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"The history of consoles"

In October 1958 a man named Willy Hinginbotham invented a rather dull game on a thing called an oscilloscope it was a game of tennis for two players, so in October 1958 video games had been born. It was a huge step for the entertainment industry, which would make them millions, if not billions in years to come.

In the 1970ís the Nintendo came to life with the Nintendo ëgame ëní watchí which enabled people to play games like ëDonkey Kongí in the palm of their hands.
Also in the 70ís was a coin-operated machine where you had to ìavoid missing a ball in order to get a high scoreî so the video game industry got a boost in sales because of the coin-op machine.

The next giant leap for video games was in June 1986, when Sega revealed themselves with the Sega master system, it wasnít to be as good as the forthcoming NES in 1983 which has great graphics good controllers and great sound. Super Mario brothers were to show just how good the Nes would be.

The Game Boy, which was launched in December 1989, which was rather large and bulky but it was to become the most successful games console ever! With the NES, Snes, Gameboy Colour, Nintendo 64 and recently revealed Gamecube to be launched in spring summer 2002, Nintendo are one of the most successful manufacturers and game developers ever.

Until June 1996 when the Nintendo 64 was launched the Sony Playstation dominated the market. The disadvantages about the Nintendo 64 cartridges was their unreliability, this caused a few problems for Nintendo, and they often ìhung/frozeî and that they were expensive to make, so therefor the selling prices of the games had to be high.
Nintendo lost out on some sales because of their high selling prices, but they did make up for their losses with some excellent games like Mario 64. Oh what a beauty! (Hats of to Shigsy).

For Nintendoís latest console the Gamecube (which is coming our way in spring summer 2,000) Nintendo have picked themselves up after their dreadful mistake and have decided to use disks for the Gamecube. Letís hope that the Gamecube works out for Nintendo.
In the future other consoles will most definitely be using disks, who knows there could be something better than disks, looming in the future.

I apologise for the badly named topic but the tilte was a little bit ruhsed as i had to go for a bus about 1 minuite later

RumpleSmoothSkin wrote:
> doghnut monster wrote:
> howdoya rename it?

Nice english.

Thanx I think.

So, are you starting to regret the fact that you actually asked everyone if there was any decent posts before you posted you GAD winner?

:D

Res�vilfan wrote:
> Why does everyone think Nintendo started it all? they originally made games for
> the Atari 2600 so there ;-)


Nitendo were actually a card making company! They made playing cards for little kids like doghnut.

Beta_Dragon wrote:
> I would imagine that's up to the moderator... You could try asking, but I doubt
> he'd oblige... Tony, I think that's his name.

Hi meka.

Why does everyone think Nintendo started it all? they originally made games for the Atari 2600 so there ;-)

doghnut monster wrote:
> howdoya rename it?

Nice english.

I would imagine that's up to the moderator... You could try asking, but I doubt he'd oblige... Tony, I think that's his name.

You type history of the gaming world when this actual forum is called the future of gaming?

Now then....how completely small do you feel right now?

Go back to your nursery and think about what you have done....


..its ok... mum wont be that mad.

howdoya rename it?