Video gaming console

Between the 20th and 19th century when science had already entered in

real world and invented many mode for entertainment and business
purpose and meanwhile the computer age grown up slowly.in 1950 the
first video gaming console came in market .video gaming console
nothing but just like an electronic interactive entertained
computer .it produces a video display signal which can be used with a
display device (a television, monitor, etc.) to display a video game.
It’s designed for customers  to buy then and play games on it.in that
era it was a good product for making money for business companies as
they give a new mode of spent their time on television or monitor
without losing their energy.
The first video game console came in the decade of 1950-60.it’s based
on not analog signal but they used vector display in it. In 1972 that
Magnavox released the first home video game console which could be
connected to a TV set—the Magnavox Odyssey, invented by Ralph H. Baer.
After many video console made but they did not any good success like
Atari 2600 and Fairchild in 1976.\
After the good initiative in market a sudden crash in market in 1977
due to poor quality of video games and rapidly growth of home
computers, this condition remain till 1983.
In the 1983 Nintendo released the Family Computer (or Famicom) in
Japan, the Famicom supported high-resolution sprites and tiled
backgrounds, but with more colors. This allowed Famicom games to be
longer and have more detailed graphics with most popular games ever
Super Mario bros. and A Light Gun . so in this decade many companies
owned their own gaming console and they all above from Atari 2600.
Now there was a competition between Nintendo and SEGA but in 90’s
Nintendo lead the market .but after this in 1988 SEGA next-generation
console, the Mega Drive/Genesis, which was released in Japan on
October 29, 1988 and after 1990 it released in Europe and USA and this
was the mega successful for SEGA as their splendid work shown in Sonic
the Hedgehog. Sega extended the Mega Drive with the Mega CD/Sega CD,
to provide increased storage space for multimedia-based games.
Now in the next generation of gaming console first lead by Atari
launched its JAGUAR and 3DO. Both these systems are very powerful to
NES and SEGA but this are failed in market after a short span of
period as 3DO was hard to programming and JAGUAR was very costly.
So afterward Sega's Saturn, Sony's PlayStation, and the Nintendo 64
were released that consoles started to become popular. The Saturn and
PlayStation used CDs to store games, while the N64 used cartridges.
All three cost far less than the 3DO, and were easier to program than
the Jaguar.
Sony's PlayStation was released in Japan on December 3, 1994 and in
North America on September 9, 1995. Becoming the first video game
system to sell over 100 million consoles. Sony released a redesigned,
smaller version of the PlayStation entitled the 'PSone' on July 7,
2000.
As Nintendo64 uses only the 64-bit architecture and provide ROM
cartridges which are very fast in loading than memory card and prevent
some kind of piracy happening in gaming console.

The next generation of video gaming console used DVDs for gaming
media. And further more the industries also work on online gaming and
implementing both hard drives and flash drives.
Sega implemented a special type of optical media called the GD-ROM.
These discs were created in order to prevent software piracy.
After the big success, PlayStation 2 was released on October 26, 2000
as the follow-up to its highly successful PlayStation, and was also
the first home game console to be able to play DVDs. it the best
selling console of all time to date.
In the race of video gaming console Microsoft launched it’s gaming
console as XBOX came with hard disk for saving games and load data. It
was launched on 15th November 2001.
The Nintendo GameCube, released November 18, 2001 in North America,
was Nintendo's fourth home video game console and the first console by
the company to use optical media instead of cartridges.
After this all in the next generation where technologies reached to
its highest level Microsoft’s XBOX 360, Sony’s Play Station 3 and
Nintendo’s WII was released till now. These gaming consoles provide HD
quality of presentation of gaming with best peripheral devices like
sensors and virtual console and motion sensing.

Chirag Gor

Final Yr ECE