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Traditional Game Nim
At the Westinghouse display in the World's Fair, Edward U. Condon designs a computer that plays the traditional game Nim. You have to avoid picking up the last matchstick. 90% of the people that play the game loses to the computer. -
OXO
A.S. Douglas creates a game known as noughts and crosses in the United Kingdom and tic-tac-toe in the United States. You would play against a AI that would counter your move. -
IBM-701 Checkers
Arthur Samuel demonstrates his computer checkers program on national television. After six years, the program defeats a checkers master. -
Spacewar
Student Steve Russell creates the first computer based game. Over the following decade, the game has spread across the nation. The gameplay was in outer space and you had to take down the other spaceship. -
The Brown Box
Ralph Baer develops his "Brown Box", the video game prototype that lets users play tennis and other games. It has controls and a multigame program system. -
Pong
Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn of Atari developed an arcade table tennis game. You use paddles to hit the ball back and forth. The goal is to reach 11 before your opponent; points are earned when one fails to return the ball to the other. -
Maze Wars
A first-person shooter game by taking players into a labyrinth of passages made from wire-frame graphics. You would have to shoot the other player to gain points and lose if you are shot at. -
Pac-Man
A missing slice of pizza inspires Namco's Toru Iwatani to create Pac-Man. It has one of the highest-grossing video games of all time having more than $2.5 billion in QUARTERS by the 1990s. -
Tetris
Russian mathematician Alexey Pajtnov creates Tetris, a simple but addictive puzzle game. The game leaks out from behind the Iron Curtain, and four years later, Nintendo bundles it with every new Game Boy -
Warcraft
Blizzard releases warcraft: Orcs and Humans, a real time strategy game that introduces millions of players to the legendary world of Azeroth -
Tomb Raider
Lara Croft is the star of Eidos's adventure game Tomb Raider. You would have to make your way out of a maze. Players love her, but the critics charge that she's an example of sexism in video games. -
League of Legends'
Riot game has created a 5v5 MOBA game on the computer. It took the world by storm and has became a Esport. It is a top video game and is played around the world. -
Minecraft
The indie game movement comes of age with the tremendous popularity of Minecraft, the addictive brick-building game from Swedish developer Markus Persson -
Fortnite
Fortnite is an online video game released in 2017 and developed by Epic Games. It is a free to play battle royale game where up to 100 players fight to be the last man standing.
