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Sending in your resume is usually your first step in making a lasting impression to your dream company, so you’ve got to make sure yours is awesome enough. Your resume isn’t the only one the company is looking at, so a good resume must first stands out from the crowd and be distinctive by its own. Most organizations aren’t really fussy about design and simply wants a black – white, easy-to-read resume. That said, if you are applying for a graphic designing job, your resume is a valuable chance for you to flaunt your creativity and for them to gauge your designing capabilities.
So, all you graphic designers who are out there busily job-searching, it’s time to put on your thinking cap, let the creative juices flow and imaginations run wild! To aid you in your quest for that ultimate job, we’ve gone hunting for 25 really impressive and original resume ideas that some designers have came up with. We believe these ideas will give you head start and stimulate the genius within each of you to come up with that one-of-a-kind resume!

Jane Doe

An infographic CV lets potential employers easily assess the candidate’s skills and experience. Instead of a wordy resume, Jane Doe organizes hers in clear visual icons, bars and circles. (By Jane Doe)

Aditya Wijanarko

A smart mix of stunning red and pale yellow-brown colour resembling envelopes. The typography used in this booklet-like CV is captivating as well. (By Aditya4art)

Daniel Starr

Clever use of cluttered texts, which are made all the more unique using neat typographies. Black, white and shades of grey, along with the use of red, allows for greater readibility by partitioning sections in an orderly manner. (By Daniel Starr)

Mario Cobos

Creative reference of the CV to the candidate’s mind by using the sketch of the anatomy of supposedly his brain. (By Mario Cobos)

Kim Stassar

This CV beautifully illustrates the flow of various developments and events across the job-seeker’s life. The various colorful ‘bulgings’ of the lines indicate the different kind of skills she acquired during several stages of her life. (By Kim Stassar)

Jonathan Wakuda Fischer

Military booket-style resume pokes fun at the Communist ideology. An original idea for presenting your resume to your future bosses. (By Wakuda)

Sean A. Metcalf

The creator stylishly transformed the classic qualities of a newspaper into a contemporary piece of CV to impress his employers. An awesome way to showcase to them how ingenious you can be. (By Sean A. Metcalf)

Thomas Budd

Tom didn’t only send out his resume, he sent a mini-Tom as the messenger for his resume. (By Thomas Budd)

Andrew Lyons

A sharp-looking inforgraphic resume with the effective utilization of sleek circular bars to demonstrate skills and experience attained. (By Andrew Lyons)

Jenn Gerlach

Cartoon-like resumes not only advertise your specialty, but also express your cheerful personality. (By Jenn Gerlach)

Vincent Donnet

Complexity has its own beauty. This intricate visual chart is aesthetically pleasing with its magnificent multi-layered drawings that showcase the designer’s skills and experience at different periods of his life. (By Vincent Donnet)

Mike Wirth

A time-line concept for this resume, using various colors to signify the types of skills acquired over the years. (By Mike Wirth Art)

Ritwik Dey

Akin to the one above, LifeMap is a timeline visualization but has cleaner and neater feel to it. The colors are gradients of yellow, red and brown, which reminds you of a magma underbeneath Earth. (By Ritwikdey)

Greig Anderson

Words aren’t enough to serve as evidence of your designing skills. This large piece of foldable poster consist of pages of your portfolio as well as your CV, and yet it’s portable to be brought around. (By Effektive)

Eiric Shriner

Instead of adding your passport-sized photo in your resume, why not add in a drawing of yourself? (By Eshriner)

Scott Stedman

A circular time-line graph with labelings and line chart to denote achievements and knowledge picked up throughout life till now. (By Powerpointer)

Robbie Bautista

Attractive typography, pie chart and a cutesy drawing of the creator himself. Pretty much what it takes to lighten up the mood of the recruiter and capture his or her attention. (By Pyrotensive)

Robin Pirez

This CV is not only well-classified into discrete sections to facilitate the person reading it, it’s also delightfully designed with adorable icons and drawings. (By SteamRobin)

Phil Lagettie

Applying as a photograph, there’s no better way to express your passion for photography than to design a resume inspired by a camera. (By Rkaponm)

Francis Homo

Similarly, a silhouette can be included in your CV, especially in companies which discourage the inclusion of your portrait photo. In any case, it’s a brilliant attempt to make yours stand out. (By Darthkix)

