ganoncrotch said:
Would you please add some information to the OP about the generations, a lot of people seem to be confused or seem to think that Gen 1 was Atari2600 from the comments and there is a knock on effect of that on all the gens. Generation 1 (1972 - 1977) Magnavox Odyssey, TV Tennis, Home Pong Systems, Coleco Telstar, Binatone TV master, Nintendo Color TV-Game. Generation 2 (1976 - 1983) Atari 2600, Fairchild Channel F, Bally Astrocade, Magnavox Odyssey2, Intellivision, Emerson Arcadia 2001, ColecoVision, Atari 5200, Vectrex [Gen 2 also had some Handheld systems - Milton Bradley Microvision, Nintendos Game and Watch Series, Entex Select-A-Game, Epoch Game Pocket Computer.] Generation 3 8bit era (1983-1987) SG-1000, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) , Sega Master System/Sega Mark III , Atari 7800, Commodore 64 Generation 4 16bit era (1987-1996) PC-Engine, Megadrive/Genesis, Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Neo Geo AES, Philips CD-i [Gen 4 handhelds Game Boy, Atari Lynx, Sega GameGear, TurboExpress] Generation 5 (1993-2003) 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Playstation, Nintendo 64, Apple Bandais Pippen [Gen 5 handhelds - Sega Nomad, Game Boy Pocket/light/color, Neo Geo Pocket/Color, Wonderswan/color, Virtual Boy] Generation 6 (1998-2013) Sega Dreamcast, Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox [Gen 6 handhelds - GBA/SP/Micro, Nokia N-Gage/QD] Generation 7 (2005-) Xbox360, Playstation 3, Wii [Gen 7 handhelds - Nintendo DS/Lite/DSi/DSi XL, PSP series/Go Generation 8 (2012-) Wii-U, Playstation 4, Xbox One [Gen 8 handhelds - Nintendo 3ds family, Playstation Vita/TV]
There we go, a brief history of gaming Gens haha. Feel free to copy paste this into the OP if you want NinjaPirate42 would rather people know which gen is which for the poll :) |
Done and done, thanks!