or Xbox Game Pass) 🐥 Zemmix Mini 🐥 🐥 |
| 2020 |
Astro City Mini 🐥 🐥 Atari VCS (downloadable games available via a Linux-based operating system called AtariOS) 🐥 🐥 Evercade 🐥 Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. 🐥 🐥 Game Gear Micro 🐥 🐥 Legends Core 🐥 Arcade 1Up Mega Man Collection 🐥 🐥 Oculus Quest 2 "Meta Quest 2" 🐥 🐥 🐥 🐥 PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini 🐥 🐥 PC Engine Mini 🐥 🐥 Pac-Man Collection 🐥 🐥 PlayStation 5 (downloadable games available via PlayStation Store) 🐥 RetroN 3 HD 3in1 Retro Gaming Console 🐥 TurboGrafx-16 Mini 🐥 🐥 VIC20 "VIC-20" 🐥 🐥 Xbox Series X and Series S "Xbox Series X|S" (downloadable games available via Microsoft Store or Xbox Game Pass) 🐥 i7 🐥 咪咕快游娱乐终端 (Migu Quick Game Entertainment Terminal) 🐥 |
| 2021 |
Analogue Pocket 🐥 🐥 Apple TV 6th Gen (4K) 🐥 Atari VCS 🐥 Aurora Box 3 Pro Cloud Gaming Edition 🐥 Ayaneo 🐥 Evercade VS 🐥 Evo Fox Game Box 🐥 Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda 🐥 🐥 Nintendo Switch (OLED model) (downloadable games available via Nintendo eShop) 🐥 🐥 Polymega 🐥 Retro Station 🐥 🐥 RetroN 1 AV Gaming Console 🐥 RetroN Sq: HD Gaming Console 🐥 Zemmix Super Mini 🐥 🐥 |
| 2022 |
Ayaneo Next / Ayaneo Next Pro 🐥 Ayaneo 2 🐥 Ayaneo Geek 🐥 Thumby 🐥 🐥 Steam Deck 🐥 🐥 Amazon Luna (cloud gaming platform) 🐥 Playdate 🐥 🐥 Astro City Mini V 🐥 🐥 PICO 4 🐥 Meta Quest Pro 🐥 Sega Genesis Mini 2 🐥 🐥 Evercade EXP 🐥 🐥 Taito Arcade Selection: EGRETII Mini 🐥 🐥 A500 Mini "Amiga 500 Mini" 🐥 🐥 Astro City Mini V 🐥 🐥 Sega Mega Drive Mini 2 🐥 🐥 Atari Flashback 11 / 50th Anniversary Edition 🐥 🐥 |
| 2023 |
Ayaneo Pocket Air, Ayaneo Kun, Ayaneo Air 1s, Ayaneo 2s and Ayaneo Geek 1s 🐥 Atari Pocket Player Pro 🐥 Atari Gamestation Pro 🐥 🐥 X68000 Z Limited Edition Early Access Kit / X68000 Z Product Edition Black Model 🐥 🐥 PlayStation 5 (Slim) 🐥 🐥 Xbox Series S (1TB Black) 🐥 🐥 Atari 2600+ 🐥 PlayStation Portal 🐥 🐥 Steam Deck OLED 🐥 🐥 Asus ROG Ally 🐥 🐥 Lenovo Legion Go 🐥 Razer Edge 🐥 PlayStation VR2 🐥 Meta Quest 3 🐥 🐥 HTC Vive XR Elite 🐥 🐥 |
| 2024 |
DanceDanceRevolution Classic Mini 🐥 🐥 🐥 400 Mini "Atari 400 Mini" 🐥 🐥 🐥 PlayStation 5 Pro 🐥 🐥 Apple Vision Pro 🐥 MSI Claw A1M 🐥 🐥 Atari 400 Mini 🐥 🐥 🐥 Meta Quest 3S 🐥 🐥 Atari 7800+ 🐥 🐥 Steam Deck OLED (white) 🐥 🐥 Lenovo IdeaPad 🐥 🐥 Anbernic RG35XX 🐥 🐥 Asus ROG Ally X 🐥 🐥 |
| 2025 |
Nintendo Switch 2 🐥 🐥 GPD WIN Mini 🐥 🐥 🐥 GPD WIN 4 🐥 🐥 GPD WIN Max 2 🐥 🐥 Valve Index VR Headset 🐥 🐥 Msi Cyborg 15 🐥 🐥 MSI Claw 8 AI+ 🐥 🐥 Acer Nitro Blaze 8 🐥 🐥 Acer Nitro Blaze 11 🐥 🐥 Atari Gamestation Go 🐥 🐥 Lenovo Legion Go S 🐥 🐥 Zeenix Pro 🐥 🐥 Lenovo Legion Go 2 🐥 🐥 ROG Xbox Ally 🐥 🐥 PasocomMini PC-8801 mkII SR 🐥 🐥 🐥 |
Notable Events
Ah, video games. What would the modern world be like without video games? It's undeniable how much video games have made such an impact on our world not only in our personal lives but our social lives as well. Whether you play for fun or play to relieve stress from your everyday life, who can deny how awesome video games are?
