Video Game Consoles, Old Friends
Back in the last century, the term video game consoles equaled the term video game systems. Video games consoles were, and essentially are, the single most important part of the video games playstation, the essential piece of hardware enabling the whole process of playing video games operate at all. There have been all kinds of video game consoles designed since the beginning of the video gaming boom, different brands and models often becoming the topic of many a vivid discussion between inspired gamers. In any gaming community or club, the first one to own the newest of the video game consoles currently on the market immediately became a star of the crowd.

Nowadays, in the era of computer video games, the term 'video game consoles' is used to describe exactly a part of the video game system, not all of that, which is sensible and reasonable after all the evolutions the video game consoles and systems have undergone since their introduction. The first video game consoles on the market really had extremely simplistic mechanics keeping them running and were suited to play simple games like Pong. Then the second generation of video game consoles came along, gratifying the growing gaming community by the possibility to play games presenting a greater challenge - all thanks to Fairchild Video Entertainment System. This second generation originates from the year 1976. And then, later, there was the year 1983 and the birth of the third generation of video game consoles, for which we have Nintendo video games to thank. Since then, there were four more changes - four more generations. Currently, the video game consoles of the seventh generation dominate the market - it has been happening since 2005, in fact. The brands that dominate the seventh generation market are Nintendo (predictably), Sony Playstation3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. Funny enough, the last, despite having introduced the seventh generation video game consoles first, is the least popular!