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The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (often called simply 3DO) is a video game console originally produced by Panasonic in 1993. Further renditions of the hardware were released in 1994 by Sanyo and...

The Aamber Pegasus is a home computer designed by Technosys Research Labs. The computer was released in early 1981 in New Zealand for an unknown retail price. The computer was not released outside of...

The Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers Ltd. The first models were released in June 1987 in Europe at a retail price around £800. The computers were also...

The Acorn Atom is a home computer designed by Acorn Computers Ltd. The computer was released in 1980 in Europe at a retail price ranging from £120 to £200, depending on the package bought. The...

The Acorn Electron is a home computer designed by Acorn Computers Ltd. The computer was released in August 1983 in Europe at a retail price of £175. The computer was not released outside of Europe....

The Amstrad Colour Personal Computer, better known as the Amstrad CPC, is a series of 8-bit home computers designed by Amstrad. The first models were released in April 1984 in Europe at a retail...

The Amstrad GX4000, commonly known as the GX4000, is a third generation (1983-2003) video game console developed and distributed by Amstrad. It was released in September of 1990 in Europe at a retail...

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based mobile devices such as smartphones and...

The APF Imagination Machine is a combination home video game console and computer system released by APF Electronics Inc. in late 1979. It was composed of two separate components, the APF-M1000 game...

The Apogee BK-01 or Apogey BK-01 is a Soviet 8-bit personal computer built on the Radio 86RK and released in 1988. Its later version, the Apogee BK-01C featured color support.

In 1976, computer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs began selling their Apple I computer in kit form to computer stores. A month later, Wozniak was working on a design for an improved version, the...

The Apple IIGS is a personal computer released by Apple Computer on September 15, 1986 that's compatible with the Apple II series, but otherwise has capabilities comparable to the Atari ST, Commodore...

iOS (originally iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. and distributed exclusively for Apple hardware. It is the operating system that presently powers many of the...

Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface–based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The original operating system was first introduced in 1984...

Beginning with Spacewar! in 1971, the earliest form of video games were Arcade Games, which were various games that required . Various forms of Arcade Machines existed, including traditional joystick...

The Atari Video Computer System (VCS), later named the Atari 2600, is a second generation (1976–1992) home video game console developed and distributed by Atari, Inc. It was released on September 11,...

The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a second generation (1976–1992) video game console developed and distributed by Atari, Inc. It was released in November 1982 in North...

The Atari 7800 Pro System, commonly known as the Atari 7800, is a third generation (1983-2003) video game console developed and distributed by Atari Corporation. It was released in May 1986 in North...

The Atari 800 was announced in December 1978, though it didn't actually start shipping until late in 1979. Designed to look like a friendly typewriter, the Atari 800 is an expandable system with...

The Atari Jaguar is a fifth generation (1993–2005) video game console developed and distributed by Atari Corporation. It was released in November 1993 in North America at a retail price of $249.99....

The Atari Jaguar CD is a fifth generation (1993–2005) CD-ROM peripheral for the Atari Jaguar video game console developed and distributed by Atari Corporation. It was released in September 1995 in...

The Atari Lynx, usually just referred to as Lynx, is a fourth generation (1987-2004) handheld video game console developed in partnership with Epyx, Inc. and distributed by the Atari Corporation. It...

The Atari ST is a line of home computers from Atari Corporation. The first models were released in June 1985 in North America at a retail price around $799.99 or $999.99, depending on the model. The...

The Atari XE Video Game System, commonly known as the Atari XEGS, is a third generation (1983-2003) video game console developed and distributed by Atari Corporation. It was released in November 1987...

The Bally Astrocade, originally referred to as the Bally Home Library Computer, is a second generation (1976–1992) home video game console developed by Midway and distributed by Bally Manufacturing....

The Bandai Super Vision 8000, also known as the TV Jack 8000, is a home video game console released by Bandai in 1979 belonging to the second generation. The console can be directly connected to a...

The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, BBC Microcomputer System, or best known as the BBC Micro is a series of microcomputers designed by Acorn Computers Ltd. and distributed by...

The Lynx was an 8-bit British home computer that was first released in early 1983 as a 48 kB model. Several models were available with 48 kB, 96 kB or 128 kB RAM. It was possible to reach 192 kB with...

The Casio Loopy, subtitled My Seal Computer SV-100, is a fifth generation (1993–2005) video game console developed and distributed by Casio. It was released on October 19, 1995 in Japan at a retail...

The Casio PV-1000, is a third generation (1983-2003) video game console developed and distributed by Casio. It was released in October 1983 in Japan at a retail price of 14,800¥. The console was not...

The Coleco ADAM is a home computer, and expansion for the ColecoVision (port 3), released in 1983 by American toy manufacturer Coleco. It was an attempt to follow on the success of the company's...

The ColecoVision is a second generation (1976–1992) home video game console developed and distributed by Coleco Industries. It was released in August 1982 in North America at a retail price of $175....

The Commodore 128, also known as the C128, C-128, C=128, or occasionally CBM 128, is the last 8-bit home computer that was commercially released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM). Introduced in...

