Video Game Console : Third Generation

Actually, video game console third generation start in 1985, not after crash of second generation in 1983. Nintendo, a japannese company take an idea to created Family Computer (Famicom) based on ColecoVision, a console from second generation. Famicom support high-resolution sprites and tiled backgrounds, but with more colors. This technology alloed Famicom to be longer and have more detailed graphics.

According above paragraph, third generation starts when Nintendo brought Famicom to the USA in 1985 and change it name to Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). But on that year, in USA, video games were seen as a fad that had already passed.

To distinguish NES from older video game consoles, Nintendo should to make strategy. The strategy are NES used a front-loading cartridge port similar to a VCR, packaged with a Super Mario Brothers game and a light gun (the Zapper), and originally advertised it as a toy. The plastic “robot” (R.O.B.) was also sold as an individual purchase item and in some cases packaged with the NES system.

Nintendo’s success revived the video game industry and new consoles were soon introduced in the following years to compete with the NES because it has breakout hit game in Super Mario Bros.

Sega try to follow the sucess of NES with Sega Master System. They was intended to compete with NES. But the never gained any significant market share like what NES have in USA, and they was barely profitbale.

The third generation of video game console are Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Master System and Atari 7800.

The third generation ends when new technology found in 1989. It means Fourth Generation was begin, the history will continued.

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