Coming soon: The history of video games

I’ve wanted to do this for a while, a post talking about the consoles that laid the ground work for today’s gaming systems. Instead of using generations, I have broken them down into eras (see timeline above), naming the eras for what that gen or gens contributed, and yes; some consoles do overlap some eras, PS2 and Xbox for example. Here’s the breakdown of the consoles per era:

The origin era (or pre-crash era)

Magnavox Odyssey

Pong (arcade and home system)

Fairchild Channel F

Atari 2600

Bally Astrocade

Intellivision

Bandai Super Vision 8000

Atari 5200

ColecoVision

Vectrex

The golden age era (or the rebirth era)

Nintendo Entertainment system

Atari 7800

Sega master system

Sega Genesis

Sega cd

CD-i

SNES

Neo Geo

TurboGrafx-16

THE 3D era (or Disc media era)

PlayStation

Sega Saturn

Atari jaguar

3DO

Nintendo 64

PlayStation 2

Dreamcast

Nintendo GameCube

Xbox

The modern era (or the online era)

PS3

Xbox 360

Wii

I will be doing each era in its own blog post. Now I’m not going to be talking about every console show in the list, that’s where you come in. I’m going to be putting up a pole both on here and on the Facebook page beginning with the origin era, and the top 3 or 4 consoles will be featured. Why am I doing this? This will lead to a "what is the best video game console of history" post in the future.If there is a console I left out that deserves to be listed, just let me know on twitter, the FB page, the G+ page, or by commenting below.