History of Video Games By markmc13 Sep 14, 1952 Noughts and Crosses Sep 14, 1958 Space War created Sep 14, 1967 Light Gun invented Sep 14, 1971 First Arcade Machine Sep 14, 1972 Pong invented Sep 14, 1972 Atari Sep 14, 1973 Go Sep 14, 1976 Atari was sold Sep 14, 1977 Atari Sep 14, 1978 Space Invaders Sep 17, 1978 Magnavox Oddysey Sep 17, 1980 Pacman Sep 17, 1980 Battlezone Sep 17, 1983 Commodore Sep 17, 1983 Nintendos First Video Games Sep 17, 1986 Gameboy Sep 17, 1991 Sega Mega System Sep 17, 1992 Mortal Kombat Sep 17, 1994 Games Rated Sep 17, 1994 Sega Neptune Sep 17, 1995 PS1 Sep 17, 1996 Nintendo 64 Sep 17, 2000 PS2 Sep 17, 2000 The Sims Sep 17, 2001 First Big GTA game Sep 17, 2001 X-Box Sep 17, 2001 GameCube Sep 17, 2002 Americas Army Sep 17, 2004 Nintendo DS Sep 14, 2006 X-Box 360 released Sep 14, 2006 PSP released Sep 14, 2006 Wii released Sep 17, 2006 PS3