On December 3, 1994, Sony launched the most technologically advanced home console yet made – a machine built to throw textured 3D polygons around at a speed nothing in a living room had managed... Read More →
Nintendo shipped 300,000 Game Boys to Japanese shops in April 1989 and had sold every one of them inside a fortnight. What those buyers could actually put in the slot was a Mario platformer,... Read More →
Microsoft released the Xbox at midnight on November 15, 2001, at a Toys R Us in Times Square. Bill Gates personally handed the first console to a twenty-year-old named Edward Glucksman, who had been... Read More →
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