Magnavox released the first video game console, the Odyssey, in 1972, predating the Pong machines by three years. However, the games were all included on the circuitry; the cartridges were nothing more than a series of jumpers to select the game. When the Fairchild Channel F and the Atari 2600 released in 1976 and 1977 respectively, which both featured programmable ROM cartridges, Magnavox responded with the Odyssey2 (also known as the Philips Videopac G7000, the Philips Odyssey, and a few other names around the world). While inferior graphically and with a smaller library than it's competitors, the Odyssey2 managed to last until the crash of 83.

The concluding part of my Top 100 Computer / Video Games of All Time! At last it's over!

Welcome to Part 3 of what has already been described as "the oddest Top 100 Games List" someone's ever seen…

Part two of my Top 100 Computer / Video Games of All Time (games 21-50)

Since this is going to be quite a lengthy trip down memory lane, I've split it into 4 parts...

These are some of the very best freeware adventure games I've played. I don't claim to have played every freeware adventure game ever made, but I've played quite a few in my time. These, in my opinion, are the ten best (subject to change, in no particular order...)

Retro games are still my favorite. Those old classic DOS games which may not have attractive graphics but still are most famous. Here is a list of Best old or retro classic DOS games you should play at least for once in your life. These include games of different types like first person shooter, racing, mazes etc.

I bought a Nintendo 64 the day it came out, and I've been a huge fan ever since. The N64 is my favorite console ever. It had amazing sound and video and, as always, Nintendo made some incredibly fun games for it. The jump from the Super Nintendo to the Nintendo 64 is probably the biggest upgrade of all time. Going from a 2D 10MHz system to a 3D 93.75 MHz system with CD-quality voices blew me away. When you've been used to Super Mario World, Super Mario 64 is unbelievable. Suddenly there were huge immersive 3D worlds to explore, and characters who actually spoke.

A list of all milestone games I have ever played or as I remember them. (At least all the ones I can find on here.) Roughly in order as I remember first playing them.

Most people probably grew up with console games; depending on your age, anywhere from the Nintendo 64 all the way back to the Atari 2600 and before. But some of us also started out in the pre-Windows world of PC gaming: a land of conventional memory, ZMODEM downloads, IRQ conflicts, and other things we don't miss. But we do miss the games, because when consoles were still maturing, the PC platform had some of the best and most entertaining games ever written. And for those of you who never played games in the pre-3D world: yes, DOS also stands for Disk Operating System. Yes, it's that thing you get when you type "cmd" into the Run bar, and yes, the whole computer used to look like that. Can you believe it?

Welcome to RGB Classic Games. This is a very simple web site about a very simple time.

VGA graphics were introduced in April 1987 by IBM with the PS/2 series. At first, they usually were not called VGA, just PS/2 graphics. It was a far bigger step than from CGA to EGA, which is probably why game designers were more reluctant to embrace them.

The enhanced graphics adapter (that's what EGA stands for) was a huge step ahead from CGA. For a short while, the PC had the pole position as far as graphics were concerned. EGA supported 16 colors out of a palette of 64 at a resolution of 640×350, or the standard 16 colors (the ones accessible in text mode) at 320×200 or 640×200.

It's been two years since we last visited this topic, which is just about enough time for the controversy over our previous selections to have just about died down. Since that last list was created, we've had some changes on the PC staff. First, Dan set sail for the Grey Havens so we asked Jason to come over from that other site. Then Charles revealed his treachery by moving to work on the 360 site so we rescued Jeff Haynes from the PS3 team and reacquainted him with the goodness that is PC gaming.

Welcome to IGN's Videogame Hall of Fame, where we recognize what we consider to be the absolute pinnacle of videogame excellence. Induction into the Hall of Fame is the most prestigious honor given at IGN as only a handful of games out of the tens of thousands released will ever make it into these hallowed halls.

The Atari 7800 never had a chance. Stacked against the dominant NES and a stubborn Master System, Atari's competitor was doomed to fail. The console was created in 1983 for full release the following year, but the faltering videogame market forced Atari to full it back. The ascension of the NES proved that consoles were still quite viable (if marketed correctly with good games), so Atari dusted off its shelved system. By the time it was released in 1986, the 7800 was saddled with tech a few years behind the curve. The comparisons between the 7800's launch library - which was also completed in 1984 - and the games burning up the NES and SMS were dismal. The system suffered little third-party support. It was eventually binned in 1991.

We've all heard of the Atari classic Space Invaders, right? Sure, of course, because we're not a pack of pop-culturally ignorant mother-scratchers. The same can be said about Dig-Dug and Breakout and Asteroids. These are the major titles, the games we all know and love to play.

How many times have you clicked on a "World's Greatest Video Games" link only to discover that most of the games listed were released within the past few months? Or even worse, the list omits such important video gaming milestones like Pong, Asteroids, or Tempest 2000?

Most people don't realize that I didn't get my start at the San Francisco Chronicle as the universally beloved pop culture critic that you know today. I was actually a Chronicle paperboy in the early-to-mid 1980s.

Released in 1977 by Atari shortly after its acquisition by Time-Warner (then Warner Communications), the Atari 2600 was only intended to be a stopgap for the company, not the industry giant that it eventually became.  However, its use of interchangable solid-state cartridges made it immensely popular with gamers tired of Pong clones, as well as early third party developers like Activision and Imagic.