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Pinball
Pinball developed out of a marble game popular in France. The French game was called Bagatelle -
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
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 releases its gaming console the magnavox oddesy one of the first gaming consoles to be released -
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 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 the gaming console industry with the xbox -
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 between xbox made my microsoft and the playstation3 made by sony its similar to the 16 byte war betwwen sega and nintendo