Groundbreaking consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey and Atari 2600 helped change gaming forever.

The first video game console came out in the early 1970s and was quite rudimentary. Between then and 2025, which marked the release of the latest new console, the Nintendo Switch 2, there have been a ...

Which retro video game console is best? As video games continue to develop rapidly, games of yesterday grow in nostalgic popularity. In earlier years, the competition between gaming platforms caused ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

On Christmas Day 1982, I unwrapped my very first video game console, an Atari 2600. Although it was released in 1977, it was new to me, and I'm pretty sure the reason my parents got it for me was ...

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Nintendo has been making video game consoles for decades, and we've ranked all of its major home consoles and handheld systems in one list.