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by Michael Tucker - 01.26.10
Well at least every major system that isn’t a shameless clone.
Okay, so maybe I didn’t check to see if every system was in there. There’s still a ton of them listed in roughly chronological order. You can also click on any one of them and read about the background of that particular system. A pretty nifty way to kill some time and get a rough sense of the great variety of videogame consoles we’ve seen over the years.
It doesn't get much cool than this.
Looking to best Excitebike at its own game.
Take advantage of Gamestop trade-in deal
They add 50% value to each of your trade-in
The track editor with online sharing will be awesome
The View From Inside Nintendo?
Either way, awesome images await your eyes
Cool illusion of an NES controller
Download for $3 or stream for free.
Explanation of Tatsunoko characters.
Mistwalker's new Wii project
Seriously an absolutely incredible piece of internet. I loved ever minuted I spent clicking through it.
Kyle - 01.26.10 11:43 pm
Right off the bat, it’s missing the Entex Adventurevision. It belongs there because they included both the Game Boy and the Microvision, and the Adventurevision was an intermediate step between the two, like a more portable, poor man’s Vectrex but with an LED-and-spinning-mirror display technology like that of the Virtual Boy (also included here). But they’re not easily had on eBay; I’d be surprised if many of them are still working giving the moving parts involved, and they’ve sold for over a grand each, which is a stretch for the experience of playing a flickery red, low-res version of Defender or Turtles.
I also can’t find the Bally Astrocade, and am mystified by the inclusion of the Atari 800XL, a home computer that happened to have a cartridge slot, but not the Spectrum, VIC-20 or C64, both of which had cartridge slots as well (and the C64 also had a version with no keyboard for use purely as a game machine, not that it sold very well.) Maybe it’s just a matter of the site being in Germany and some of this stuff may not have been available there, but I’m pretty sure the C64 and VIC-20 were.
Still, really impressive, considering they had to either take all these pictures in that three-quarters perspective, or find existing pictures with the right perspective and photoshop out the backgrounds.
raindog469 - 01.27.10 2:13 am
Theres no PSPGO either :p
ALH - 01.27.10 9:54 am
Raindog, this is a professional job. As per boingboing, “Consollection is an elegantly-presented page about more than 100 different videogame systems from history in the collection of a gent named Phil Penninger. The site is tied to a German book by the same name, designed by Patrick Molnar Design. (Thanks, Mathias Crawford!)”
syxed - 01.28.10 4:46 pm
It’s important to thank Mathias Crawford.
syxed - 01.28.10 4:47 pm
Woah, nostalgia overload here. I have a feeling I’ll be spending the rest of the afternoon rummaging through my closet for old consoles to play now. :p
Kaspian - 01.29.10 6:38 pm
Good stuff, but I was noticing some of the other ones missing as well, the Japanese PS-X was one I was looking for and couldn’t find. Still, great picture database and fun to read through.
Sack - 01.29.10 11:55 pm