Console History
The Game Boy Story: How Nintendo’s Handheld Dominated Portable Gaming
How Gunpei Yokoi's "withered technology" philosophy, Tetris and long battery life turned Nintendo's 1989 Game Boy into a handheld giant.
Console History
Console History
The Original PlayStation: How Sony Entered and Reshaped the Console Market
How a broken Nintendo deal, Ken Kutaragi's persistence and cheap CD-ROMs turned Sony's first console into the first to pass 100 million units.
Console History
Sega vs. Nintendo: The 16-Bit Console War Explained
The Sega vs. Nintendo rivalry of the 16-bit era: Genesis Does What Nintendon't, Tom Kalinske's Sonic strategy, blast processing, Mortal Kombat and how it ended.
Console History
The Nintendo Entertainment System: How the NES Revived Home Gaming
How Nintendo's Famicom became the NES: the 1983 Japanese launch, the VCR-style redesign, R.O.B. as a toy-store strategy, licensing rules and the launch games.
Console History
The Video Game Crash of 1983: What Happened and Why It Mattered
Why the North American console market collapsed between 1983 and 1985, what caused it, and how the crash shaped Nintendo's careful launch of the NES.
Console History
Video Game Console Generations Explained: From the Odyssey to the Modern Era
How console generations are counted, from the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey to the PS5 and Switch 2, with the key machines and technical shifts of each era.