Apple/Bandai Pippin ATMARK
Apple designs the Pippin (named after an apple variety) as a standard that other manufacturers are supposed to build under license. The console is not only …
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Nintendo 64
The Nintendo 64 appears late in the 5th generation, one and a half years after PlayStation, but is the first console with a 64-bit processor. It is developed …
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Nintendo Game Boy Pocket
After Nintendo launched the Game Boy in 1989, the Game Boy Pocket (GBP) was the first update of the successful Handheld console and Game Boy series in 1996. It …
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Palm Pilot
The first handheld of Palm Computing (later a part of U.S. Robotics, then 3Com, then HP) is the Palm of 1996. It has a monochrome LCD touchscreen and a …
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Tamagotchi
In Japan, apartments are small and many people lack the time to keep pets. Japanese Aki Maita and Akihiro Yokoi design virtual pets to take with them. They …
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