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Odyssey, Channel F, Atari 2600, Intellivision.
On the market in 1972, it had three hundred plus separate parts, including hand controls, dice, playing cards, and play money. The plastic overlays that came with it provided the color for the preprogrammed twelve games that used all the equipment. It had a very impressive first year, selling more than one hundred thousand consoles at one hundred dollars a piece. |
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Fairchild Channel F
On the market in 1976, this paved the way for future video game systems. It had in it the very first microchip. Although it was the first with this technology, it wasn't very prosporous. It was sold for one hundred and seventy dollars, originally, with its games running about twenty dollars a piece. |
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Atari 2600
The first Atari on the market made it's debut in 1977. They sold for two hundred dollars, and the games' prices ranged from twenty to fourty dollars a piece. They were popular for the next five years, in which over five billion dollars worth of Atari products would be bought. |
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Mattel Intellivision
On the market in 1979, the Intellivision was bought quickly because of the promise of a soon-to-come compatable keyboard. Selling over 3 million copies of the game system that would double as a computer in a short while was the easy part. However, whenever the keyboard was made, it was only tested on a few systems. They received very poor results so they didn't release the keyboard publicly. After a while, the government made them release it due to their past promise. |
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