Games Consoles

Astro Wars was a table-top Space Game with many unique features: multi coloured invaders scoring up to 10,000 points, magnified display, unique exciting sound effects, built in automatic bonus game, five lanes of action, five lives per game and four ...

Ahh, Atari. I had the Atari 2600 and the Atari 5200. It was the start of the video game console generation at home for me. I remember Atari's competition was the Intellivision from Mattel Electronics and the Magnavox Odyssey. I believe ...

The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, introduced in 1982, was like the Nintendo Light and a rival to the ColecoVision. I didn't have one but my friend did. It featured games such as Pacman, Frogger, and Q-Bert. It ran on a 16 ...

This was the poor man's NES/ SMS.I felt really bad for my mate who got one of these the same Christmas I got my SMS. It wasn't really much more than a souped up 2600 and had nothing that made ...

WonderSwan was a Japanese hand held game console released by Bandai in 1999. I never actually had one of these but I remember a few friends 'importing' them, which was a bit of a waste of time, as only around 10% ...

For my tenth birthday in 1992 I had a choice between a Barcode Battler, a Game Boy or a Sega Game Gear and stupidly chose the Barcode Battler thinking it was really futuristic! What a complete let down it was ...

The ColecoVision was Coleco Industries' home video game console, released in August, 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, the ability to play other home consoles' video games (notably the Sears chain in the U.S. and the Atari ...

I remember having and playing an electronic hand-held game simply called "Football" and "Football II". It consisted of a small screen with little red blips on top and a hand-full of buttons on the bottom. It made an annoying "beep" ...

Galaxy Invaders, as you can imagine, was based on the popular arcade game Space Invaders. It was a yellow-coloured, narrow console with a big square red "firing" botton on the right and a metallic silver joy-stick on the left. It ...

Ah, the Game Boy. I never had one, which was just as well. I borrowed one on many occassions. The little video box came with various games that you could buy on little cartridges. Super Mario I think, but for ...

Merlin was this little red box that you held in your hand - the precursor to Game Boy. 9 buttons that lit up and sound effects that were SOOOO awesome! You could play up to 9 games - Tic Tac ...

What was the first handheld game console? Did Sony, or Sinclair, or Amstrad make it? Nope it was “Microvision”, it was the very first handheld game console – that could be said to be like modern ones - like the Gameboy ...

This was a hand held electronic game from 1981. It's highly addictive and was based on a PAC-MAN style concept. You ate the fruit, avoided the ghosts and progressed onto tougher levels. For the record, i just re-purchased one. ...

Nothing more than a grey box with two buttons on the front and a flip-up lid, the NES was my first real foray into computer gaming...if you don't count the Acorn Electron! The NES pioneered the plus-sign style controller, although the ...

Nintendo Game and Watch were those little handheld electronic games with the annoying sounds which were popular in the beginning of the 80s One of the most popular titles was Donkey Kong, in which your mission was to save a girl ...

The Philips Videopac was a silver-coloured console with touch sensitive keys and cartridge type games. I had one in the Eighties and it's still in my Mum and Dad's attic! The Philips Videopac+ G7400 was released in 1983 in Europe ...

In early to mid 1997, it became known that Sega was working on its successor to the Saturn, code-named Black Belt. On May 21, 1998 Sega unveiled its next-generation console called Dreamcast to the world. It was the first console capable ...

The Game Gear was released in Japan in October 1989, in the US the following year and in Europe the year after that. It was indeed superior to the Game Boy both graphically and ergonomically, however, its three hour battery ...

The SEGA Master System was SEGA's answer to the NES. It featured games that were infinitely less popular than those on the NES (with a few exceptions, of course... the most prominent being "Ghouls N Ghosts"). I recall the gamepad being ...

You had to plug the Sega Mega CD onto the top of your Sega Mega Drive and you used to be able to play CDs. ...

The Sega Mega Drive is to games consoles in the 90s as George Best was to football 30 years previously. Video gaming and football were obviously around before them but once these guys appeared on the scene, the future would ...

Sega's 32 bit Saturn system didn't enjoy the success of the Mega Dive/ Genesis but it was a 2D fighters dream! Most of the rare sought after games came when the coffin was being put in the grave. Arcade perfect ...

SNES was a great video game console which followed on from the populer Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Super Mario was the game you got with it, and I also had Mario Kart which I couldn't keep off! The games were ...

The Japanese version of this console was called the PC Engine and was badged as the TurboGrafx 16 for the North American market. It was very popular with third party companies and consumers but the U.S. version had lackluster support. ...

One of the first computer game machines in the 80s was Vectrex made by MB. You had to put in a cartridge for different games and used various coloured plastic screens clipped over the monitor to change the colour of ...