NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Summary In 1990, Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the videogame industry. Sega, on the other hand, was just a faltering arcade company ...

Old-school Sega console with games and TV on table - Patrikslezak/Getty Images For old school gamers, Sega consoles are almost as iconic as Nintendo's. There's even an argument to be made that Sega ...

In all the years that video games have been a popular form of entertainment, there have been debates and discourse about various aspects of it. Different people take stands to support or represent ...

The console wars shaped modern entertainment as profoundly as any technological revolution of the past half-century, yet they barely register in most accounts of recent history. While textbooks ...

Console wars have been a part of the gaming world ever since the Intellivision released to compete with the Atari 2600 (and if you know what those two consoles are, you’re awesome). Since then, we had ...

The gaming industry is constantly moving and evolving, but it’s also got a deep history that can be very important to reflect on amid unexpected business moves and changes. Take, for example, the ...

As of 2025, there have been a total of nine video game console generations, beginning in 1972. That’s the year the world got its first commercial home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, and since then, ...