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History of Video Games

  • The first video game

    The first video game

    Tennis for two Two people played the electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer and used an oscilloscope for a screen. The game’s creator, William Higinbotham, was a nuclear physicist lobbied for nuclear nonproliferation as the first chair of the Federation of American Scientists.
  • the first home video game

    the first home video game

    The first video game console (working prototype) debuted as a bulky rectangular brown wooden box with two attached controllers, and thus the name "Brown Box". Invented by Ralph H. Baer (1922 – ), also known as "The Father of Video Games", he developed the brown video game console such that it can be hooked up with any ordinary TV sets. There were only six simple games for the console, namely ping-pong, tennis, handball, volleyball, chase games and a light-gun game.
  • First arcade game

    First arcade game

    Pong was the first arcade game released to the public
  • Pong home version released to the public

    Pong home version released to the public

    it was a consoole that to can bring home and it came with 2 controllers
  • Atari

    Atari

    one of the big selling consoles
  • The first console to have an gun as a controler

    The first console to have an gun as a controler

    Coleco Telstar Sportsman was tyhe first console to have a gun as a controller
  • the first video game to have an cartrage holder

    the first video game to have an cartrage holder

    the first viedeo game where you can buy multiple game and put it in the console
  • Nintendo Entertainment System

    Nintendo Entertainment System

    the first biggest cartrege console
  • The Playstation

    The Playstation

    The soon to be famous console in the world
  • Nintendo’s Virtual Boy

    Nintendo’s Virtual Boy

    the next step into virtural gaming
  • The next Generation

    The next Generation

    the playstaion 2 was the next step to next generation of gaming
  • the xbox

    the xbox

    the side by side conpeditor with the playstation
  • The wii

    The wii

    was a big console for its wirless trackible controller
  • Kinect for Xbox 360

    Kinect for Xbox 360

    was the next step for controlling a game without a controller
  • the playstion 4 and xbox one

    the playstion 4 and xbox one

    the next and current generation of console and console wars