Over the years consoles have improved more and more each time a new console comes out there are either small not very noticeable changes to drastic changes either in appearance or internally. With changes does come some excitement for gamers at a chance at a new experience. The Magnavox Odyssey beat the Atari Pong home console by three years. It featured crude graphics, and crude controller response, but it paved the way for those that followed after. It was powered by batteries and had no sound. Compared to now with consoles such as the Xbox One or Playstation 4 with great sound and graphic capablities just shows how much the video gaming industry has changed and continues to change even now.
the first home video game console which could be connected to a TV set. Ralph Baer's initial design had called for a huge row of switches that would allow gamers to turn on and off certain components of the console to create slightly different games like tennis, volleyball, hockey, and chase. Magnavox replaced the switch design with separate cartridges for each game.
| Console Name | Year of Release | Year Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Magnavox Odyssey | 1972 | 0 |
| Atari 2600 | 1977 | 5 |
| Magnavox Odyssey 2 | 1978 | 1 |
| Intellivision | 1980 | 2 |
| Arcadia 2001 | 1982 | 2 |
| Atari 5200 | 1982 | 0 |
| Colecovision | 1982 | 0 |
| NES | 1983 | 1 |
| Atari 7800 | 1984 | 1 |
| Super Cassette Vision | 1984 | 0 |
| Sega Master System | 1985 | 1 |
| Sega Genesis | 1988 | 3 |
| Neo-Geo | 1990 | 2 |
| Super Nintendo | 1990 | 0 |
| Atari Jaguar | 1993 | 3 |
| Playstation | 1994 | 1 |
| Neo-Geo CD | 1994 | 0 |
| Sega Saturn | 1994 | 0 |
| Apple Bandai Pippin | 1995 | 1 |
| Nintendo 64 | 1996 | 1 |
| Dreamcast | 1998 | 2 |
| Playstation 2 | 2000 | 2 |
| Nintendo Gamecube | 2001 | 1 |
| Xbox | 2001 | 0 |
| Xbox 360 | 2005 | 4 |
| Playstation 3 | 2006 | 1 |
| Wii | 2006 | 0 |
| Wii U | 2012 | 6 |
| Playstation 4 | 2013 | 1 |
| Xbox One | 2013 | 0 |
