Welcome to The Gaming Den. This site is dedicated to everything video games. Whether you are an adamantly hardcore oldschool gamer who refuses to trade in your Atari 2600 or are just beginning to play video games on the Nintendo Wii, this will provide you plenty of knowledge on home consoles. Although not every home console is on here, and no handheld portable consoles are on here (but will very soon!), you will find in here a number of significant consoles based on:
- Generation: The age and "era" of gaming they were a part of based on performance, design, and competition.
- Innovation: What new ideas and trends they brought to the industry.
- Success and failure: How well or badly they did and why.
- Other: Oddball designs, "Killer App" games, etc.
Site Updates:
September 7, 2009: After summer break, I have returned to working on this web page. I have updated and performed maintenance on the Atari 2600, about me, and Magnavox Odyssey pages.
February 9, 2009: Added 3DO page, and changed the banner for future updates.
January 18, 2009: Added Atari 5200 and 7800 pages.
Janaury 15, 2009: Added Philips CD-i page.
January 12, 2009: Added Fairchild Channel F page.
Breaking News! According to Destructoid.com and VGChartz.com, Wii Sports, the pack-in game and tech demo of the Ninendo Wii has in fact surpassed the 40 million-mark in sales, making it the best seling game of all time. This is the the first game ever to match or exceed that mark since Super Mario Bros. released all the way back in 1985 on the NES. Click here for the story. As a result, both the NES and Wii pages have been altered to reflect this development.
December 11, 2008: Added "Top Lists" page, edited "About Me" page. Site is presented in class.
December 2, 2008: “Generation 5” through “Generation 7,” Glossary, Killer apps, Sega History, rating systems, “Optical Disk Killed the video Cartridge Star,” “Prospects for future Updates” and “About Me” pages completed and uploaded.
November 18, 2008: “Generation 1” through “Generation 4” complete and uploaded
November 11, 2008: Directory pages and links added
October 22, 2008: Home Page is posted online for the first time on UNI's server.
October 14, 2008: Site Creation begins with home page.
