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Tennis
Willy Higinbotham creates a tennis game on an oscilloscope and analog computer for public demonstration in Brookhaven National Laboratory. About 2 years later it was forgotten about 2 years later.http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Students invent
Students at MIT create mouse in the Maze on MIT's TX-0 computer users first draw a maze with a light pen then a mouse navigates through it.
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John Burgeson
Computer programmer John Burgeson stays home sick from work at IBM and starts developing a computer baseball simulation.A month later the first actual program was created. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Raytheon company
The Raytheon company develops a computer simulation of global cold war conflict for the U.S joint chiefs of staff. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
MIt
MIT student Steve Russell invents space war the first computer based video game. Over the next decade the game spreads across the country. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Cuban Missiles
Months after the cuban missile crisis the U.S defense department completed a war game known as Stage. Showing the U.S will win the war.http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Football
A day after Dartmouth defeats princeton 28-14 in football to win the Ivy league championship, a Dartmouth student invented the first online computer football game. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Game machine
Ralph Baer develops his "Brown Box" the video game prototype that lets users play tennis and other games. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Home Game
Ralph Baer patents his interactive system television game. Four years later Magnavox releases odyssey, the first home based video game system. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Pong Machine
Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn of Atari develop an arcade tennis game. When it was tested it got jammed up with to many quarters and stopped working. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Pacman
A missing slice of pizza inspires Namco's Toru Iwatani to create Pac-man, which goes on sale in July 1980. That year a version of Pac-Man for Atari 2600 becomes the first arcade game to appear on a home console. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Atari vs Philips
Atari sued Philips for copying Pac-Man and the court ruled in Atari's favor saying it was copy infringement. Pac-Man was still criticized for its terrible graphics. http://mentalfloss.com/article/55078/11-times-video-games-led-lawsuits -
King Kong vs Donkey Kong
The case was heard in New York and Nintendo was accused of infringement of universals King Kong. The court ruled in Nintendo's favor saying it was not copyright infringement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_City_Studios,_Inc._v._Nintendo_Co.,_Ltd. -
Madden
John Madden Football introduces gridiron realism to computer games, making this game- and its many console sequels- perennial best sellers. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Rating System
New ESRB rating system announced, with 5 rating categories and 17 content descriptors to let parents and people know what the games like. http://www.esrb.org/about/chronology.aspx -
Playstation
Sony releases Playstation in the United States, selling for $100 less than Sega Saturn. The lower price point, along with the arrival of Nintendo 64 in 1996, weakens Sega's home console business. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Xbox 360
Microsoft's Xbox 360 brings high definition realism to the game market, as well as even better multiplayer competitions on Xbox Live and popular titles such as Alan Wake. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Skylanders
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure becomes the first argumented reality hit by letting players place a plastic figure on a portal of power to zap a character into the game. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Pokemon Go
Players hunt for virtual creatures like Pikachu and Horsea in the real world with Niantic's free to play Pokemon Go the game of summer 2016. http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline -
Madden Evolution
Started off with only 7 players on each side of the ball, jut madden didn't like that so he insisted on them making it 11v11 and they did graphics also evolved alot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKm-EeC14D8