| 1940 | Edward U. Condon designs a computer that plays the game Nim for the World's Fair |
| 1947 | Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann file a patent for a "cathode ray tube amusement device" which uses a cathode ray tube hooked to an oscilloscope display to fire a gun at a target |
| 1950 | Claude Shannon and Alan Turing create Chess programs |
| 1952 | A. S. Douglas creates OXO (Noughts and Crosses in the UK, Tic-Tac-Toe in the US) |
| 1954 | Alamos laboratories develop the first Blackjack game on an IBM-701 |
| 1955 | US military develops Hutspiel where NATO and Soviet commanders wage war |
| 1956 | Arthur Samuel writes a Checkers program on an IBM-701 |
| 1957 | Alex Bernstein writes the first complete Chess program on an IBM-704 |
| 1958 | Willy Higinbotham creates a tennis game on an oscilloscope and analog computer |
| 1959 | MIT students create Mouse in the Maze on MIT's computer TX-0 |
| 1960 | John and Paul Burgeson develop a baseball computer program on an IBM 1620 |
| 1961 | The Raytheon Company develops a computer simulation of the Cold War for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, later develops a more accessible analog version called "Grand Strategy" |
| 1962 | Steve Russell invents Spacewar!, the first computer-based video game |
| 1963 | US Defense Department develop a computer game known as STAGE(Simulation of Total Atomic Global Exchange) |
| 1964 | John Kemeny creates the computer time-share system and the BASIC programming language |
| 1965 | A Dartmouth student creates the first computer Football game |
| 1966 | Ralph Baer writes his ideas of playing a video game on television |
| 1967 | Ralph Baer develops the "Brown Box", the video game prototype |
| 1968 | Ralph Baer patents his television game |
| 1970 | Acientific American publishes Martin Gardner's "Mathmatical Games", inspiring hackers to implement them on their computers |
| 1971 | Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger create "Oregon Trail" |
| 1972 | Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn of Atari develop "Pong" |
| 1973 | David Ahl puplishes "101 BASIC Computer Games", a compilation of type-in computer games, which included, among others, Hamurabi and Super Star Trek |
| 1974 | "Maze Wars", the first-person shooter was introduced |
| 1975 | Atari introduces the home version of "Pong" |
| 1976 | Don Wood's version of "Adventure"(created by William Crowther), basically becomes the first role-playing game |
| 1977 | Atari releases the Atari 2600 |
| 1978 | "Space Invaders" hits arcades |
| 1979 | Milton Bradley Microvision created the first handheld game console that used interchange cartridges |
| 1980 | Namco creates Pac-Man |
| 1981 | Nintendo's "Donkey Kong" hits arcades, featuring a character known as Jumpman(which becomes Mario years later) |
| 1982 | Disney's Tron movie is released. Tron, the arcade game, becomes a hit. |
| 1983 | 3D Gamate, the first cartridge-based 3D console was released |
| 1984 | Alexey Pajitnov creates "Tetris" |
| Vectrex Light Pen, the first gaming console with touchscreen capability was released | |
| 1985 | The Nintendo Entertainment System(NES) is released |
| 1987 | "Legend of Zelda", "Street Fighter", "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out ", "Dungeons and Dragons", "Contra", " Leisure Suit Larry" just to name a few now popular titles gets released |
| 1988 | "John Madden Football" released |
| 1989 | Atari Lynx, the first handheld electronic game with a color LCD display was released |
| 1990 | Microsoft introduces Solitaire with Windows 3.0 |
| 1991 | Sega's "Sonic the Hedgehog" is released |
| 1992 | "Dune II" popularizes real-time strategy based games. "Mortal Kombat" hits arcades |
| 1993 | The United States Senate holds hearings on the violence of video games |
