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in the 1960s before the first moon landing the first generation of video games appeared on large computers a man named Ralph H Baer conceived of the idea of a home video game and created a design for a series of consoles which ultimately appeared in 1972 as the Magnavox Odyssey the very first console which would be hooked up to a TV but obviously it wasn't quite like a modern console the Odyssey actually came with translucent overlays that you would put on your TV screen to imitate graphics as well as board game style accessories like dice and play money The Odyssey actually sold pretty well but it wasn't until the arcade game pong that the public began to really notice the video gaming industry which sparked a revolution in gaming the second generation of consoles introduced the ColecoVision notable for being powerful enough to run popular arcade games the Microvision the first handheld console with interchangeable cartridges and of course the famous atari 2600 which helped make the concept of game cartridges the dominant model of game distribution for quite some time unfortunately these consoles suffered from the infamous video game crash of 1983 a huge downturn in the gaming market as many new companies tried to jump into the industry and capitalize on it leading to the production of many poor quality games and consoles as well as growing competition from the emerging PC market as a result only the well-established companies survived by the third generation video games were kind of seen as a fad that had passed but Nintendo revived the gaming industry by releasing the NES or Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy handheld by the way Nintendo's focus on strict quality control and for the time advanced graphical capabilities made the NES its highest selling console in North America and bringing the console raised back to life which led us into the fourth generation that featured the turbo graphics the first 16-bit console and more famously the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo or SNES cartridges were still dominant but it was during this time that optical media CDs to be precise started to look pretty attractive the higher capacity of CD ROMs compared to cartridges led them to be used in next-generation consoles like the Sega Saturn and the original Sony Playstation at the start of the fifth generation these consoles were among the first to bring real 3d graphics into the living room CDs also had the advantage of being cheaper making it easier to produce copies of games in bulk leading both console manufacturers and game developers to prefer them over cartridges thanks to their higher margins however the Nintendo 64 and did manage to enjoy success as a cartridge based system with nintendo touting quick loading times as a big advantage over discs but by the sixth generation well that was where the beginning of the move towards a more PC like architecture to make consoles more useful as general-purpose devices that could do more than just play games really happened and we also saw a shift away from cartridges entirely and towards DVDs from CDs which could hold significantly more data making it possible to develop games with better visuals and more content like full voiceovers this generation also saw some of the first experimentation with online play as well as both flash and hard drive based storage so you wouldn't have to fiddle about with memory cards a feature found on both the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox it wasn't until the 7th generation of consoles hit the market in 2005 with systems like the PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii that we finally got now standard features like HD resolutions that is as long as we're not talking about Nintendo online play and motion controls this generation also included support for new disc formats like Blu ray and the long since forgotten HD DVD as well as large hard drives that enabled companies to make the internet a very popular way for gamers to download more content the current generation of consoles the 8th gender raishin including the Xbox one PlayStation 4 and Wii U has brought us significant performance improvements those were long overdue as well as innovations like the Nintendo 3ds which allows the user to see a stereoscopic 3d image without glasses most of the changes in the eighth generation however revolve around further integration with other media such as web browsing streaming visual media social media sharing and even streaming what you're doing on your console to other devices for playing on the go with Sony's PS Vita or at a computer with Microsoft's Xbox app but I mean come on Linus why would you buy a console at all of any generation when you could enjoy your PC and all its glory well honestly consoles aren't as powerful as pcs we know this but they're made for gamers who may not care as much about the absolute highest frame rates or resolutions and want to kick back on the couch and play but with that said as the 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