Game History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/12/1830	Pinball	Pinball developed out of a marble game popular in France. The French game was called Bagatelle
10/12/1931	Pinball 2	One of the most successful early pinball games was Baffle Ball developed by David Gottlieb
10/12/1947	interactive gaming	First known interactive game, meaning more then one player could play the game, was created by scientists by the name of Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr and Estle Ray Mann
10/12/1948	copyrights	First game to get copyrights was tennis for two copy rights means no one else can make the same thing or something highy similar
10/12/1958	tennis for two	tennis for two offically created wich was the original version of pongbasicly
10/12/1962	computers	computer gaming was created, so computers were now able to play games, but not every one could afford computers
10/12/1962	Space War	The game Space War was released this game was basiclly 2 triangle figures shooting at each other
10/12/1963	Text Based games	Text Bsed Games became popular from the 1960's to the 1970's these were basiclly games based on text no pgraphics just writing based
10/12/1965	Sega	this is the year that Sega was formed and began wok in the gaming industry
10/12/1966	T.V	Television gaming was introduced such as pong atari/sears telegames
10/12/1966	Sega	Segas first game is released which was a submatine simulator called periscope
10/12/1971	Golden Age	this year was classed as the golden age for arcade gaming meaning aracade games where most popular
10/12/1972	Atrai	This is the year that Atari was formed and also joined the gaming industry
10/12/1972	Pong	Pong was created based on the idea of Tennis for two
10/14/1972	Magnavox	Magnavox releases its gaming console the magnavox oddesy one of the first gaming consoles to be released
10/14/1975	magnavox 2	magnavox releases more gaming consoles the magnaxox oddesy 100 and 200 were follow ons from the original
10/12/1977	Atari game console	Atari released thier game console Atari 2600/Atari VCS (Video Computer System)
10/12/1981	Computer Graphics	Computer games with graphics (graphic cards were made)
10/12/1981	BBC Micro	BBC released BBC Micro was popular in education aka schools thios was the begining of gaming for education
10/12/1983	Crash	The gaming industry came to an all time stop with this industry crash the main cause was overprduction of games in which no one was interested or could afford
10/12/1984	Commadore 64	the commadore 64 came out and was reaonably cheap which made it very popular after the industry crash
10/12/1985	Computer Enhancments	Computers got sound cards and mouses which made them easier to use and more popular for gaming uses
10/12/1989	the 16 bit war	the 16 bit war also know as the fourth generation of gaming was about the war btween sega and nintendoit was between the console the snes and the mega drive the characters were sonic series and the mario series
10/12/1992	More Computer Enhancements	Computers were given 3D graphics (graphics cards were improved)
10/12/1994	Sony	Sony joined the gamining industry with the plastion 1 after thier ideas where shot down from other gaming companies
10/12/1995	Microsoft	Microsoft had a big influance PC gaming with thier software and making games for it
10/12/1997	Online	Online Gaming for the PC's was introduced in the late 1990's through the internet
10/12/2000	Microsoft Joins Gaming	microsoft joins the gaming console industry with the xbox
10/12/2000	Online gaming	online gaming introduced on to gaming consoles and became very popular on such gaming consoles as the playstation 2 xbox playstation 3 and the xbox360
10/12/2006	lastest of gaming	The latest of gaming consoles have been released the neitendo wii the ps3 and the Xbox360
10/14/2006	new rivelry	new rivelry between xbox made my microsoft and the playstation3 made by sony its similar to the 16 byte war betwwen sega and nintendo