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ga 500, the Atari ST, the Am-
strad PC 1512 and Microsoft
released MS-DOS 3.2 for the
IBM PC. Looking back at it
all you can see the revolution
in progress. Better graphics,
sound, controllers and games
with more detail and story lines.
Many being released on multi-
ple disks.
The late 80s saw advances in
consoles like the Gameboy in
1989, Sega’s Game Gear, the
SNES from Nintendo and in the
early 90s we see the CD be-
come part of gaming with the
CD-ROM format. Sega release
their Sega CD as an add on to
their Genesis but it’s expen-
sive as an add on to a system
you’ve already paid for. The
3DO makes it’s debut in 1993
with systems using this format
manufactured by Sanyo, Gold-
star and Panasonic. It went on
to be Time Magazine’s Product
of the Year in 1993 but didn’t
sell in the same numbers as
competitors like the SNES or,
later in the mid 90s, the Sega
Saturn and the giants of the
mid 90s, the Nintendo 64 and
Sony Playstation.
Those two systems one from
long term video game con-
sole manufacture, Nintendo
and the other from new com-
er, Sony changed the console
market. Sega struggled after
many years of being the main
competitor to Nintendo, it was
now Sony vs Nintendo. The
first Playstation went on to sell
a whopping 104 million units
world wide (according to VG
Charts) and the N64 32 million.
The PC too, was a serious sys-
tem for gamers, VGA and Su-
per VGA graphics along with
sound cards saw DOS claim