History of electronic games By Travage77 Jan 1, 1949 Space Wars a game where a ship in space flies around shooting enemies Jan 1, 1972 Magnavox Odyssey This was the first home console to ever be released to the public Jan 1, 1972 Pong this was a game where two paddles rallied a ball back and forth Jan 1, 1974 Maze wars first person maze travel where a player moves through a maze shooting other players Jan 1, 1977 Atari 2600 Made the microprocessor popular in home videogames Jan 1, 1978 Space invaders shoot waves of aliens to get points Jan 1, 1980 Pac Man move through a maze eating dots while being chased by ghosts Jan 1, 1981 Donkey Kong move across platforms and jump over obstacles to recue a damsel in distress Jan 1, 1981 Galaga Player tries to move through stages and waves of alien ships Jan 1, 1983 Mario Bros- Must terminate creatures from sewers Jan 1, 1985 NES- brought game design back to america and set standard for consoles Jan 1, 1988 Sega Genisis- first direct competitor of SNES Jan 1, 1989 NIntendo Game Boy- first sucessful handheld with tetris as main game Jan 1, 1991 Sonic- platform game that made sega the most popular game console Jan 1, 1994 Sony Playstation-first console to ever reach the 100 million mark Jan 1, 1996 N64- named for its 64-bit processor Jan 1, 2000 PS2- the sucessor the playstation Jan 1, 2001 Gmae Cube- Nintendos 4th home game console Jan 1, 2001 Xbox- collaborated with sega in porting windows CE to the sega dreamcast console Jan 1, 2005 Xbox 360- released Xbox live which enabled users to play online and download content
