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What was the world's first commercially available home video game console?

console

[kuhn-sohl] / kษ™nหˆsoสŠl /


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With a transparent acrylic body, this console, sold in four colors, is the opposite—a modern home for a record player or albums.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Nov. 13, 2026

He estimates that those console editions have sold about 70 million copies.

From BBC โ— Nov. 13, 2026

Analysts expect the game to have an impact on the entire video game sector, including on console sales and accessories.

From Barron's โ— Nov. 6, 2026

Nintendo earlier this year raised Switch 2 console prices in Japan, the U.S. and some other regions.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Nov. 5, 2026

Opposite the couch was a television set in a dark, heavy console.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Nvidia was first and best known for developing video cards that helped the burgeoning gaming industry incorporate increasingly lifelike, sophisticated graphics that once rudimentary consoles and PCs couldn’t otherwise handle.

From Slate โ— Nov. 12, 2026

The company sold nearly 6.5 million Switch 2 consoles in the first half, down from nearly 10.4 million the previous year, when the gadget was new.

From Barron's โ— Nov. 5, 2026

A row of industrial blue historic launch consoles that were once used by NASA’s launch control at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida were given to the Oschin to display near Endeavour.

From Los Angeles Times โ— Oct. 28, 2026

In an interview in July, Jeff Gattiss, Amazon's head of gaming, told the BBC he believed the rising cost of tech would mean people will turn to streaming games online rather than buying new consoles.

From BBC โ— Sep. 4, 2026

A vintage RCA television stood in the center of the room, hooked up to a Betamax VCR, a LaserDisc player, and several vintage videogame consoles.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

At the church across the street, she consoled the wife of a young construction worker who died when the building fell on him.

From BBC โ— Nov. 12, 2026

"The victim should be consoled at this time, not cursed," one of them read.

From BBC โ— Sep. 8, 2026

“It has been subject to increasingly aggressive change. When I was younger, it was sad for me to witness. I was consoled because Vlore was not the center, but then they started attacking here too.”

From Slate โ— Sep. 8, 2026

Some have apologized for the affront and consoled customers, helping them move through the stages of grief to acceptance.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Sep. 4, 2026

I am consoled, somewhat, by the thought that the green plants are in the same fix.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

It finds the singer consoling a friend who has just been through a break-up.

From BBC โ— Jul. 27, 2026

Days after Kirk’s death, Marx posted photos of himself consoling Kirk’s widow, Erika; he announced he was considering a run for governor at a memorial service for Kirk.

From Slate โ— Jun. 29, 2026

Viewers have been circulating clips of Wilson reaching for Batula’s hands in one scene and consoling her in the bathroom as she cried in another.

From Los Angeles Times โ— Apr. 3, 2026

Soprano Hilary Cronin was a dazzling, lyrical Iole, her precisely calibrated da capo arias capturing the princess’s serene acceptance of her lot and her consoling, thoughtful presence—the antithesis of the disturbed Dejanira.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Mar. 18, 2026

She patted me on the shoulder in a consoling manner.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pรฉrez


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