Landin Hollis

An adorable drawing for your resume makes it looks like something out of a comic strip. (By L Hollis Photography)

Ayesha Malik

An elaborate yet elegant design for a CV,with soothing light blue background and charming small fonts to further sweeten the deal. (By Ayeshaflavord)

Gloria Edith Escalera Manzano

Wow, this girl seems to be sailing against all odds in the sea that is her life, earning all sorts of experience and skills. It’s a nice employment of the metaphor to a CV. (By Arbrenoir)

Olaf Takens

An amusing comic drawing of the job-seeker attempting to pull up his employment and educational history like a PC plug. Such resume would definitely brightens up the recruiter. (By TakoII)

Adam Balazy

Many word-based resumes are cluttered, but not this one. Words are nicely spaced, so you don’t get the overwhelming feeling from seeing too many words at one go. On top of that, you see a pleasing colorful illustration on the right to fill up the empty spaces. (By Balazy)

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With Facebook exploding into existence and evolving rapidly in just a couple of years, it’s not easy for users to grasp the unspoken rules of the social interactions within. Still, there is a general agreed upon courtesy or etiquette for online communication which we can apply to the phenomenal social networking site. Nevertheless, there is no such thing as hard and fast rules for spontaneous social interactions because they are ever-changing.

The following etiquettes are therefore not something which we should all strictly abide to. Rather, I must emphasize that they are purely guidelines to enhance our social interactions and experience with Facebook. The fact is that there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to social interactions. So, I encourage all of you to take these with a grain of salt and apply them as you deem fit!

Five Dos:

1. Message Private Matters Instead of Posting On Wall

As much as you may have exhibitionistic tendencies and wants everyone to know your most intimate secrets, others may not share the same inclination. Your friends might not take it too kindly when you post what they did last night at your house party, or any other stuff which are understood to be kept between your closest friends.
The fact is that most of their Facebook friends will hear about it in such a public platform. The walls indeed have ears, especially so for the Facebook Wall. Best to keep these conversations behind closed doors in Facebook Messaging.

2. Be Mindful Of What You Post

When you have hundreds of friends and acquaintances in Facebook, you have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all with different jobs, beliefs, personalities, etc. Updating your status with a general statement may seem harmless to you, but others may read it in a different light. For example, you make a remark about how advertisers con unsuspecting consumers into buying something they don’t need.
What you may not realize is that some of your friends in the advertising industry could see your status in their newsfeed. It’s a general statement, but they might think you are targeting them. Of course, it’s not going to be any fun if you’re going to consider all the possible misinterpretations before you post anything, but just be mindful of it.

3. Call Rather Than Post Personal News

This isn’t just Facebook etiquette; it’s social etiquette or even common sense. If you need to inform your friends or your family about some important and personal news (e.g. death in the family), don’t declare it out in the public domain. Facebook is a social networking site; it’s supposed to be public. This means that people can know what happened.
The other reason not to post is courtesy. It’s the same reason why you shouldn’t use SMS (or even the phone) to break up with someone. It’s rude and insincere to break important news, be it good or bad ones, without having some form of genuine communication through voice tones and body languages.

4. Reply To Comments Especially If They Are Questions

You post a status, and your friends make comments and ‘like’ it. I guess the least you can do is to acknowledge them by replying something, especially when they are questions directed to you. I’m not saying you should do it for the sake of doing it, but add on to their comments once in awhile. If you ignore them all the time, chances are that they won’t bother about your status anymore, lest they look silly talking to a wall. It’s almost karma.

5. Avoid Posting Comments On Every Post

If you’re stalking your friend, leave it at that. Don’t make it a habit to make some comment on everything your friends post or they’ll start to get suspicious. Even if you say with all honesty that you are not stalking them, it’s not going to be easy for them to believe that their status updates always appear on your newsfeed.
It’s open secret that everyone checks out their friends’ profile every now and then, but to comment on everything is to admit that you are constantly checking out on them. What is even worse is that your friend’s friends might notice as well, seeing that you are a ‘regular’ commenter. If you don’t wish to be labeled a pest, try to limit your comments somewhat.

