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First computer game
In the year 1952 the first video game was made to be played on the computer. This game was Noughts and Crosses (Tic Tac Toe). This game was created by A. S. Douglas. It was displayed on a grid of nine boxes. -
First arcade style game
In 1958 the first action based (action style) was made on computer. This game was Tennis For Two. Tennis For Two was created by Willy Higinbotham at Brookhaven national labs. This game inspired Pong (1972) -
Computer Mouse
Douglas Englebart invents the computer mouse. -
Pong
Pong, Atari's first game, is released. It's the first successful and mass-marketed arcade videogame - so successful that people line up outside the bar where the first unit is located, waiting for the establishment to open. Pong was played on a black screen with a paddle on each side who needs to hit the ball back to the opposition -
Space Invaders
Space invaders was a vertical shooter with the aim of shooting the enemy space ships. This made was made by Atari. It was the first video game to inspire real mania and "addiction" - young gamers commited crimes to get enough money to play, and the game caused a coin shortage in Japan. -
Pacman
Pac-Man was the first game to be as popular with women as it is with men. The player controls Pac-Man through a blue maze, eating pac-dots (also called pellets) and fruit. When all pac-dots are eaten, Pac-Man is taken to the next stage. Between some stages one of three intermission animations plays. Four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) roam the maze, trying to catch Pac-Man -
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is not the first climbing game, but is the first multi-level climbing (platform) game and spawns many similar games. Donkey Kong first made his appearance in the 1981 arcade machine called Donkey Kong in which he faced Jumpman (later renamed Mario). Donkey Kong would throw barrels which would roll down and the player would have to avoid them. -
Super Mario Bros
Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros., a spectacularly successful sideways scrolling run and jump game that spawns innumerable sequels and imitators. -
Hard Disk
Killer Instinct was the first arcade game with a hard disk up to that point the game with the highest quality graphics pre-rendered by a rendering program,