Video Game Console Lists : List of Video Game Consoles, List of Video Game Console Emulators, List of Last Games Released on Video Game Consoles

• ISBN13: 9781156252314
• ISBN10: 1156252318
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This is a list of video game consoles by the era they occurred in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era, though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type. Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. The 128-bit era is the final era where this practice is viewed as appropriate. Also included in this list are handheld game consoles, which are usually of lower computational power than the set-top consoles of the same era. Consoles marketed and sold as general-purpose computers or that can play only a set of built-in games are not included. * Consoles of the early 1970s, such as Pong and Magnavox Odyssey were often inaccurately called "analog" but actually discrete logic circuits. ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=565944