Bonus: Be Careful Of Your Tone

As with all other online communication, communicating in Facebook is mostly textual. We can neither hear the voice tone nor see the body language when the other person ‘speaks’. In other words, it’s easy for someone to think you are being sarcastic when you are not, or misunderstand you in any other manner for that matter. To complicate things, everyone has their own typing style.
One way we can compensate for the lack of cues is to use emoticons. It’s pretty limited, but experience has taught me that a simple smiley face after a sentence can do wonders by neutralizing any potential tension. Smile and the whole world smiles with you :)

Five Don’ts:

1. Make Friend Requests To Strangers

Some people have this idea that the number of ‘friends’ you have in Facebook is a status of your popularity in real-life. That may be true if these ‘friends’ are people whom you know offline, and not strangers whom you randomly add while browsing through the Facebook network.



The idea becomes warped when people add friends merely for the sake of boosting their ‘popularity indicator’ among their peers. That’s not cool. But if you wish to add someone for some valid reason, like to get to know this girl you have a crush on, do so with some introduction or through a mutual friend. Skipping that step only leaves a bad impression of you, which is the last thing you want.

2. Tag Your Friends In ‘Unglam’ Shots

Guys may take it lightly when they are tagged in photos that look as if they just woke up from the bed, thinking that it’s a joke pulled off by their friends. When it comes to gals though, appearing ‘unglam’ means a lot more to them. Of course, this applies to some guys as well. What you need to take from this rule is to be sensitive of who you might be tagging in photos, especially those shots which are obviously awfully taken.

3. Overshare Yourself

Checking out the updates on your newsfeed, you see the same friend updating his status over and over again. Not any insightful ones, but just posts about what he’s doing every ten minutes. How exciting. You decide to hide his posts.
Sounds familiar? Probably. It’s annoying because no one is really interested in their friends’ everyday mundane activities, yet it just keeps popping out in their updates. Spice up your status updates a little. Instead of telling your friends you’re in the can taking a leak, share something interesting about yourself.

4. Vent About Your work

Facebook is a double-edged sword when it comes to its social networking capability. The boon is that it enables us to connect in an unprecedented manner with friends of friends of friends through the identification of mutual friendships. On the other hand, the bane is that there’s easily a way to gather information about you by passing through such layer one-by-one.
Even with your most stringent privacy settings, there’s still a risk that what you post can reach people you wouldn’t want it to reach, and your co-workers and boss are the last people you want to mess with. So, just play safe and leave your venting to somewhere private.

5. Post Chain Status Updates

Remember those chain e-mails that demand you to forward to all of your friends or you’ll die a horrible, horrible death? Well, Facebook has a similar kind of chain, but usually for a good cause. Someone first post a status update about a social cause, encouraging those who read it to post the status too, so that their friends will get to read it and post it as well. This chain thus spread the cause, raising public awareness.
The intention here is right, but sometimes too much of a good thing isn’t good. When you see your newsfeed updates filled with the same status, you get annoyed instead, and you associate your negative emotion to that social cause.

Bonus: Flame Others

Everyone is entitled to state their own opinion on the free internet, so there’s no need to put anyone down just because you disagree (or worse, don’t like the person).  Sometimes I even see people criticizing the comments of their friend’s friend who replied to the post, whom they don’t even know. It’s embarrassing not only to yourself, but to your friend as well.
In the spirit of good conversations, let’s keep this in mind in whatever communication we have online, in Facebook, forums, emails, etc. Don’t ruin it for everyone.

Conclusion
At the end of the day, it’s entirely up to us to follow these etiquette rules. I guess it’s about finding the balance between the being fun and sensitive to everyone. On one hand, we shouldn’t restrict ourselves with rules and regulations that would limit our creativity and spontaneousness of our social interactions. On the other hand, we ought to be aware of the publicness of Facebook to protect our privacy and at the same time respect the fact that each one of us forms part of the Facebook experience of everyone else. Find that right balance and you’ll not only better that experience yourself, but also help others enjoy it as well!

Islands without cars can be the perfect car-free holiday destination, offering a relaxed and laid-back atmosphere. Clear from traffic jams, parking fees or the struggle to find a free parking space these islands can be explored on foot or by bicycle. But with over 500 million cars in this world finding a car-free island is becoming an increasingly difficult task. Furthermore islands in this list should be laid-back (this excludes Venice) and have at least a small population and some facilities (this excludes all uninhabited islands).

Little Corn Island is the smaller of the two Corn Islands that lie about 70 km east off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. The island was originally colonized by the British, and most native islanders have more in common culturally with other English-speaking Caribbean islands than they do with the mainland of Nicaragua. Without roads and motorized vehicles the only option to get around the island is by walking. The surrounding coral reefs make it a popular destination for scuba diving and snorkeling.


