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Consoles, cartridges, loading screens and the shop that let you trade three games for one.

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1980s 1982

Sinclair's £175 home computer put programming into British bedrooms and created an entire games industry.

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1980s 1983

The best-selling home computer of all time, and the other half of every argument in every British school in 1985.

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1980s 1987

Sega's 8-bit console flopped in Japan and America but did unusually well in Britain, Europe and Brazil.

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1990s 1990

Sonic, Streets of Rage, and a marketing campaign aimed squarely at making Nintendo look like it was for children.

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1990s 1992

Nintendo's handheld sold on Tetris and battery life, and the link cable made trading Pokémon possible five years later.

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2000s 2000

Sony's machine that was cheap enough to buy for the DVD playback and then quietly became the games console everyone owned.

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2000s 2005

A spreadsheet with a football badge on it, and one of the most compulsive things ever put on a computer.

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2000s 2007

Motion controls, Wii Sports in the box, and a strap you were told to use and did not.

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2010s 2016

An augmented reality game that briefly turned every park in Britain into a crowd scene.

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