The 7th generation

These are the 7th generation consoles, PS3, Xbox 360,PSP, nintendo DS, nintendo wii, PS2 and the Xbox.

The big games for each con sole is:

• PS3 - Uncharted 2
• Xbox 360 - Halo ODST
• Nintendo DS - Pokemon and brain training
• Nintendo WII - Wii Fit
• PSP - Monster Hunter Frredom Unite

The playstation 3 allows you to play against other people around the world using an internet connection. the format for the game is blue-ray disc the basic model had a 20 GB hard drive and the premium model has a 60 GB hard drive.

Xbox 360 - one of its main features is Xbox live which allows you to play against other people online and allows you to download game demos, music and many other things, you can also watch TV from sky.

Nintendo DS - on this console you have a WI - FI connection to the Internet so you can play against other people within a short range another feature that it has is pictoChat which allows people to communicate with other people with a DS.

Nintendo WII - this consoles controller is a handheld remote that detects movement, another feature that it has is WiiConnect24 which allows you to receive messages and updates from the Internet while on standby.

PSP - this is the first handheld console to use an optical disc format the Universal Media Disc. you can also play UMD movies and you can access the internet with Wii - Fi and on the latest PSP which is the PSP Go you have bluetooth.

The rise of Nintendo

In July 1983 a company from japan called Nintendo released a 8 bit games console called the Nintendo entertainment system (NES) bringing out successful arcade games such as Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr and Popeye, but due to a bad chip it didn't start selling until the end of 1984. Nintendo had brought the games industry back into business.

Pong/Atari and the birth of video games

Pong was the first ever comercialy made arcade game created in 1972 by the company atari wich was formed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. http://www.ponggame.org/. The first machine to have this game on was called the Brown Box which was a 13 inch black and white TV in a cabinate but people found it too hard to play. the first game console that people could buy for their homes was called the magnavox odyssey which was released in august 1972, which was designed by Ralph Baer.














Another early games console was the Atari 2600 which was released in 1977 and it was created with a microprocessor hardware, it's games were stored on cassette tapes, some of its most popular games were combat and pac-man.the atari 2600 became the most popular console from the second generation consooles.