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Tennis For Two
LinkDeveloped by Nolan Bushnell in 1958, this game was designed using a simple circuit to play tennis on an oscilliscope. -
Spacewar
LinkThis game developed by an MIT student named Steve Russell was the first of many to be interactive on a computer. This game ran off of a mainframe computer that was initally programmed in pearl. -
Brown Box
LinkThe virst multiplayer Television Viewed console , the brown box, developed by Ralph H. Baer, was an astonishing invention that exceeded the expectations of his time and helped progress digital gaming by leaps and bounds. -
Computer Space
Link This game became the first arcade based computer game which released almost 1500 different copies, which at the time was unheard of. -
Atari (Pong)
LinkThe seventies was a great decade for arcade style games.. The most successful of these in my opinobn was the ATARI system. This name is well known today for games like the legendary pong, bloack break, asteroids, and others. -
Telstar
LinkThis is the first gaming system released by Colco, it hosts a wide variety of games spanning from racing games to first person shooters. -
Atari 2600
LinkThis is the very first "Cartrige based" gaming console released by Atari selling for voer $250 per unit. This too took leaps and bounds over the previous systems and current systems of its time. -
Space Invaders
LinkThis widely known and fun to play game known as space invaders was released by the company Midway in the year 1978. Initally it was meant for arcade style gaming but it was eventually introduced into the atari gaming consile. -
Asteroids
Link This year also holds a record for atari releasing the first game to allow naming of high scores (Asteroids). This is the beginning of a save system. -
Cosmos
LinkAtari releases a hand held game called cosmos, but it is very glitchy and is so unsuccessful it is eventually taken off of the market. -
Intelivision
This device was the first real competitor of the Atari 2600 but it had a higher retail price. This system ahd the capabilities of a computer at the time and it eventually helped run 3d games like doom. -
Pacman
LinkNamco, a new name in game design at that time, released hundreds of copies of the program that is to later become famous known as pacman. -
Atari 5600
LinkThis versio of atari offers more stable and more graphically pleasing games than the prvious versions. This is released in order to compete with Colco's intellivision and colcovision. -
NES
LinkThe NES, otherwise known as the Nintendo Entertainment System, was first released in japan so it did not have to compete with Atari. Eventually Nintendo offered to give Atari partial rights to sell this system in the US but it fell through, the united states did not see the NES untill the year 1985. -
Dragon lair
LinkThis game was important not because of the gamee play but actually how the game was run. this was the first game that actually ran off of lazer disk technology. -
Commodore 64
This system is released durrign this year and it is known as the most powerful system of its time, even surpassing the atari systems in terms of ram, graphics capability and speed. -
Tetrirs
LinkThe arcade game Tetris developed by the Russian programmer Alex Pjiatnov and released int his year. It was primarily released to be played on the PC. -
Atari 7800
LinkBecause of all of the new competitors Atari felt threatened in t he gaming market and they eventually developed the Atari 7800 with better graphics and a stronger processor. -
SMS
LinkWhen the NES is finally released in the United States, Sega releases the SMS or the Sega Master System, this system was built to run games that had been previously produced by SEGA and it eventually allowed SEGA to become its own system and company. -
GameBoy
LinkIn the year 1989 Nintendo wants to compete even more with atari and they release the Gameboy in japan which is eventually sold in the US in 1995. The GambeBoy eventually became the best selling handheld device of all time. -
Genesis
LinkThe Geenesis system released by SEGS was the very first 16 bit system that was meant for home use. This deevice was rather expencive for the time but it was a strong comptetitor of the atari and nintendo systems. -
Atari Jaguar
LinkIt was in this year that based uppon the evolutions of gaming systems and games that Atari was competing with, atari decided to try and add a new product to the market. The Atari Jaguar was meant to be the first 64 bit processing system but in reality it only ran 2 different 32 bit processors. -
Play Station
LinkIt was in this year that the "Next Generation" of gaming consoles and gasmes caqme along. Sony, an electric design company releases their first system known as the Play Station, this is the first of three different play stations produced today. -
Nintendo 64
LinkThe Nintendo 64 is a rather self explainitory system, it is a console based truely 64 bit gaming system. -
X-Box
LinkMicrosoft, a company that mostly focused on PC's released the X-Box gaming system that claimed to be the most powerful gaming experience on the market.
