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Video Game Cartridge
September 18th, 2009 | 
Author: Video Game Cartridge
Classic Game Room HD - ROBOTRON 2084 for Atari 5200 review
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 Starship Hector Nintendo Vintage NES video game  US $6.99
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 Intellivision System with 30 Games US $99.98
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 Atari Game Defender Vintage 1981 release Game CX2609 US $3.30
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 Atari Game Missle Command 1981 release Game CX2638 US $3.30
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 VINTAGE 1987 MISSILE DEFENSE 3 D SEGA MEGA CARTRIDGE US $39.99
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 VINTAGE 1988 SPACE HARRIER 3 D SEGA MEGA CARTRIDGE US $39.99
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 VINTAGE 1988 ZAXXON 3 D SEGA MEGA CARTRIDGE US $39.99
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 socrates educational video system US $9.99
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 Super Nintendo Entertainment System US $20.50
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 Pole Position Video Game For Atari 5200 Game System US $.99
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 VECTREX video game system very sort after vintage US $70.40
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 Original NES game StarTropics US $.99
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 Atari 2600 Star Raiders Touch Pad Overlay Manual US $.99
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 Burgertime Atari 2600 Video Game Cartridge FactSealed US $5.50
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 Star Raiders Atari 2600 Video Game Cartridge FactSealed US $2.99
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 Lot Atari 7800 Video Games Asteroids Donkey Kong 2600 US $4.99
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 ATARI 2600 BERZERK Cartridge Packg Instrctns Catlg ORIG US $3.50
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 ATARI 2600 VIDEO CHECKERS Cartridge Pckg Instrctns Ctlg US $3.50
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 ATARI 2600 BOWLING Cartridge Packg Instrctns Catlg ORIG US $3.50
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 ATARI 2600 DEFENDER Cartridge Pckg Instrctns Ctlg COMIC US $3.50
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 ATARI 2600 STAR RAIDERS TOUCH PAD Cartridge COMIC More US $4.99
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 ATARI 2600 SPACE INVADERS Cartridge ORIG Pkgng Catalog US $3.50
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 City Connection Nintendo Nintendo NES video game US $6.99
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 ATARI 2600 MISSILE COMMAND COMBAT STREET RACE Cartridge US $3.50
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 ATARI 2600 ActiVision STARMASTER Cartridge ORIG package US $.99
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 ATARI 2600 ActiVision FISHING DERBY Cartridge ORIG Pckg US $2.99
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 VINTAGE ODYSSEY 2 VIDEO GAME CONSOLE SYSTEM NO RESERVE US $80.00
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 Sky Shark Nintendo Original Nintendo NES video game US $.99
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 Deadly Duck 1982 Atari 2600 FOX Sirius Video game NICE US $.99
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 Atari 2600 Joystick Plug Play 10 Old School Games US $9.99
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Video Game Console History
During the early years of video games, it was incredibly popular for young children to go down to the Arcades and play video games.
In the modern ages, children now save themselves the journey of a five to ten minute walk and now easily plug in and play their desired games in their very own home.
Playing video games at home began in 1977 when the company, Atari, released their Video Game System, ‘VCS' (later known as Atari 2600) for a princely sum of $249. In the same year, Nintendo released their console, TV Game 6, to rival the Atari 2600.
Arcades were very popular in those days, as it still is in the modern world, as Midway released the first video game that could keep high scores.
It's name? The world-renowned ‘Space Invaders'.
In 1980, many classic arcade games were made. Video games such as Atari's ‘Asteroids' and Namco's ‘Pacman' which can now be easily played in handheld consoles such as the Nintendo DS.
By 1994, many sagas of Video Game history came and went. There was a Video Game Console market crash which made many companies pull out of the business leaving Nintendo, Sega and Atari - the leading competitors of the market.
In 1995, Atari pulled out of the market and a new competitor emerged - Sony - which would famously go on to lead the console market. In that year, Sony released the ‘Playstation' - a 32-bit CD-based video game console, Sega released the ‘Saturn' and Nintendo released the ‘Nintendo 64' which was the last video game console that used cartridge media.
By the year 2000, Sony had a firm grip on the Video Game Console market as it released the Playstation 2 with many loyal game developers such as Namco (Ridge Racer, Tekken) and selling over 100 million units. The Playstation 2 was the first console which was able to play games of its predecessor.
In the following years, Microsoft entered the market with the ‘Xbox', Nintendo released the ‘Gamecube'. Nintendo led the handheld console with the release of Gameboy Advance which could play Gameboy and Gameboy Color cartridges.
Sega eventually left the Console industry, happily residing to be a software-only designer.
Now in 2006, there seems to be a gradual switch of the market leader with Microsoft releasing their Next-Gen console faster than Sony and Nintendo.
The ‘XBox 360' features razor-sharp graphics and enables users to play online with each other. It was released at Christmas 2005 but many consoles were sent back to the manufacturers because of faulty parts.
The Sony Playstation 3 is set for launch on the November 2006 after the delay of its original release date Spring 2006 because of copyright complications. It is rumoured that there will be over 30 launch titles. It is also rumoured that Sony has invested over $800 million in development, research and production.
Nintendo will release its console ‘Revolution', now renamed as ‘Wii' (pronounced We) shortly after the PS3 with its release date being scheduled for Christmas 2006.
The end of 2006 will certainly entail some turning points in Video Game History.
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