Vintage game consoles: an inside look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the greatest gaming platforms of all time

Generation one (1971-1984) : Arcade (1971) ; Apple II (1977) ; Atari 2600 VCS (1977) ; Atari 8-bit (1979) ; Mattel Intellivision (1979) ; PC DOS computers (1981) ; Commodore 64 (1982) ; Coleco ColecoVision (1982)

Generation two (1985-1994) : Nintendo Entertainment system (1985) ; Commodore Amiga (1985) ; Sega Genesis (1989) ; Nintendo Game Boy (1989) ; Nintendo Super NES (1991)

Generation three (1995-2001) : PC Windows computers (1995) ; Sony PlayStation (1995) ; Nintendo 64 (1996) ; Sega Dreamcast (1999) ; Sony PlayStation 2 (2000) ; Microsoft Xbox (2001) ; Nintendo GameCube (2001).