Computer Game
Understanding the Playstation Game Console
The term console is employed in different fields. We have system consoles which are physical devices for operating PCs, virtual consoles which are user interfaces for connecting different computer consoles on one gizmo consoles in Mac OS X which are log viewers on OS X, hand held consoles which are portable, light devices for video console games, organ consoles which include the stops, keys, and foot pedals for music playing, mixing consoles which are mixing devices for combining and controlling audio signals, lighting control consoles which are devices that control melodramatic lighting, centre consoles which are bucket seat set-ups for vehicles, and consoles which are types of British government fiscal bonds. But the term console is generally used for Nintendo game consoles.
A video game console is basically an interactive entertainment computer or a P. C. system which has been modified to produce a video display signal. This can then be used with different display devices such as monitors and TVs. Video game consoles are different from PCs in that PCs can do lots more than play video console games.
The first computer games were played in the 1950s and these were on vector displays and not analogue displays. The 1st home computer game consoles were attached to TV sets and they were made by Magnavox in 1972. These were the 1st generation computer game consoles. The second generation consoles were released by Fairchild in 1976 and they were called the Fairchild Video Entertainment system (VES). These were the 1st computer game consoles that had cartridges with all the info on the game. There was a video game crash in 1977 following the release of outdated consoles to clear stocks, mostly at a complete loss. This meant the likes of Fairchild and RCA couldn't carry on making profit on a Playstation game console. Only Magnavox and Atari kept making these consoles. There was another crash in 1983 which was also occasioned by the flooding of the market with low quality video game consoles. The third generation video game consoles was occasioned by the upward thrust of Nintendo and the release of its Family Computer (Famicom) Nintendo gaming console in 1983 in Japan and later in the U.S. Under the Nintendo Entertainment system (NES).
The 4th generation computer gaming consoles saw the upward thrust of SEGA. Some the most important 5th generation computer game consoles include Iron Infantryman (Atari Jaguar), Virtua Racing (Super 32X), Star Fox (SNES), Gex (3DO), Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES), and Vectorman (Mega Drive). The sixth generation video card consoles include SEGA's Dreamcast, Sony's PlayStation Two, Microsoft's Xbox, and the Nintendo GameCube. The seventh generation consoles include the Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, and The Nintendo Wii. The eighth generation video card consoles include Nintendo 3DS and presumably PlayStation 4 and the Xbox 720.
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