History of computer video games

  • Knobs were made

    Knobs were made

    Knobs and buttons were made for the Cathode Ray Tube
  • Period: to

    timespan

  • Adama

    Adama

    Charley Adama created a bouncing ball program.
  • Douglas

    Douglas

    Douglas created the first graphic game version of Tic-Tac-Toe
  • Higinbotham

    Higinbotham

    William Higinbotham created a game with an oscilloscope and an anology computer.
  • M.I.T

    M.I.T

    students at M.I.T programmed a game called spacewar.
  • RB

    RB

    Ralph Baer created a simple video game called chase
  • Prototypes

    Prototypes

    Ralph had a prototype that could play several different games at once.
  • Computer

    Computer

    Most computer games were developed on main frame computers and the first commercially viable in 1971
  • Noah

    Noah

    Noah Bushwell created the first coin version of spacewar it was called computer space
  • Noah

    Noah

    He played ping-pong but found it uninteresting video game.
  • crashes begin

    crashes begin

    A major crash was do to the fact that companies were forced to sell older obsolete systems
  • crashes begin

    crashes begin

    Another crash happened because of poor quality video games