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The Xbox 360 launched in North America on November 22, 2005, and this was a big part of the move into high-definition console gaming. Its launch included Call of Duty 2, Project Gotham Racing 3, Kameo, and Perfect Dark Zero. You can look at...
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The original Xbox came out in North America on November 15, 2001. Microsoft was getting into a console business that already had some very established names, and Halo: Combat Evolved gave people a reason to pay attention immediately. That g...
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PlayStation 5 launched on November 12, 2020, in markets including the United States and Japan, with Europe and other regions following on November 19. The SSD was a major part of the hardware change, helping games load and move data much fa...
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PlayStation 4 launched in North America on November 15, 2013, reached Europe two weeks later, and arrived in Japan in February 2014. Sharing gameplay became a much more ordinary part of using the console. The DualShock 4 put a Share button...
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PlayStation 3 arrived in Japan and North America in November 2006, with Europe following in March 2007. This was PlayStation moving into HD, Blu-ray, and a much more connected console experience. The system could handle games, movies, downl...
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PlayStation 2 launched in Japan in March 2000, followed by North America in October and Europe in November. Being able to play DVDs mattered a lot at the time. You could bring home a new game system and use it for movies without buying anot...
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The original PlayStation arrived in Japan on December 3, 1994, then North America on September 9, 1995, and Europe later that month. This was a huge period of change for console games. Developers were figuring out what they could do with 3D...
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The Dreamcast launched in Japan in November 1998 and reached North America on September 9, 1999. Europe followed that October. Sega was already building internet connectivity into the console with a modem, at a time when getting a game syst...
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The Nintendo 64 came out in Japan in June 1996, North America that September, and Europe in March 1997. This was the generation where Nintendo's familiar characters started moving through fully 3D worlds, and Super Mario 64 is probably the...
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The Sega CD was an add-on for the Genesis, released first in Japan as the Mega-CD in 1991 and then in North America in 1992. You still needed the main console. The CD hardware opened up much more storage for recorded audio, dialogue, animat...
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The Super Nintendo began as the Super Famicom in Japan in 1990, followed by North America in 1991 and Europe in 1992. The move from the NES was noticeable in the graphics, music, and the amount of detail developers could put into their game...
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The Genesis launched in Japan as the Mega Drive in 1988, reached North America in 1989, and came to Europe under the Mega Drive name in 1990. This was Sega's 16-bit console, and its arcade background showed up throughout the library. Games...
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The Master System belongs to Sega's 8-bit period, before the Genesis. Its hardware family developed from the Japanese Mark III, and the Master System reached the United States in 1986 and Europe in 1987. Its history also changes depending o...
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The original Nintendo started in Japan as the Famicom in 1983. The redesigned Nintendo Entertainment System began its American rollout in 1985, with the broader release following in 1986. It arrived after the North American console market h...
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Arcades were developing alongside all of this. Atari's Pong came out in 1972, and games like Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong helped make video games a regular part of public entertainment. Different machines could have c...
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Atari goes back to the early 1970s, when Pong helped turn arcade video games into something a much bigger audience recognized. Then the Atari VCS arrived in 1977, the system later known as the 2600. That was a huge part of the move toward h...
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I’ve been gaming for about four decades. The first system my dad gave me was an Atari, and I played almost every Atari game ever made. Quite a bit, too. I’m not talking about trying one or two games. I spent extensive time playing them. On...
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The next few posts are going to be me explaining some of my history with video games. I’m going to talk about games I’ve played, systems I’ve spent time on, things I’ve done in older games, and how much experience I have with retro gaming....
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I've been reading quite a bit tonight, more than I was expecting. It's already pretty late. I'm about to hop in the shower but before I do, I just wanted to come on here. I ended up reading. I started tonight with Grimm Fairy Tales. I was w...
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Damn, I love Wolverine. https://t.co/yNTDQsKfgP
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