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Video Game Console Manufacturers

In this section, you'll find a guide to the companies that have manufactured consoles and handhelds in the past such as Atari, Commodore, Magnavox and Sega, along with those companies producing today's seventh generation machines, including Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

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3DO
Responsible for the 5th generation 3DO console in released in 1993 ...
Atari
Producing a wide variety of consoles and handhelds, including the Atari 2600, 5200, XEGS, Jaguar, Lynx and Flashback ...
Coleco
A company present at the birth of video games consoles, with the 1st generation machine the Coleco Telstar and the 2nd gen unit the ColecoVision ...
Commodore
Manufacturing a number of popular consoles such as the VIC-20, Commodore 64 and the Commodore 128 ...
Emerson
The company that produced the unsuccessful 8-bit video game console the Emerson Arcadia 2001 ...
Magnavox
Responsible for the first ever home video game console: the Magnavox Odyssey, along with its successor the Odyssey 2 ...
Microsoft
Entering the console market in 2001 with the Xbox, followed by the seventh generation machine the Xbox 360 in 2005 ...
Milton Bradley Company
An American company that released the first handheld console (the Microvision) in 1979 ...
NEC
Responsible for the 8-bit PC Engine in 1987 and its 32-bit successor, the PC-FX, in 1994 ...
Nintendo
One of the largest and well-known console and handheld manufacturers, with machines including the Game Boy, NES, Nintendo DS Lite and its newest console, the Wii ...
Philips
Entered the console market in 1991 with the CD-i ...
RCA
Released the first generation console, the RCA Studio II, in 1977 ...
Sega
A popular console and handheld manufacturer in the late 80s and 90s, with machines such as the Sega Mega Drive, Game Gear, Saturn and Dreamcast ...
SNK
A Japanese compnay that released the high-powered console the NeoGeo AES, along with handheld machines such as the Neo Geo Pocket ...
Sony Computer Entertainment
Makers of the popular Sony PlayStation console range ...