Game History

  • Pinball

    Pinball
    Pinball developed out of a marble game popular in France. The French game was called Bagatelle
  • Pinball 2

    Pinball 2
    One of the most successful early pinball games was Baffle Ball developed by David Gottlieb
  • 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
  • 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
  • tennis for two

    tennis for two offically created wich was the original version of pongbasicly
  • Space War

    The game Space War was released this game was basiclly 2 triangle figures shooting at each other
  • computers

    computer gaming was created, so computers were now able to play games, but not every one could afford computers
  • 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
  • Sega

    this is the year that Sega was formed and began wok in the gaming industry
  • T.V

    T.V
    Television gaming was introduced such as pong atari/sears telegames
  • Sega

    Segas first game is released which was a submatine simulator called periscope
  • Golden Age

    this year was classed as the golden age for arcade gaming meaning aracade games where most popular
  • Atrai

    This is the year that Atari was formed and also joined the gaming industry
  • Pong

    Pong was created based on the idea of Tennis for two
  • Magnavox

    Magnavox
    Magnavox releases its gaming console the magnavox oddesy one of the first gaming consoles to be released
  • magnavox 2

    magnavox 2
    magnavox releases more gaming consoles the magnaxox oddesy 100 and 200 were follow ons from the original
  • Atari game console

    Atari released thier game console Atari 2600/Atari VCS (Video Computer System)
  • Computer Graphics

    Computer games with graphics (graphic cards were made)
  • BBC Micro

    BBC released BBC Micro was popular in education aka schools thios was the begining of gaming for education
  • 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
  • Commadore 64

    the commadore 64 came out and was reaonably cheap which made it very popular after the industry crash
  • Computer Enhancments

    Computers got sound cards and mouses which made them easier to use and more popular for gaming uses
  • 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
  • More Computer Enhancements

    Computers were given 3D graphics (graphics cards were improved)
  • Sony

    Sony
    Sony joined the gamining industry with the plastion 1 after thier ideas where shot down from other gaming companies
  • Microsoft

    Microsoft had a big influance PC gaming with thier software and making games for it
  • Online

    Online Gaming for the PC's was introduced in the late 1990's through the internet
  • Microsoft Joins Gaming

    Microsoft Joins Gaming
    microsoft joins the gaming console industry with the xbox
  • Online gaming

    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
  • lastest of gaming

    The latest of gaming consoles have been released the neitendo wii the ps3 and the Xbox360
  • new rivelry

    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