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Dec 24, 2023 · This page serves as a directory to all of the areas documented by the wiki. From those pages, one can reach the details about other devices, if applicable.

May 10, 2022 · The 3rd generation of home game consoles, commonly considered as having began in 1985 with the release of the NES, and ending in the period between 1989 (release of TurboGrafx-16 and Sega Genesis) and 1991 (release of the SNES).

Sega's catastrophically messy followup to their greatly successful Genesis/Mega Drive. Releasing on May 11th, 1995 in North America, the Saturn's 2x SH-2 CPUs, 4 MB RAM (across 3 purposes), and up to 16.77 million colors between 320×224 and 704×224 was a quite powerful piece of hardware, but too deeply complex to be easily leveraged by programmers.

This page is for the first PlayStation system, not the series of consoles. For this, see Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PlayStation 4, Sony PlayStation 5, Sony PlayStation Portable, Sony PlayStation Vita, and Sony PlayStation Classic.. Sony's pioneering entry into the video games market. Releasing on September 9th, 1995 in North America, the PS1's R3000A CPU, 3 MB of RAM (across ...

The 6th generation of home game consoles, commonly considered as having began in the period between 1999 (release of the Dreamcast) and 2001 (release of the GameCube and Xbox), ending in the period between 2005 (release of the Xbox 360) and 2006 (release of the PS3 and Wii).

includes Famicom Disk System. Nintendo's big break into the video game market. Releasing on October 18th, 1985 in the USA, the NES' combination between smart marketing, enticing games, and capable hardware effectively forged the path for both it's success, and the success of the video games market as a whole.

includes PSX DVR. Sony's record-smashing and astronomically popular followup to the PS1. Releasing on October 26th, 2000 in North America, the PS2's “Emotion Engine” CPU + GPU (16.7 mil colors; 640×480 or 1920×1080(!!) with mods) + 32 MB of RAM wasn't extremely powerful, but this did not matter to the market. Selling 155 million units over more than a decade, the PS2 became the best ...

Apr 4, 2022 · Why? Despite losing 2 controller ports compared to the first version of the 5200, the 2 controller system eliminates a notoriously unreliable and inconvenient “RF switch” box, which you may be familiar with if you have seen the AVGN episode for the Atari 5200. This box in essence, contains all video output and electric throughput that the 5200 requires, and for some reason, Atari made it ...

Sega's ill-fated final games system. Releasing on the memorable September 9th, 1999 in North America, the Dreamcast's SH-4 CPU, 26 MB of RAM (across 3 purposes), and 16.77 million colors at up to 640×480 was very powerful for the time, but simply not enough to bring Sega out of the financial pit it had dug itself over the past 6 years. Selling 9.13 …