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-selling single computer model of all time,...

The Amiga is a family of personal computers marketed by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio...

The Amiga CD32, styled "CD32" and code-named "Spellbound", is the first 32-bit home video game console released in western Europe, Australia, Canada and Brazil. It was first announced at the Science...

The CDTV (an acronym for "Commodore Dynamic Total Vision", a backronym of an acronym for "Compact Disc Television", giving it a double meaning) is a multimedia platform developed by Commodore...

The Commodore MAX Machine, also known as Ultimax in the North America and VC-10 in Germany, was a home computer designed and sold by Commodore International in Japan, beginning in early 1982, a...

The Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) is a line of home/personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International. A top-seller in the Canadian and United States educational...

The Commodore Plus/4 is a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984. The "Plus/4" name refers to the four-application ROM resident office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, database,...

The VIC-20 (Germany: VC-20; Japan: VIC-1001) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first...

The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 are home computers that were built in the 1980s. The Dragons are very similar to the TRS-80 Color Computer, and were produced for the European market by Dragon Data, Ltd.,...

The EACA EG2000 Colour Genie was a computer produced by Hong Kong-based manufacturer EACA and introduced in Germany in August 1982. It followed their earlier Video Genie I and II computers and was...

The Electronika BK was a series of 16-bit PDP-11-compatible Soviet home computers developed by NPO Scientific Center, the leading Soviet microcomputer design team at the time. It was also responsible...

Emerson Arcadia 2001 was supposed to be the Atari 2600 killer. A great console with great games. Unfortunately they fell prey to complete lack of third party development and the lack of arcade game...

The Enterprise (aka Elan) is a Zilog Z80-based home computer first produced in 1985. It was developed by British company Intelligent Software and marketed by Enterprise Computers. Its two variants are...

The Adventure Vision is a cartridge based tabletop video game system produced by Entex in 1982. The system has a rather unique built in LED display composed of a column of 40 LEDs and a spinning...

The Epoch Game Pocket Computer, usually just referred to as Game Pocket Computer, and also known as the Pokekon is a second generation (1976–1992) handheld video game console developed and distributed...

The Super Cassette Vision was released in 1984 as the successor to Epoch's Cassette Vision. The system was also manufactured and distributed for Europe (particularly France) by a company called ITMC....

The EXL 100 of the French brand Exelvision is a microprocessor computer based on the TMS7020 from Texas Instruments. It was original for the time because almost all home computers in France were...

The Sorcerer is one of the early home computer systems, released in 1978 by the videogame company Exidy. It was comparatively advanced when released, especially when compared to the contemporary more...

The Fairchild Channel F is a home video game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in November 1976. It has the distinction of being the first programmable ROM cartridge–based video game...

The FM Towns Marty (Efu Emu Taunzu Mati) is a fifth-generation home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It was the first 32-bit home video game system,...

The FM-7 ("Fujitsu Micro 7") is a home computer created by Fujitsu, first released in 1982, only sold in Japan. It is a stripped down version of their earlier FM-8; during development, the FM-7 was...

The Super Acan is a home video game console that was released exclusively in Taiwan in 1995 by Funtech. Inside is a Motorola 68000, also used in the Sega Genesis and Neo Geo. Twelve games have been...

The ZAPiT Game Wave Family Entertainment System, usually just referred to as the Game Wave, is a seventh generation (2005-2017) video game console developed and distributed by ZAPiT Games. It was...

The GP32 (GamePark 32) is a handheld game console developed by the Korean company Game Park. It was released on November 23, 2001, in South Korea only.

The Game Wave Family Entertainment System, commonly abbreviated as Game Wave, is a hybrid DVD player and home video game console manufactured by ZAPiT Games. It was first released in Canada in October...

The GCE Vectrex, usually just referred to as Vectrex, is a second generation (1976–1992) home video game console that was developed by Western Technologies/Smith Engineering, and distributed first by...

The Game Master is a handheld game console manufactured by Hartung, and designed to compete with the Nintendo Game Boy. In Germany it was marketed by Hartung itself, while in the UK it was released as...

The Hector HRX follows the 2HR, and takes over exactly the same machine, while technically stretching it on certain points. The main evolution comes from the amount of RAM that goes to 64 KB, allowing...

The VC 4000 (short for Video Computer 4000) is an early second generation 8-bit cartridge-based home video game console released in Germany in 1978 by Interton. The console is quite obscure outside...

The Jupiter Ace was a British home computer of the early 1980s, produced by a company set up for the purpose, named Jupiter Cantab. The Ace differed from other microcomputers of the time in that it...

Linux (or GNU/Linux) is a name that broadly denotes a family of free and open-source software operating systems (OS) built around the Linux kernel. Typically, Linux is packaged in a form known as a...

The Magnavox Odyssey is a first generation (1972–1980) home video game console developed and distributed by Magnavox. It was released in September 1972 in North America at a retail price of $99. The...

The Magnavox Odyssey 2 is a second generation (1976–1992) home video game console developed and distributed by Magnavox. It was released in February 1979 in North America at a retail price of $179....

