History Of Video Games

By cramptonfe

  • First Video Game Invented (Table Tennis)

    Physicist Willy Higinbotham invents the first "video game" at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. His game, a table tennis-like game, was played on an oscilloscope.

  • First Home Gaming System (Magnavox Odyssey)

  • Atari system released at 250$

  • First Video Games in Museum

  • First Video Game Magazine, Electronic Games

  • Gameboy released for 160$

  • First three dimensional Video Game system

  • Games declared "Artistic Expression" in France

  • Smithsonian "Art Of Video Games" Exhibit opens

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