List of video game consoles
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This is a list of video game consoles by the era they appeared in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era (even though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type). Also included in this list is handheld game consoles, which are usually of lower power than the home consoles of the same era.
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Seventh generation era (2004-present)
- Nintendo Revolution (Expected in 2006)
- PlayStation 3 (March 2006 release)
- Xbox 360 (November 2005 release)
- PlayStation Portable (2005)
- Nintendo DS (2004)
Sixth generation era (1999-present)
- Ngage (2003)
- N-gage QD (2004)
- GameCube (2001)
- Xbox (2001)
- Game Boy Advance (2001)
- Game Boy Advance SP (2003)
- Game Boy Micro (Fall 2005 release)
- PlayStation 2 (2000)
- Sega Dreamcast (1999)
32/64-bit era (1993-1999)
- Game Boy Color (1998)
- Nintendo 64 (1996) (64-bit)
- Virtual Boy (1995)
- Sega Saturn (1994)
- PlayStation (1994)
- Atari Jaguar (1993) (64-bit)
- 3DO (1993)
- PC-FX (1994)
16-bit era (1989-1994)
- Philips CD-i (1994)
- Commodore Amiga CD32 (1993)
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991) / Super Famicom (1990, Japan)
- Sega Genesis (1989) / Sega Mega Drive) (1988, Japan)
- Neo-Geo (1989)
- TurboGrafx 16 (1989)
- TurboGrafx-CD
- TurboDuo
- TurboExpress
- SuperGrafx
- Game Boy (1989)
- Atari Lynx (1989)
8-bit era/Post-crash of '83 era (1985-1990)
- Commodore 64GS (1990)
- Amstrad GX4000 (1990)
- PC Engine (1987, Japan)
- Atari 7800 (1986)
- Sega Master System (1986) / SG-1000 Mark III (1985, Japan)
- Nintendo Entertainment System (1985) / Famicom (1983, Japan)
Early cartridge-based 8-bit systems (1979-1983)
- Vectrex (1982)
- Arcadia 2001 (1982)
- Atari 5200 (1982)
- Colecovision (1982)
- Game And Watch (1980) (handheld)
- Intellivision (1980)
- Magnavox Odyssey˛ (1978)
- Bally Astrocade (1977)
- Atari 2600 (1977)
- RCA Studio 2 (1976)
- Fairchild Channel F (1976)
The first home video games (1972-1980s)
- Coleco Telstar (1976)
- Pong (1975)
- Magnavox Odyssey (1972)
* Consoles of the early 1970s (Pong and Magnavox Odyssey) were often inaccurately called "analog" but actually used discrete logic.