Linha do tempo dos games
Segunda geração (1976–1984)
Console | Fabricante | Lançamento | Fairchild Channel F | Fairchild | 1976 | RCA Studio II | RCA | 1977 | Atari 2600 | Atari | 1977(Tenho) | Bally Astrocade | Midway | 1977 | Interton VC 4000 | Interton | 1978 | Magnavox Odyssey² | Magnavox/Philips | 1978 | APF Imagination Machine | APF Electronics | 1979 | Microvision | Milton Bradley | 1979 | Game & Watch | Nintendo | 1980 | Intellivision | Mattel | 1980 | PlayCable | Mattel | 1981 | VTech CreatiVision | VTech | 1981 | Epoch Cassette Vision | Epoch | 1981 | Coleco Gemini | Coleco | 1982 | Arcadia 2001 | Emerson Radio | 1982 | Atari 5200 | Atari | 1982 | ColecoVision | Coleco | 1982 | Commodore MAX Machine | Commodore | 1982 | Entex Adventure Vision | Entex | 1982 | Vectrex | Entex | 1982 | Sega SG-1000 | Sega | 1983 | Atari 2800 | Atari | 1983 |
Terceira geração (1983–1992). Console | Fabricante | Lançamento | NES/Famicom | Nintendo | 1983 | MSX | Microsoft Japan | 1983 | Casio PV-1000 | Casio | 1983 | Supergame VG 3000 | CCE | 1985 | Atari 7800 | Atari | 1986 | Action Max | Worlds of Wonder | 1987 | Master System | Sega | 1987 | Top Game | CCE | 1989 | Dynavision | Dynacom | 1989 | Game Boy | Nintendo | 1989 | Game Gear | Sega | 1990 | Commodore 64GS | Commodore | 1990 | Amstrad GX4000 | Amstrad | 1990 |
] Quarta geração (1987–1996) Console | Fabricante | Lançamento | TurboGrafx-16 | NEC | 1987 | Mega Drive/Genesis | Sega | 1988 | Phantom System | Gradiente | 1988 | Atari Lynx | Atari | 1989 | SuperGrafx | NEC | 1989 | TurboExpress | NEC | 1990 | Neo-Geo | SNK | 1990 | Super Nintendo/Super Famicom | Nintendo | 1990 | Commodore CDTV | Commodore | 1991 | Sega CD | Sega | 1991