History of Gaming Consoles From Atari to Nintendo to Playstation  -       AZ TRT S05 EP18 (233) 5-5-2024    What We Learned This Week: Odyssey by Magnavox, first home gaming system Atari created both Home Pong & then Atari 2600 Nintendo Game Systems - NES, Wii, Switch + Super Mario Bros & Legend of Zelda games Sega Genesis & Sonic game, Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox   Guest: Ben B     Notes:   Main Consoles – Name, Distributer, release Year & some sales #’s   1st Gen Odyssey from Magnavox 1972 Homepong from Atari 1975 Atari 2600 1977     2nd Gen Intellivision 1980 Colecovision 1980 Atari 5200   *Crash of 1983   3rd Gen Famicon – Nintendo in Japan 1983 NES Nintendo 1985 61 mil Sega master System 1986 Atari 7800     4th Gen Gameboy Nintendo 1989 115 mil   Sega Genesis 1989 35 mil Atari Lynx Super famicon 1990 Super Nintendo 1991     5th Gen Sony Playstation - 1994 100 mil PS 2 2000 158 mil   6th Gen Nintendo 64 1996 Sega Dreamcast Microsoft Xbox 2001   Gameboy Advance 2001 Ganecube 2001   7th Gen Playstation Portable PSP 2004 Nintendo DS Nintendo Wii 2006 100 mil + Xbox 360 2005 80 mil PS 3 2006 80 mil   8th Gen RDS 2011 PS 4 2013 Xbox 2013   9th Gen Nintendo Switch 2017 Microsoft Xbox X & S 2020 Sony Playstation 5 2020       Failures – Comodore CDTV 25k Atari Jaguar 100k Nintendo Virtual Boy 1995 770k Sega Saturn 1999 9 mil ? Wii U 2012 13 mil     More Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600     Sources: The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox by Evan Amos https://www.amazon.com/Game-Console-2-0-Photographic-History/ https://nostarch.com/game-console-20 Revised and updated since the first edition’s celebrated 2018 release, The Game Console 2.0 is an even bigger archival collection of vividly detailed photos of more than 100 video-game consoles. This ultimate archive of gaming history spans five decades and nine distinct generations, chronologically covering everything from market leaders to outright failures, and tracing the gaming industry’s rise, fall, and monumental resurgence. The book’s 2nd edition features more classic game consoles and computers, a section on retro gaming in the modern era, and dozens of new entries — including super-rare finds, such the Unisonic Champion 2711, and the latest ninth-generation consoles. You’ll find coverage of legendary systems like the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari 2600, NES, and the Commodore 64; systems from the ‘90s and 2000s; modern consoles like the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5; and consoles you never knew existed. Get a unique peek at the hardware powering the world’s most iconic video-game systems with The Game Console 2.0 — the perfect gift for geeks of all stripes and every gamer’s must-have coffee-table book. Author Bio  Evan Amos is a video game photographer and historian, whose contributions to the public domain comprise the ultimate visual reference for every generation of consoles. His work has appeared in hundreds of articles, YouTube videos, and popular media outlets like Kotaku. He is also the creator and curator of the Vanamo Online Game Museum, home to the most accessible, widely used digital preservation archive in the video game realm.   Toys That Built America https://www.history.com/shows/the-toys-that-built-america   How Super Mario Helped Nintendo Conquer the Video Game World Originally a second banana character in 'Donkey Kong' in 1981, Mario went on to conquer the video game world.   https://www.history.com/news/super-mario-history-nintendo-donkey-kong-facts excerpt: "Donkey Kong" was a huge suc