| 1994 | The still popular Warcraft game series is introduced with "Warcraft: Orcs and Humans" |
| 1995 | Sony's Playstation is released |
| 1996 | "Tomb Raider" is released, critics claim it's sexist |
| 1997 | IBM's "Deep Blue" Chess program defeats world champion Gary Kasparov in a match |
| 1998 | The ever so popular "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" is released |
| Unreal Engine (UE), a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased | |
| 1999 | Sony's "Everquest" releases, becoming the fisrt MMO(Massive Multiplayer Online) game. Konami's Dance Dance Revolution forces players to dance |
| 2000 | "The Sims" is introduced, becoming one of the most popular simulation games, especially among females |
| 2001 | Microsoft's Xbox is released, making "Halo" an extremely poplular game |
| The first 32-bit handheld, Game Boy Advance was released | |
| 2002 | The Wilson International Center for Scholars launches the Serious Games Initiative |
| Pixter, the first portable handheld touch screen drawing toy for children was created | |
| 2003 | Valve introduces Steam- a digital distribution platform online where people can download games on their PCs |
| 2004 | The Nintendo DS is released |
| 2005 | Microsft's Xbox 360 is released, becoming the first home gaming console with high-definition graphics |
| 2006 | Nintendo's Wii is released, a family-friendly console featuring games that force the user to get moving with their controllers with games such as "Wii Fit U" and "WarioWare: Smooth Moves" |
| 2007 | "Rock Band" is released featuring controllers in the form of guitars, drums, microphones, and basses |
| 2008 | "World of Warcraft", the MMO, surpasses 10 million subscribers |
| 2009 | iPhone makes portable games popular |
| 2010 | "Minecraft" is released |
| 2011 | The first augmented-reality game, "Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure", hits stores |
| 2012 | Kickstarter, a crowdfunding site, helps game creators raise money to produce their experimental game platforms |
| 2014 | "Free-to-play" becomes popular. Sales are achieved through microtransactions for in-game items and content |
| 2015 | Twitch, an online video streaming service, grows the popularity of eSports. "League of Legends" hits 36 million viewers |
| 2016 | The augmented reality game, "Pokemon Go" is released on mobile phones, letting people walk around in their neighbor hoods "catching" Pokemon |
| 2017 | Nintendo's "Switch" is released |
| 2020 | NVidia and AMD introduced graphics cards in 2020 with hardware support for real-time ray tracing (a rendering technique that can produce realistic lighting effects) |
| The gaming industry experienced significant shifts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the launch of new consoles and a surge in online gaming | |
| 2021 | Netflix launched a mobile gaming service and acquired a game development studio |
| 2022 | The "League of Legends" World Championship 2023 broke the record for the most-viewed esports event of all time, with a peak viewership of 6.4 million | 2023 | A 13-year-old nicknamed "Blue Scuti" became the first human to defeat "Tetris" by causing a killscreen at level 157 |
| 2024 | 2024 saw significant layoffs across the industry. This trend, which started in 2022, raised concerns about the industry's sustainability and reliance on big-budget games. |
| 2025 | The Galactus event, a Marvel themed event from "Fortnite" drew 15.3 million concurrent players, which is still a record for a live in-game event |
Most Game of the Year (GOTY) Awards
- Elden Ring (331 awards)
- The Last of Us Part 2 (321 awards)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (281 awards)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (262 awards)
- God of War (264 awards)
- The Last of Us (257 awards)