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    Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course

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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    Uhhh, ColecoVision? Jeez, it has an Atari adapter, and 3d glasses, a huge trackball, and ADAM Computer.
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    wheres the apple pippin?
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    Image of FurySamurai72 FurySamurai72
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    What about Sega-CD and Virtuaboy? What are they? Generation 4.5? You can't possibly lump them in with sega genesis and game boy color can you?
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    12/16/09

    @FurySamurai72: sega cd is 4th gen... its mentioned.

    the 5th gen was kicked off with the 3d0 and jaguar in 1993, so the virtual boy would be 5th gen as well.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    I still have my Atari 2600 plus a second one with Sears branding when they sold it briefly.
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    Image of Pookiewood Pookiewood
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    What No Vectrex? I don't know where my parents found this but man it was fun. We had an NES and a Genesis so when we first got this we were thinking,"What is this crap?" It was really fun though. Man there was a Tanks Game, There was like an Asteroid kind of game with Alien ships that you shoot and they'd keep dividing into 2 or more ships everytime you shot them. There was another side scrolling Ship game that had you in a cave and you had to watch out for Falling things and turrets and ships trying to shoot you. Man GOOD TIMES! I wish we still had that I need to call my dad to see if it's stashed somewhere at his house.

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    12/16/09

    @Pookiewood: Mine was a Sears!
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    Image of Pookiewood Pookiewood
    12/16/09

    @maven2k: That's cool you actually got it from Sears. It had some challenging games back on it. Many tears! LOL!
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    Um, hey Mark - both the 3DO and Jaguar *are* on that timeline, in the upper-half, in 1993 (no image, but they're mentioned as "notable releases").

    SkipErnst has a point, though, the Coleco Gemini (or was it the Adam? Or that was with the keyboard... anyway) might have been put on there, I remember lusting after that console too!
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    Image of Hank Scorpio Hank Scorpio
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    Someone help me out here, because I don't see it listed, but it was a pretty big game at the time it came out, if I recall. I don't remember the name of the game, though.

    Basically, you were a ship on a segmented 3-D (line/frame) playing field. Each level was a different shape. You spun a knob to move around the outer edge of the field while you shot at opponents moving up the segments at you. At the end of the level, you you shot forward and had to avoid spikes that grew in the various segments.

    What the hell was that game? I spent so much time playing it, but I can't remember.
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    12/16/09

    @Hank Scorpio: It sounds like Tempest?
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    Image of Hank Scorpio Hank Scorpio
    12/16/09

    @CSX321: YES! Thank you!

    That was driving me nuts.
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    Image of Schmittroth Schmittroth
    12/16/09

    @Hank Scorpio: I'm guessing it was Tempest
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    12/16/09

    @Hank Scorpio: I was never any good at Tempest. The only game I ever really played well was Star Castle, another vector-based game in the early 80s. I had the high score one week at the local arcade. It was a block from our high school, and we were allowed to leave campus back in those days. So, naturally, we spent our lunch time and money playing games. :D
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    Image of moeblw moeblw
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    Prince of Persia does not belong on that timeline.
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    Image of YardanCabaret YardanCabaret
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    Wow, I didn't realize '97 was such an important year for video game releases. Goldeneye revolutionizing multiplayer and FPS, FF7 taking RPGs to a whole new level, Gran Turismo which brought a massive overhaul to racing games and of course GTA (even though it wasn't until the 3rd in the series that this forever changed 3rd person action games the 1st one is still important). Played the crap out of all of them, I just hadn't really realized they all came out the same year.
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    Image of Aetius Aetius
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    I've owned a few consoles over the years but the PS2 will always be my favorite. I find the current gen of consoles waaay too complicated. PS2 gen era consoles - put disc in, skip past opening cinematic, start game and you're good to go...just save once in a while. Current gen - fancy menus, go online, skip cinematics, patch, update, select a million things and MAYBE then start playing.
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    Image of SkipErnst SkipErnst
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    Hm. What a shocker. Most comments about an abridged timeline are about what it is missing. Lest I be hypocritical, I guess I should avoid mentioning that I don't see the only game system (Coleco Gemini) I ever owned on here.

    ... oops.
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    Image of Duckspwn_Reborn Duckspwn_Reborn
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    2005: A true revolution in video game history as developers of consoles realize that they can pull off huge amounts of bullshit that, in any other market, would cause their products to be shunned and abandoned. Remarkably, they discover that gamers will simply sit there and take it while at the same time defending their ridiculously flawed "console".
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    Image of yantelope yantelope
    12/16/09

    @Duckspwn_Reborn: " huge amounts of bullshit that, in any other market, would cause their products to be shunned and abandoned" Not true, look at the cellphone market.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    12/16/09

    @yantelope: Or movies, books, television, microwaves, clothes, beer, soda, etc.
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    Image of LinkinPain LinkinPain
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    my first console was the super nintendo now i just own a xbox 360 which im not too happy about.. i want free xbox live =[
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    Image of joe.glass joe.glass
    12/16/09

    @LinkinPain: You're not too happy about the ~$4.20/month for Live? Just ask someone for a live membership for Whatever winter time celebration you choose; or your birthday.
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    Image of Deckard Deckard
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    I noticed some missing consoles. These were significant in terms of technology, but not sales. Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx.
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    12/16/09

    @Deckard: Jaguar was terrible from all stand points, tech, sales and worse, actual games.
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    Image of Deckard Deckard
    12/16/09

    @deliciousburglar: No
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    12/16/09

    @Deckard: was the fact that it used the same CPU of the Genesis that makes it a significant for tech?
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    Image of Deckard Deckard
    12/16/09

    @deliciousburglar: Two reasons I can think of: 64-bit ALU, chipset was used in the Arcade game Area 51.
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    12/16/09

    @Deckard:
    Area 51 game used the 68020 in combination, so i am still having a hard time seeing how this applies to the Jaguar being a significant tech advance.

    it also added more RAM making the 64 bit meaningful vs the 2 megs of RAM the Jaguar had (nullifying much if not all the benefits of 64 bit.)

    I played the Jaguar, it was one of the worst video game experiences i have ever had.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/16/09

    In reply to Video Game Timeline: A 2-Minute Crash History Course
    Very nice, but very general timeline. I own every home console from the 2600 onward (working on handhelds), and there's more than a few omissions. Saturn? TurboGrafx? Vectrex? Colecovision? Where are you, beloved, less-successful consoles?
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    Image of SmokeyRivers SmokeyRivers
    12/16/09

    @Segador: Sega Saturn and TurboGrafx are both listed on that picture....
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/16/09

    @SmokeyRivers: Good call, I missed those.

    edit: So is 3DO... I must have not been looking very hard.
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