Second generation of video game consoles — video game consoles and handheld game consoles generally introduced between 1976 and 1984.

It was affected by the North American video game crash of 1983−1985.

Video game consoles (second generation)

Types

Second
generation

Home	APF-MP1000 Arcadia 2001 Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Bally Astrocade ColecoVision Epoch Cassette Vision Fairchild Channel F Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy Interton VC 4000/1292 Advanced Programmable Video System Intellivision Odyssey 2 RCA Studio II Vectrex Super Vision 8000 VTech CreatiVision
Handheld	Milton Bradley Microvision Children's Discovery System Entex Select-A-Game Entex Adventure Vision 3D Gamate Variety Palmtex Portable Videogame System / Super Micro Digi Casse Romtec Colorvision Epoch Game Pocket Computer
Dedicated	Nintendo Game & Watch

← First generation

Third generation →

History of video games

v t e Chronology of video games
Early history	1947–1972
1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020s	2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Near future

v t e Video game history by platform
By platform	Early mainframe games History of arcade video games Golden age Timeline History of video game consoles Video game crash of 1983 Console war History of mobile games
By console generation	First (1972–1980) Second (1976–1992) Third (1983–2003) Fourth (1987–2003) Fifth (1993–2005) Sixth (1998–2013) Seventh (2005–2017) Eighth (2012–) Ninth (2020–)

Video game genres

List of video game genres

Shooter	Arena First-person Hero Light gun Shoot 'em up Bullet hell Rail Twin-stick Tactical Third-person
Other	Beat 'em up Hack and slash Fighting Platform fighter Maze Pac-Man clone Platformer Endless runner Platform fighter Snake Stealth Survival Battle royale

Action-adventure

Digital tabletop

Survival horror

ARPG	Looter shooter Soulslike
Other	Dungeon crawl Monster-taming Roguelike Roguelike deck-building Tactical role-playing

Life	Dating Farming God Social Virtual pet
Management	Business City-building Government
Sports	Fishing Racing Kart racing Sim racing
Vehicle	Flight simulation Combat Space Lunar Lander Submarine simulator Train simulator Vehicular combat
Other	Falling-sand Immersive sim

Other genres

Related concepts

Themes	Advergame Bishōjo Christian Comedy Educational Girls Licensed Otome Sexual Eroge Nonviolent Personalized Sci-fi Serious Art
Player modes	Multiplayer Co-op PVP Single-player
Production	AAA Indie Doujin soft Fan game
Technology	Arcade Console Geolocation-based Mobile Online Browser Cloud MMO MMOFPS MMORPG MMORTS Social network PC Linux Mac Virtual reality
Design	Casual Hypercasual Emergent gameplay FMV Gacha Kaizo Masocore Nonlinear gameplay Open world Sandbox Side-scrolling Twitch gameplay Vertically scrolling
Other	Minigame Toys-to-life Video game clone Video game modding

v t e Video games by country
Africa	Ghana Kenya Nigeria South Africa
Americas	Latin America (* Brazil * Colombia) Canada United States
Asia	Bangladesh China India Indonesia Iran Japan South Korea Malaysia Philippines Russia Thailand Turkey
Europe	Belgium Czech Republic Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Lithuania Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

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