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A TV Boy with power and TV attached. A handheld TV game or plug and play game is an integrated home video game console and game controller, usually battery powered, which connects directly to a television. The game software is built directly into the unit, which is typically designed to look like a toy or classic game console controller with ...
This is a list of retro style video game consoles in chronological order. Only officially licensed consoles are listed. Starting in the 2000s, the trend of retrogaming spawned the launch of several new consoles that usually imitate the styling of pre-2000s home consoles and only play games that released on those consoles.
A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.These may be home consoles, which are generally placed in a permanent location connected to a television or other display devices and controlled with a separate game controller, or handheld consoles, which include their own display unit and ...
Dedicated console. A dedicated console is a video game console that is limited to one or more built-in video game or games, and is not equipped for additional games that are distributed via ROM cartridges, discs, downloads or other digital media. Dedicated consoles were popular in the first generation of video game consoles until they were ...
List of Sega video game consoles. Sega is a video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with multiple offices around the world. The company has produced home video game consoles and handheld consoles since 1983; these systems were released from the third console generation to the sixth.
The list of video game consoles is split into the following articles: List of dedicated video game consoles. List of handheld game consoles. List of home video game consoles. List of video game consoles by generation. List of first generation home video game consoles. List of microconsoles. List of video game console emulators.
Plug-and-play systems. Plug-and-play systems have been released or licensed by companies such as Atari, Sega, and Nintendo. These systems include stand-alone game libraries and plug directly into the user's television. Retrogaming community The Art of Video Games premiered at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2012.
Included with the system was Tetris, which became one of the best-selling video games of all time, drawing many that would not normally play video games to the handheld. Several rival handhelds made their debut in the early 1990s, including the Game Gear and Atari Lynx (the first handheld with color LCD display). Although these systems were ...