Name: The History of Video Game Consoles | TIME
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-5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Xbox One. -Wii U, PlayStation

様態の副詞

4, Xbox One - we're officially in the eighth generation

of video game consoles. We made it. If you're as

old as me, you feel old, maybe a little creepy.

Maybe your back hurts when you get up in the

morning. Maybe the other parts of your body just hurt

for no reason. That's how long video game consoles has

been around. -My very first video game console was a

NES FamiCon. -The Gameboy. -Sega Genesis. -Probably the ColecoVision. -Was

the Nintendo 64. -The original NES, man. -It's important to

look back and ask ourselves, "How did we get here?

How did the industry evolve to where it is today?"

In the '60s, a man named Ralph Baer was working

at a defense company in Nashua, New Hampshire. He thought

to himself, "Why can't I hook something up to this

TV to make it more fun?" So he got together

with two of his engineers, and they cobbled together the

first of seven Brown Boxes. These were video game consoles,

early video game consoles that played simple games. They eventually

sold the final Brown Box to Magnavox, which rebranded it

as the Magnavox Odyssey. -From most of the 20th century,

the idea of actually being able to play video games

in your house was the fantasy. You couldn't do it.

Not until the Magnavox Odyssey, where people were actually able

to play video games in their homes. -The Odyssey itself

had a really rough start. I mean, it came out

and it was marketed incredibly poorly-- -Odyssey, the electronic game

of the future that lets you do your own thing

on television. -It was brand new technology that people didn't

get. -The Odyssey was odd. It's the best word to

describe-- But it was really the Atari 2600 that kicked

everything off for me as a home console player. When

you look back now at the Atari 2600 games, they

all look very basic, but at that time, they were

nothing short of amazing. They-- -The Atari 2600 was the

game console that everybody had. Well, I didn't have it

and I was really jealous of my neighbor who had

one. But this one was iconic. This was the system

that got people crazy about playing video games at home.

-It was as ubiquitous as a refrigerator or a TV

in most households. -In the successful years of the Atari

2600 we got to over $2 Billion business in the

United States, only on video games. It's kind of a

number that is important to understand because we will understand

what happened when video games go into what this universally

recognized as the big crash of video games in 1983.

-Game over. -There was a video game crash as a

result of just this flood of terrible games on the

2600. And for awhile, it seemed like maybe home video

games and video game consoles had just been a fad.

-And video games really went out of fashion altogether. -Then

something happened. What happened was Nintendo happened. Nintendo, a company

that has been around making trading cards for nearly a

century. They decided, "We're gonna make a video game system."

The key thing is they didn't call it a video

game system. In the United States, they marketed it as

a toy. They have Rob, the robot. They have the

Zapper, which was a little gun you plugged in to

the console. They didn't want people to think that it

was a video game machine because that had a stink

to it because of the Atari 2600 and the crash.

-With the third generation of home video game systems, it

was not a fair fight. The Nintendo Entertainment System mopped

the floor with the Sega Master System. -The Nintendo Entertainment

System is the console that changed everything. This is the

system, the little gray box that shipped and suddenly connected

with everyone. Whether it'd be Mario-- This is-- this is

Mario Brothers. This is the start of everything for Nintendo

and for the industry as well, all right? All of

a sudden, the new games had what they didn't have

before - a mascot, someone you could connect with. -It

was not just something that was big as a video

game system, but it helped launch Nintendo into being just

a cultural force. So everything from Nintendo cereal-- -Nintendo Cereal

System is a super power system of nutritious breakfast-- -Or

Fred Savage's famous, or infamous movie The Wizard. Power Glove,

this ridiculous glove that you would wear, in theory, to

control games better. It was more than just a gaming

system. It was a cultural phenomenon. -There can be only

one. -Sega challenges you with the ultimate video game -

the Sega Master System. -When I started my career in

this industry, I was testing games on the Sega Master

System, and quite frankly I didn't even know it had

existed. The only thing that was in my world was

the Nintendo Entertainment System at that time. -The Sega Master

System is notable in that it's what brought Sega into

home video games. -I saw-- I saw it, I put

my little pudgy finger on the glass, I said, "Mom,

that's what I want for my birthday. What is that?"

That was the second question. And they made that happen

and I got the Sega Master System. And man did

I pick a losing horse in this race, becoming a

Sega kid over a Nintendo kid, but it was one

of those things where that was your source of pride.

That was your identity as video games were getting a

foothold [unk], right? -There's certainly a rivalry, you know, somebody

else had a Sega Master System and you had a

Nintendo [unk]. You know, you picked sides in a war.

You kinda-- you had one, you didn't have the other.

And it was the beginning of a rivalry between Nintendo