| 1 | An index for the various generations of video games, telling the development of the medium and indexing games in each generation. |
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| 3 | Fun fact, categorizing video game systems by generations only began at the start of the 21st century, with the ''de facto'' {{Trope Namer|s}} for the idea of numbered console generations being Website/{{Wikipedia}}, whose organization of console generations has since become the most commonly agreed upon. |
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| 5 | [[index]] |
| 6 | * MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames (first and second generations, 1972-1984 [[note]][[LongRunners 1989 for the Atari 2600 and 1990 for the Intellivision]]; The IBM PC is still going strong through Software [=OSs=] like Windows[[/note]]) |
| 7 | ** MediaNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 |
| 8 | * MediaNotes/The8BitEraOfConsoleVideoGames (third generation, 1982-1994 [[note]]1998 outside of America[[/note]]) |
| 9 | * MediaNotes/The16BitEraOfConsoleVideoGames (fourth generation, 1987-2000) |
| 10 | * MediaNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames (1993-2003 [[note]]2006 outside of America[[/note]]) |
| 11 | * MediaNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames (1998-2011) |
| 12 | * MediaNotes/TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames (2004-2013) |
| 13 | * MediaNotes/TheEighthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames (2011-2020) |
| 14 | * MediaNotes/TheNinthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames (2020-) |
| 15 | * See also MediaNotes/ConsoleWars, which only tells of the competition between each console in each generation. |
| 16 | [[/index]] |
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