History of Electronic Games By Dimas in Class Jun 28, 1972 Atari. Founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney Atari was founded. Feb 11, 1975 PONG: First arcade game "PONG" created. First arcade game "PONG" created. Feb 11, 1977 VCS, for Video Computer System joystick console that later featured PAC-MAN Released Jan 1, 1978 Taito. Trading Company became a videogame and software company. Released. Jun 1, 1978 Space Invaders. Created in Japan and later licensed by Midway. Nov 1, 1979 Asteroids. multi-directional shooter arcade video game released Released Feb 11, 1980 Centepede. Shoot em' up arcade game by Atari Released Released. May 22, 1980 Pac-Man. Arcade game developed by Namco.Generated 2.5 billion in quarters Jul 9, 1981 Donkey-Kong. Platformer game that featured jump man that later became known as Mario. Sep 17, 1981 Galaga.Fixed shooter game by namco. Jul 14, 1983 Mario Bros. Most Successful Japanese game. Created Dec 11, 1983 E.T. The Game. Worst game releaed by Atari or anyone released worst game ever Jun 6, 1984 Tetris. Geometric Puzzle game on Original GameBoy Released. Jan 1, 1985 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo. bit video game console released by Nintendo. Feb 26, 1986 The Legend of Zelda. Wildly successful adventure game by Nintendo. Released Apr 21, 1989 Nintendo's Gameboy. nintendo released there first portable gaming system Oct 30, 1991 Sonic the hedgehog. An original Sega platformer that released on their 16-bit console Feb 1, 1996 Nintendo 64. named for its 8-bit processesor.