Rottnest Island is located off the coast of Western Australia near the city of Perth. The island was inhabited by Aboriginal people from approximately 30,000 years ago, until rising sea levels separated the island from the mainland. When the Dutch explored the island in the 17th century the island was uninhabited. Today the island is a popular tourist destination. Activities include swimming, snorkeling, fishing, surfing, diving and cycling round the 11km long island. Cars are not permitted although there are a few tourist busses. Just don’t time your visit with the annual school leavers who come to Rottnest Island en masse.

Kadavu is the fourth largest island in Fiji and has about 10,000 inhabitants. Some of the natural resources of Kadavu include the mountainous jungles and waterfalls, bays fringed by coral reefs and a mangrove forest that provide habitat to a host of wild life and birds, including the Kadavu musk parrot. The untouched and natural state of the island makes it ideal for a remote vacation destination. There are very few roads on Kadavu and the main mode of transportation include boat taxis and ferries.


Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece separated from the Peloponnese by narrow strip of water. The island is deservedly one of the most popular day-trip destinations from Athens. The port of Hydra has a scenic location in a deep harbor, with whitewashed houses rising on the hills on both sides from an azure blue sea. Motorized transportation is forbidden on Hydra. The town center is small enough to get around on foot while donkeys, bicycles, and water taxis provide public transportation to the rest of the island.
Lamu Island is a part of the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya. Lamu Old Town, the main town on the island, is one of the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlements in East Africa. Built in coral stone and mangrove timber, the town features inner courtyards, verandas, and elaborately carved wooden doors. There are no roads on the island, just alleyways and footpaths, and therefore, there are few motorized vehicles on the island. Residents move about on foot or by boat, and donkeys are used to transport goods and materials.

Caye Caulker is a small coral island off the coast of Belize in the Caribbean Sea and is accessible by high-speed water taxi or small plane. In recent years the island has become a popular destination for backpackers and other tourists for its (relatively) cheap prices, laid-back vibe, and abundance of restaurants and bars. The main mode of transport on the island is simply walking. The paths are well defined, and crossing the island takes about 20 minutes. Bicycles and golf carts can also be rented.


The Perhentian Islands lay off the coast of northeastern Malaysia not far from the Thai border. The two main islands are Perhentian Besar (“Big Perhentian”) and Perhentian Kecil (“Small Perhentian”). Both the islands have palm-fringed white sandy beaches and turquoise blue sea. Scuba-diving, snorkeling, and swimming are the most popular tourist activities here. On most beaches, the water is shallow with lots of rays, cuttlefish and parrotfish. Aside from walking, the only means of transport are water taxis.


La Digue is one of the smaller islands of the Seychelles. It has a population of about 2,000 people, who mostly live in the west coast village of La Passe, which is linked by ferry to the islands of Praslin and Mahé. A popular way to get around the island is by bicycle. A great cycle excursion is to L’Anse Source D’Argent, one of the world’s top beaches.


Lombok’s most popular tourist destination, the Gili Islands are an archipelago of three small islands: Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air. The islands are very relaxed and laid-back, with countless little beachside cafes still playing reggae and no cars or motorbikes to disturb the peace. Bikes are available for rent and the main tracks are good enough for riding, at least on Gili Trawangan. The islands however are only a few miles in diameter and can just be walked instead.
Note that the name “Gili Islands” is rather redundant as gili simply means “small island” in Sasak and there are many other islands around the coast of Lombok with Gili in their names.


Ko Phi Phi is a small archipelago in the Krabi Province in Southern Thailand. Ko Phi Phi Don is the largest island of the group, and is the only island with permanent inhabitants while the smaller Ko Phi Phi Leh is very popular as a beach or dive excursion. There are no cars or motorbikes on the island so transport on the island is mostly on foot. Longtail boats can be chartered which take you to beaches on the island that can’t be reached by foot.

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Video gaming has come a long way since the early days of Pong and Pac-man.
We can now play affordable games of high calibre with 3D graphics and awesome
interactivity in the comfort of our home, taking for granted the little and subtle
improvements made to each and every consoles before becoming what they are
today. In a way, the aggressive competition between companies of video game
consoles had churned out the superior features of video gaming to bring to us the
excellent quality we see today.
As you shall see below, the evolution of video game consoles is indeed intriguing.
Did you know that there were more than 70 different consoles to date? And did you
know that there was a peak era of video arcade game when Nintendo and Sega were
fiercely pitting against each other with their revolutionary consoles? If you are amazed
by such facts, then I guarantee that this entry will excite you even further with the bits
and pieces of fascinating historical facts across the video game consoles timeline.
Whether you’re a gamer or not, this is a great opportunity for you to go behind the
scene and uncover the ‘making’ of present-day consoles!