The Matra & Hachette Ordinateur Alice was a home computer sold in France beginning in 1983. It was a clone of the TRS-80 MC-10, produced through a collaboration between Matra and Hachette in France...

The Mattel Aquarius was the first and only genuine home computer offered by Mattel Electronics. Mattel did not start by designing a computer. It instead began by looking around for a pre-made computer...

The HyperScan is a video game console from Mattel. It uses radio frequency identification (RFID) along with traditional video game technology. It was marketed toward boys between the ages of five and...

The Mattel Intellivision is a second generation (1976–1992) home video game console developed and distributed by Mattel Electronics. It was released in summer 1979 in North America at a retail price...

The Welback Holdings Mega Duck, usually just referred to as Mega Duck, is a fourth generation (1987-2004) handheld video game console developed and distributed by Welback Holdings, but marketed under...

Like many of the other computers at the time, including the Sinclair ZX range, Memotech computers were based on the Zilog Z80 8-bit microprocessor. The computers were originally available in two...

MSX is the name of a standardized home computer architecture, first announced by Microsoft on June 16, 1983.

MSX2 is a home computer standard marketed from 1985 as an improvement of the MSX model. High-end models incorporate video digitizers or MIDI equipment. Numerous applications are born that take...

After 1986, Microsoft stopped with supporting MSX and ASCII in Japan took over further development of the MSX system. Due to ASCII's lack of interest in European market the MSX2+ was never...

The Microsoft Xbox is a sixth generation (1998–2013) home video game console developed and distributed by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America at a retail price of $299.99....

The Microsoft Xbox 360 is a seventh generation (2005–2017) home video game console developed and distributed by Microsoft. It was released on November 22, 2005 in North America at a retail price of...

The Microsoft Xbox One is an eighth generation (2012-present) home video game console developed and distributed by Microsoft. It was released on November 22, 2013 in North America at a retail price of...

The Xbox Series X, and the Xbox Series S are ninth generation (2020-) video game consoles that were released on November 10, 2020. The Xbox Series S was a lower cost variant of the Xbox Series X,...

MS-DOS, short for Microsoft Disk Operating System, was an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of...

M.U.G.E.N (also written as Mugen, MUGEN and M.U.G.E.N., as the acronym's original meaning was forgotten) is a freeware 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte. Content is created by the...

History The Namco System 22 is the successor to the Namco System 21 arcade system board co-designed with the assistance of graphics & simulation experts Evans & Sutherland. It was first released in...

Featuring a 4MHz Z80A-compatible processor and a 640x200-pixel, 8-color display, the PC-8801 was twice as fast as the PC-8001, with eight times as many pixels and up to four times as much RAM....

The PC-9800 series, commonly shortened to PC-98, is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 through 2000. The platform established NEC's dominance in...

The PC-FX is a 32-bit home video game console made by NEC Home Electronics. It was released in Japan on December 23, 1994, just weeks after Sony's PlayStation and a month after the Sega Saturn. It is...

The PC Engine is a video game console that was first released in Japan by NEC and Hudson Soft on October 30, 1987. The system was released in the U.S. market in late August 1989 under the name...

In 1988, the first peripheral for the console appeared, a CD reader called CD-ROM². The reader was connected to the interface unit, which powered both the console and the reader itself. Competing...

The Nintendo 3DS, abbreviated to 3DS, is a portable game console produced by Nintendo. It is capable of displaying stereoscopic 3D effects without the use of 3D glasses or additional accessories....

Named for its 64-bit central processing unit, it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, March 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1997 in France and December 1997 in...

The 64DD, colloquially referred to as the Nintendo 64DD, is a magnetic disk drive peripheral for the Nintendo 64 game console developed by Nintendo. It was originally announced in 1995, prior to the...

The Nintendo DS or simply, DS, is a 32-bit dual-screen handheld game console developed and released by Nintendo. The device went on sale in North America on November 21, 2004. The DS, short for...

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987. In most of Asia, including...

The Family Computer Disk System, sometimes shortened as the Famicom Disk System or simply the Disk System, and abbreviated as the FDS or FCD, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer home video...

The Game & Watch series are a total of 60 handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from 1980 to 1991. Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, each Game & Watch features a single game to be played...

The Game Boy is an 8-bit handheld video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America in August 1989, and in Europe in 1990. In...

The Game Boy Advance (abbreviated as GBA) is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on...

The Game Boy Color, (abbreviated as GBC) is a handheld game console manufactured by Nintendo, which was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan and was released in November of the same year in...

The Nintendo GameCube was the first Nintendo console to use optical discs as its primary storage medium. In contrast with the GameCube's contemporary competitors, Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's...

The Pokémon Mini is a handheld game console that was designed and manufactured by Nintendo and themed around the Pokémon media franchise. It is the smallest game system with interchangeable cartridges...

The Satellaview is a satellite modem peripheral for Nintendo's Super Famicom system that was released in Japan in 1995. Available for pre-release orders beginning February 13, 1995, the Satellaview...