History of video game design

Beginnig

Jan 20, 1947

tennis for two

gen 1

Jan 20, 1972

Arcade becomes a thing (titles like pong)

gen 2 begins

Jan 21, 1976

the first cartrige game is made and home consle begins

the first "3D" game is made

Jan 21, 1980

isn't largly produced and has flaws but leads to an eventual 3D gaming revolution

golden age of arcade

Jan 20, 1981

games like donkey kong

game crash in America

Jan 21, 1983

American game development crashes and is overtaken by Japan

16 bit revives game industry

Jan 21, 1991

consles like the snes and sega genisis bring 16 bit grapics and videogame revival to america

Playstation is released

Jan 21, 1994

starting cd rom gaming

Playstation 2 is released

Mar 4, 2000

becomes extremly popular

original xbox is released

Nov 15, 2001

by microsoft

Nintendo game cube is realeased

Nov 18, 2001

the mainstay of PC gaming Steam is released by Valve

Sep 12, 2003

Is the largest game store/creating/playing site available

GTA San andreas is published

Oct 26, 2004

becomes the most popular ps2 game

Halo 2 is published

Nov 9, 2004

becomes the most popular game on the original xbox

God of war is published on PS2

Mar 22, 2005

becomes most popular ps2 game (exclusive)

xbox 360 released

May 12, 2005

7th generation of video games begins

8th gen begins

May 21, 2013

with xbox one and PS4