After the release of spacewars more and more computer games
start to be crated and people loved them but at the time to have a home
computer could cost a lot and sometimes could be hard to get the games. After
some time people came up the idea to opened arcades. They were a very big hit
with young children but then some companies came up with the idea to make a way
to play computer games at home, so that people could just stay in there houses
and not have to pay more to carry one after they die or fail, and so came the
birth of the game consoles.
The first generation of game consoles did sell well but a
lot of them only had 1 game built into them. The Magnavox Odyssey, which was
the first game console, did have changeable games but was only one of the few
that did this. The second generation of game consoles were all made to have
changeable games and this is when games industry really started to take off. By
the third generation game consoles were very well know of and many kids wanted
them, to play the best games because some games were no longer been made for
arcades. This brings us to 2 companies that made a very big hit in this time, Sega
and Nintendo.
The SG-1000 was
Sega first console to be released by Sega in 1983, on that very same day
Nintendo released the Famicom in japan. The SG-1000 was sadly not that very
successful.
Nintendo had made a games console before 1977 – 1980 but they were only released in japan only. It was not until 1983 when Nintendo released the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) on July 15 but it was not until 1985 was it released in North America and 1986 in Europe. It was the bestselling console of its time. Nintendo then began to licensing third-party developers so that they could make and sell their own games for the NES.
2
years later Sega released their second gaming console, the Master System also
known as the Sega Master System or SMS. It was first released
in japan in 1985 but was named the Sega mark 3. It was then redesigned
and redesigned the Master System for release in 1986 in North America, 1987 in Europe and Japan. The Master system was made and released to
compete with the NES, that killed there first console the SG-1000. The Master
System did not do the job. Nintendo had a greater market share advantage in
Japan and North America but not all hope was lost when the Master System made a
big hit in Europe.
Sage carried on making games
consoles up until the 1999 with their last console the Dreamcast but Nintendo
are still making consoles to this day but have not been doing great because the
rise of a new console, That really started to take off, the PlayStation.
Websites used
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Master_System
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