1967

The first video game console (working prototype) debuted as a bulky rectangular
 brown wooden box with two attached controllers, and thus the name "Brown Box".
Invented by Ralph H. Baer (1922 – ), also known as "The Father of Video Games",
he developed the brown video game console such that it can be hooked up with any
ordinary TV sets. There were only six simple games for the console, namely ping-pong,
tennis, handball, volleyball, chase games and a light-gun game.
"Brown Box" (1967)

1972

The demonstration of the "Brown Box" led to the licensing of the technology by Magnavox
in 1972, resulting in the release of the first official home video game console – Magnavox
Odyssey. Just as the earliest films do not feature recorded sound, the first video game
console is silent as well, with graphics which we would consider very primitive by today’s standard.
Magnavox Odyssey (1972)

1975 – 1977

Atari’s PONG arcade machine was so popular in 1973 that Atari decided to market
the game as a home console two years later in 1975. In that same year, Magnavox
decided to improve its Odyssey system and released not one, but two different improved
versions of the original console, the Magnavox Odyssey 100 and 200.
From 1976-77, a series of Magnavox Odyssey consoles were produced, with each new
console only slightly better than the previous one. The consoles basically had the same
games within, but with some modification to the graphics, controllers and digital on-screen
scoring.
Unsurprisingly, Atari came up with new consoles such as the highly-acclaimed Atari 2600,
Video Pinball and Stunt Cycle to compete with Magnavox. New companies such as
Fairchild, RCA and Coleco also jumped on the bandwagon, creating consoles of their
own to grab a piece of the pie. The Wonder Wizard by General Home Products was
even said to be pretty much the same as the Odyssey 300 by Magnavox, other than having
better and larger paddle controllers.
Fairchild and RCA didn’t meet with much success with their first and only consoles while
Coleco’s first video game system, Telstar, was well-received for its capability to play
games in colour and for having different difficulty levels. As a result of its popularity,
a number of fresh consoles from Coleco soon sprang up in the market from 1977-78.
Atari Sears Tele-Games Pong System (1975)
Magnavox Odyssey 100 (1975)
Magnavox Odyssey 200 (1975)
Coleco Telstar (1976)
Fairchild Channel F (1976)
Magnavox Odyssey 300 (1976)
Magnavox Odyssey 400 (1976)
Magnavox Odyssey 500 (1976)

The Wonder Wizard Model 7702 (1976)
RCA Studio II (1977)
Magnavox Odyssey 2000 (1977)
Atari 2600 (1977)
Atari Video Pinball (1977)
Atari Stunt Cycle (1977)
Coleco Telstar Ranger (1977)
Coleco Telstar Alpha (1977)
Coleco Telstar Colormatic (1977)
Coleco Telstar Combat (1977)
Magnavox Odyssey 3000 (1977)
Magnavox Odyssey 4000 (1977)

1978 – 1980

Nintendo, the company which eventually became a major player in the video gaming industry for the next three decades, delivered their first series of video game console from 1977 to 1979. The Color TV Game Series were only for sale in Japan. These consoles essentially followed in the footsteps of Atari and featured Pong-style games.
Once again, there were a few newcomers to the market but they were met with limited success. Bally Astrocade came about in 1977 and was celebrated for its superior graphic capabilities. For some reason, it did not last long. Mattel introduced its Intellivision console in 1979, which actually intimidated Atari 2600 with its exceptional capabilities.
Coleco continued with its line of consoles of all sorts, in an attempt to pit against the mighty Atari 2600. Coleco had consoles for playing shooting, car racing and pinball games. Similarly, Magnavox persisted on with a few more upgraded consoles of its own, but they were inherently Pong consoles that play Pong-based games. Philips, having bought Magnavox in 1974, developed some variations of Magnavox Odyssey’s models as well. Regardless, Atari 2600 remained at the top owing to its cartridge-based console equipped with better graphics and games.
Nintendo Color TV Game Series (1977 – 1979)
Coleco Telstar Sportsman (1978)
Coleco Telstar Colortron (1978)
Coleco Telstar Marksman (1978)
Coleco Telstar Gemini (1978)
Coleco Telstar Arcade (1978)
Bally Astrocade (1978)
Magnavox Odyssey 2 (1978)
Philips Odyssey 2001 (1978)
Philips Odyssey 2100 (1978)
Mattel’s Intellivison (1979)

