History of Electronic Games

Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device

Jan 25, 1947

Produced a CRT light beam that could be controlled by mechanical knobs.

First Video Game

May 6, 1949

Called EDSAC built at Cambridge University. Had a library of short programs called subroutines stored on punched paper tapes.

SEGA

Jan 1, 1951

SEGA was created and produced coin operated amusement-type games.

Pong

May 1, 1972

Pong a game based on table tennis was created.

Magnavox Odyssey

Aug 1, 1972

First Video Game System

Coleco Telstar

Jan 1, 1976

A pong clone that played several variants of the game.

Fairchild Channel F

Jan 1, 1976

World's second cartridge based console. Also the world's first programmable cartridge system.

Atari 2600

Oct 1, 1977

Video game console that made microprocessors and cartridges containing games popular.

Magnavox Odyssey2

Jan 1, 1978

Played programmable ROM catridges and allowed each game to have its own unique game experience.

Space Invaders

Oct 16, 1978

Space Invaders is released by Tatio

Pac-Man

Oct 16, 1980

Pacman is released in Japan, to be played on a micro home computer.

First Mario released

Oct 16, 1983

Mario was the first game of its time it was the first platform game and had plenty of different levels and villains to defeat.

The Video Game Crash

Oct 21, 1983

The Video game industry crashed in 1983 due to the amount of companies producing stale video games.

Nintendo NES

Oct 16, 1985

Nintendo release the NES. The NES helped bring the compter game industry back to life after the great video game crash in 1983 with games like Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr and Super Mario.

Game Boy

Oct 16, 1989

First hand held machine from Nintendo, called "Game Boy".

Sega Genesis

Oct 16, 1989

Sega releases the Sega Genesis. This was made in japan but was very popular in Europe and USA and later Brazil. It was released around the same time as the NES and there was a big rivalry.

Sony Playstation

Oct 16, 1994

Sony releases the Playstation in Japan. Playstation games were the nextlevel in computer gaming sony had stepped up the game with the graphics, the controls and it the games were on disc instead of the older cartridge form.

Nintendo 64

Oct 16, 1996

Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64, which couldn't really compete with the PS1 since it used disks,

Gameboy Color

Oct 16, 1998

New version of the Gameboy, but with a color screen

PS2

Oct 26, 2000

2nd Generation Gameconsole released in North America by Sony

Xbox

Nov 15, 2001

2nd Generation gameconsole released by Microsoft

Nintendo Gamecube

Nov 18, 2001

2nd Generation gameconsole released by Nintendo

Xbox 360

Nov 16, 2005

3rd generation gameconsole released by Microsoft

PS3

Nov 11, 2006

3rd Generation gameconsole released by Sony.

Nintendo Wii

Nov 16, 2006

3rd generation gameconsole released by NIntendo