A complete list of the major video games consoles which have been sold since the first video games system was released in 1972.
- 1972: Magnavox Odyssey
- 1975: Magnavox Odyssey 100 | Phillips Tele-Spiel | Magnavox Odyssey 200 | Atari Home Pong
- 1976: Coleco Telstar | Fairchild Channel F | Wonder Wizard | 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System | Magnavox Odyssey 300 | APF TV Fun
- 1977: Nintendo Color TV Game | RCA Studio II | Atari 2600 | Magnavox Odyssey 4000 | Bally Astrocade | Bandai TV Jack
- 1978: Magnavox Odyssey² | Interton VC 4000
- 1979: Mattel Intellivision | APF Imagination Machine
- 1980: Voltmace Database
- 1981: Epoch Cassette Vision
- 1982: Atari 5200 | Vectrex | Emerson Arcadia 2001 | ColecoVision | SHG Blackpoint
- 1983: Philips Videopac + G7400 | Sega SG-1000 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Casio PV-1000 | Hanimex HMG 7900 | Rollet Videocolor
- 1985: Sega Master System
- 1986: Atari 7800 | Dina 2-In-1
- 1987: TurboGrafx-16 (PC-Engine) | Atari XE Game System
- 1988: Sega Mega Drive (Genesis)
- 1990: Amstrad GX4000 | Neo Geo | Super Nes | Commodore 64 Games System
- 1991: Phillips CD-i
- 1993: 3DO Interactive Multiplayer | Atari Jaguar | Amiga CD32 | Pioneer LaserActive
- 1994: Sega Saturn | Sony PlayStation | Neo-Geo CD | PC-FX | Playdia
- 1996: Casio Loopy | Apple Bandai Pippin
- 1996: Nintendo 64
- 1998: Dreamcast
- 2000: PlayStation 2
- 2001: Nintendo GameCube | Xbox