1981 – 1985

The golden age of video gaming has arrived! With progressively advanced gaming technology,the 1980s was a period of genre innovation when the industry began experimenting with non-Pong games like fighting, platform, adventure and RPG games. It is also this era that we saw the release of all-time classic games such as Pac-man (1980), Mario Bros (1983), The Legend of Zelda (1986), Final Fantasy (1987), Golden Axe (1988), etc. There was also a major shift from dedicated consoles (with built-in games) to cartridge-based video game systems.
Both Sega and Nintendo dominated the video gaming scene in that decade. The first console ever released by Sega was the SG-1000 in 1983. It was not exactly well-known since it was mostly distributed in Asia and never launched in North America. However, that machine laid the foundation for its top-notch successor in 1985, the Sega Master System. Nevertheless, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) revealed in 1983 emerged victorious as the best-selling console of that generation. It is even fair to say that the NES single-handedly raised Nintendo to a company easily identified with gaming.
Companies within the video game consoles market like Atari, Mattel and Coleco released new consoles, Atari 5200, Intellivision II and ColecoVision respectively, but these were not comparable with the popularity of Sega and Nintendo. In fact, ColecoVision was the last home video game console Coleco released. Meanwhile, a few new and unheard consoles were brought to the market by hopeful companies, but were unfortunately overwhelmed by the competition.
Epoch Cassette Vision (1981)
Vectrex (1982)

Emersion Arcadia (1982)
ColecoVision (1982)

Atari 5200 (1982)
Mattel Intellivision II (1982)
Casio PV-1000 (1983)
Sega SG-1000 (1983)
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) (1983)
Epoch Super Cassette Vision (1984)
Sega Master System (1985)

1986 – 1990

As the struggle for domination continues between Nintendo and Sega, each of them released brand new consoles to challenge each other’s positions. Sega came up with the its number one console of all time, the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1988. To counter the threat, Nintendo presented the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) two years later, the console next in line after NES. Sega released the Master System II in the very same year after gaining significant success with Mega Drive/Genesis. This was the major console war that occured in the 80s.
Atari was slowly slipping out of the console market despite yet another undertaking in its latest system, the Atari 7800. The draw was that it offered backward compatibility with the phenomenal Atari 2600, allowing players to enjoy classic games of the past. Newcomer TurboGrafx-16 by NEC tried to target both Sega Genesis and Nintendo’s SNES and NES consoles but was ultimately overtaken by them in 1991, ranking fourth in the video game market. An enhanced version, the SuperGrafx (1989), was also not well-received.
SNK Neo Geo, already famous for its arcade machines production, went ahead to bring the arcade experience to home video game consoles in 1990. The Neo Geo AES (Advanced Entertainment System) was equipped with remarkable graphics thanks to the larger size of the games, which consequently led to the pricey tag (the console costs more than 800 dollars, while each game piece over 200 dollars). It is for this reason that the public’s reception of the first Neo Geo console was less than great.
Atari 7800 (1986)
NEC TurboGrafx-16 (1987)

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (1988)

NEC SuperGrafx (1989)
Sega Master System II (1990)
SNK NeoGeo AES (Advanced Entertainment System) (1990)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990)

1991 – 1993

In the first few years of 1990s, there is a notable shift in the medium used for storing games from cartridges to compact discs. What this meant was that there were increased capacities for video gaming, prompting as well a transition of 2D graphics to that of 3D. The first CD console was launched by Philips (1991) – the CD-i. Regrettably, the console was more commonly recognized as a failure for its sub-standard games and frustrating controllers.
In 1992, NEC TurboGrafx-16 was upgraded to the TurboGrafx-CD to meet the demands of CD-based consoles. But again, it lost itself to Sega Genesis/MegaDrive with its latest add-on, the Sega CD. Atari made its last console appearance with their CD-based Atari Jaguar in 1993, which was meant to contest against the other 16-bit consoles like the Sega Genesis and SNES. It then found itself losing the console battle with more advanced next generation console like the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation a year later.
Commodore, a US-based home computer manufacturer, gained entry into the market with its very own Amiga CD32 (1993). Sadly, it was only for a brief few months before Commodore declared bankrupcy in 1994, thus prematurely ending the sales of a video game console with some potential.
Philips CD-i (1991)
NEC TurboDuo (1992)
Panasonic 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (1993)
Atari Jaguar (1993)

