While the third generation of video game console was known as the 8-bit era, the fourth generation was the 16-bit era of video game consoles. This generation saw video game consoles that had 16-bit microprocessors, multiple game controls, larger sprites, parallax scrolling, multi-layer backgrounds, scaling and rotation, 64 to 4096 screen colors, CD-ROM support, and stereo audio.
The First Generation of consoles is a hodgepodge of samey consoles, missing information, confusion, and is overall the one in worst condition when it comes to archiving and preservation. This gallery has the sole purpose of gathering together all of the pictures on Wikimedia of these systems, to aid in researching and creating articles about them.
The fifth-generation era (also known as the 32-bit era, the 64-bit era and the 3D era) refers to computer and video games, video game consoles and video game handhelds from approximately 1993 to 2001. For home consoles, the best-selling console was the PlayStation by a wide margin, followed by the Nintendo 64 and then the Sega Saturn.
Main article: History of video game consoles (first generation) The Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, was the first video game console. The Nintendo Color TV Game, released only in Japan in 1977.
