First, Last, Biggest, Smallest, etc for each Console?

[Mike 01Hawk]

Is there a list compiled of all the extremes for each console?

[thomasholzer]

Well, here's for Magnavox Odyssey console (all 1972/1973):

 

First game: Chase (proto, 1960s)

 

First Sports: Magnavox Odyssey...Tennis, Pong, Footbal, Volleyball, Ski, Handball etc...

First Racing: Magnavox Odyssey: Wipeout

First Strategy: Magnavox Odyssey: Invasion, Cat and Mouse

First Space Game: Magnavox Odyssey: Analogic

First Horror: Magnavox Odyssey: Haunted House

First Puzzle: Magnavox Odyssey: Simon Says, States, W.I.N., Percepts, Brain Wave

First Wargame: Magnavox Odyssey: Submarine

First Shooting: Magnavox Odyssey: Shooting Gallery (with first Rifle)

First double-ender cart: Magnavox Odyssey: blue Apex cart 7&8

 

last game: Interplanetary Voyage (1973)

Edited December 3, 2007 by thomasholzer

[+atari2600land]

Here's a couple stats for N64

-First games: Super Mario 64, Pilotwings 64 (1996)

-Biggest games: Pokemon Stadium 2, Resident Evil 2 (512 MB)

-Smallest games: a few have 32 MB; among them are Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Dr. Mario 64, Asteroids Hyper 64, Charlie Blast's Territory, etc.

 

The last NES game released was Wario's Woods (12/94).

 

The last regular Game Boy game was based on a Rugrats movie. They didn't have time to colorize it for GBC, but it was released in 12/98.

Edited December 3, 2007 by atari2600land

[A Sprite]

Gameboy Original:

 

(Best guess)

 

Smallest - (32K) Tesserae, a tile based puzzle game.

 

Biggest - (1,024K) Zankurou Musouken; a super deformed Samurai Spirits 3.

Edited December 3, 2007 by A Sprite

[A Sprite]

Sega Master System -

 

Biggest: (1,024k) Sangokushi 3

 

Last release: Sonic Blast (1998)

Edited December 3, 2007 by A Sprite

[Krytol]

Which console had the biggest carts? NES?

[Gabriel]

Which console had the biggest carts? NES?

 

Neo Geo.

[Mike 01Hawk]

Which console had the biggest carts? NES?

 

Define biggest? As in physical size of the cart, or (which I'm assuming you meant) data wise?

[Ghost Soldier]

Which console had the biggest carts? NES?

 

Define biggest? As in physical size of the cart, or (which I'm assuming you meant) data wise?

Both in the case of the neo-geo

[BassGuitari]

This list is just off the top of my head, so feel free to correct any errors:

 

First system to use ROM cartridges: Fairchild Channel F

First Easter Egg: Fairchild Channel F

First Joystick on a videogame system: Fairchild Channel F

First Lightgun: Odyssey

First system with 4-player games: Odyssey 200

First System with graphics sprites: Odyssey 500

First System with color graphics: Sears Telegames Pong

First First-Person Shooter: Atari VCS

First Voice Synthesizer: Odyssey 2?

First Handheld system: Microvision

First system to foster an active homebrew community during its lifetime: Bally Astrocade

 

Biggest console: Atari 5200...I gather the PS3 is pretty huge too

Biggest cartridges: Neo-Geo

Biggest industry flop: RCA Studio II

Biggest game library: I was going to say Atari VCS, but I remember reading somewhere that NES and Playstation actually had more games made for them than the Atari...so one of them, I guess?

 

Smallest Console: Gameboy Micro

Smallest Cartridges: Nintendo DS

Smallest Controller: Atari VCS (Amiga Powerstick)

 

Last system to offer a non-pornographic slot machine game : Fairchild Channel F

 

 

 

EDIT: added "non-pornographic slot machine game"

Edited December 4, 2007 by BassGuitari

[vdub_bobby]

Biggest game library is, easily, the PS2. Almost every generation of consoles has had bigger libraries.

 

The 2600 has something like 650 unique (US) titles, the NES almost 800, the Genesis/SNES 700-800 each, the Playstation almost 1500, and the PS2 is probably over 1500 and counting.

 

Obviously, this is inflated somewhat by the annual sports titles that started coming out in the mid-90s, but that's not all of it.