Commodore Amiga CD32 (1993)

1994 – 1997

In 1994, Sony finally made its entrance with the leading Playstation. Sega At the same time, Sega with its immense success of its MegaDrive/Genesis system, went on to expand it into a series, with the Genesis 2 (1994) and Genesis 3 (1997). It also developed an entirely new console, Saturn, to rival against the rest of the CD-based consoles. Nintendo, on the other hand, stuck to its cartridge system for its new Nintendo 64.
SNK Neo Geo moved on with a CD-based console in 1994. Having learnt their lesson for putting a costly tag for their console and games, the Neo Geo CD console costed $300 while its games costed around $50, which were sharp drops from its previous AES system. NEC now exhibited its new PC-FX, which looked more like a desktop CPU than a console. The technology they utilized was outdated when compared to that of Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation, hence what followed was that the console was phased out and NEC no longer produced home consoles.
During this time, there were also many other consoles which most of us would not have heard of. Bandai, Casio and even Apple came up with their own consoles. The Virtual Boy by Nintendo, launched in 1995, consisted of a head-mounted display to view 3D graphics.
Sega Genesis 2 (1994)
Sega Saturn (1994)
Playstation (1994)

SNK Neo Geo CD (1994)

NEC PC-FX (1994)
Bandai Playdia (1994)
Apple Bandai Pippin (1995)
Casio Loopy (1995)
Nintendo’s Virtual Boy (1995)
Nintendo 64 (1996)

Sega Genesis 3 (1997)

1998 – 2004

Sega Saturn was not a major success, so Sega thought of another new console for the next generation – the Sega Dreamcast (1998). In terms of providing internet support via its built-in modem for online playing, Dreamcast was the pioneer back in 1998. Two years later, Sony progressed on with the next Playstation, the Playstation 2. In 2001, Nintendo switched its cartridge-based Nintendo 64 to a DVD-ROM GameCube. That very same year, we saw Microsoft entered in the video game console industry in 2001 with its well-received Xbox, which featured online gaming service as well, the Xbox Live.
Now that the industry is stabilized after three decades of experimenting with all sorts of consoles, there were rarely any entry attempts by fresh companies. Interestingly enough, there is one XaviXPORT in 2004 that is relatively unheard of. The console uses cartridges and have controllers which looked like sports equipments to interact with on-screen games. It was basically used for working out and keeping fit. Kind of reminds us of the existing Nintendo Wii, doesn’t it?
Sega Dreamcast (1998)

Playstation 2 (2000)
Nintendo Gamecube (2001)
Xbox (2001)
XaviXPORT (2004)

2005 – 2011 (Today)

Finally, the current generation of video game console only has room for three major competitors: Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii. With full 1080p HD graphics for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and Wii’s innovative remote for sensing 3D movements, it seems that video gaming had indeed came a long, long way. In addition to these, all three consoles had expanded with add-ons such as the MotionPlus for Wii (2009), Kinect (2010) for Xbox 360 and Move (2010) for Playstation 3. These three add-ons similarly involved the capability to sense physical motion accurately, enhancing the interactive experience for players.
Most of the companies were already phased out – Atari, Coleco, NEC, Sega, etc, but there are currently still two adventurous companies who dare to compete head-on with the Big Three. Mattel is back with its Hyperscan console after disappearing from the industry for three decades. Marketed to young boys of the age of five to nine, it was only available for a year before they were taken off the shelf in 2007. The PC World Magazine ranked it the 7th worst video game system of all time.
On the other hand, the EVO Smart Console (2008) looks to be more promising with its HD graphics, internet access, 120GB hard drive and 2GB RAM. Also a Media PC, it is the first Linux Open Source game console. However, for some strange reason, the console’s official website is no longer available and is not even indicated in Envisions’ website.
Xbox360 (2005)

Playstation 3 (2006)
Wii (2006)
Mattel’s Hyperscan (2006)
Envizions EVO Smart Console (2008)
Wii MotionPlus (2009)
Kinect for Xbox 360 (2010)
PlayStation Move (2010)


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