 

Here are some approximate numbers I compiled about a year ago:

2600 653

Intellivision 125

Odyssey 2 49

Astrocade 40

Channel F 27

RCA Studio 2 12

Colecovision 145

5200 71

Vectrex 28

Arcadia 2001 22

NES 772

SMS 114

7800 59

XEGS* 32

SNES 722

Genesis 706

TG-16 94

Neo-Geo 90

PS1 1401

N64 298

Saturn 250

3DO 141

Jaguar 69

Virtual Boy 14

PS2 1262

XBox 600

GC 528

Dreamcast 252

 

EDIT: Forgot handhelds:

Again, these are approximate and were compiled (from digitpress.com) about a year ago:

GB 526

Game Gear 264

TurboExpress 94

Lynx 77

Wonderswan Color ?

GBC 455

Neo Geo Pocket 32

game.com 20

GP32 ?

GBA 847

GP2X ?

Gizmondo ?

DS 123

PSP 109

N-Gage 54

Zodiac 8

 

EDIT III: Forgot to mention, the XEGS number is just the count of official XEGS carts. Obviously, every XL/XE game and most 400/800 games could be used with the XEGS as well.

Edited December 3, 2007 by vdub_bobby

[A.J. Franzman]

Last system to offer a slot machine game : Fairchild Channel F

Did that come out after Slot Machine (Atari)/Slots (Sears) for the VCS?

[BassGuitari]

Last system to offer a slot machine game : Fairchild Channel F

Did that come out after Slot Machine (Atari)/Slots (Sears) for the VCS?

 

After. It was one of the Zircon titles released around 1980 or 1981. Atari's Slot Machine came out in '78 or '79 I think.

[thomasholzer]

Biggest game library is, easily, the PS2. Almost every generation of consoles has had bigger libraries.

 

The 2600 has something like 650 unique (US) titles, the NES almost 800, the Genesis/SNES 700-800 each, the Playstation almost 1500, and the PS2 is probably over 1500 and counting.

 

Obviously, this is inflated somewhat by the annual sports titles that started coming out in the mid-90s, but that's not all of it.

 

Here are some approximate numbers I compiled about a year ago:

2600 653

Intellivision 125

Odyssey 2 49

Astrocade 40

Channel F 27

RCA Studio 2 12

Colecovision 145

5200 71

Vectrex 28

Arcadia 2001 22

NES 772

SMS 114

7800 59

XEGS* 32

SNES 722

Genesis 706

TG-16 94

Neo-Geo 90

PS1 1401

N64 298

Saturn 250

3DO 141

Jaguar 69

Virtual Boy 14

PS2 1262

XBox 600

GC 528

Dreamcast 252

 

EDIT: Forgot handhelds:

Again, these are approximate and were compiled (from digitpress.com) about a year ago:

GB 526

Game Gear 264

TurboExpress 94

Lynx 77

Wonderswan Color ?

GBC 455

Neo Geo Pocket 32

game.com 20

GP32 ?

GBA 847

GP2X ?

Gizmondo ?

DS 123

PSP 109

N-Gage 54

Zodiac 8

 

EDIT III: Forgot to mention, the XEGS number is just the count of official XEGS carts. Obviously, every XL/XE game and most 400/800 games could be used with the XEGS as well.

 

 

Looks like you're only counting USA releases. Virtual Boy has a library of 22 titles, SMS has far more titles than 114, NES/Famicom over 2000, PC Engine almost 900 titles...etc

Edited December 4, 2007 by thomasholzer

[A Sprite]

Last system to offer a slot machine game : Fairchild Channel F

Did that come out after Slot Machine (Atari)/Slots (Sears) for the VCS?

 

Another one.

[vdub_bobby]

Looks like you're only counting USA releases. Virtual Boy has a library of 22 titles, SMS has far more titles than 114, NES/Famicom over 2000, PC Engine almost 900 titles...etc

Well, sure; sorry I wasn't more explicit.

 

This is just a rough glance for comparison purposes.

[kevincal]

I'm pretty sure the original Playstation has the biggest game library, over PS2 games...

[Krytol]

Smallest non-handheld console that's not a dedicated system?

 

PC Engine?

 

[vdub_bobby]

I'm pretty sure the original Playstation has the biggest game library, over PS2 games...

Just US releases, it's probably very close.

[BassGuitari]

Last system to offer a slot machine game : Fairchild Channel F

Did that come out after Slot Machine (Atari)/Slots (Sears) for the VCS?

 

Another one.

 

Wow, that looks cooler than either the Atari or Fairchild games!