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History of Video Games

By bruhbruhbruh999

  • First Video Game releases.

    First Video Game releases.
    Physicist William Higinbotham created Pong in october of 1958. It happened during a open house hosted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He did it because he wanted to prove that science wasn't about war and destruction.

  • SNES releases

    SNES releases
    SNES releases in 1985. The SNES saves home consoles and was later succeeded by the Nintendo 64 in 1993. This console also allowed backwards compatability between the gameboy and the SNES

  • Mortal Kombat releases.

    Mortal Kombat releases.
    Mortal Kombat comes out and introduces a lot of gore into videogames. It also popularizes fighting games. Mk first came out on the arcade.

  • Sony releases the Playstation

    Sony releases the Playstation
    Sony releases the Playstation and is the first of many playstation to come. This console is the first to use CD's. Also the first console to have a good controller.

  • Playstation 2 becomes best selling console

    Playstation 2 becomes best selling console
    PS2 becomes best selling console. It sold 500k units on the first day. It starts competition with the Microsoft Xbox.

  • PS3 is released

    PS3 is released and is the first console to use Blu-Ray disks. This console is the first to have its own official wireless controller. This console also is did not charge you to play online unlike the Xbox which was the PS3's competition.

  • MW2 changes trash talk forever

    Modern Warfare 2 is released and it changed trash talk forever. This game had a very toxic community and every lobby would be filled with people screaming at each other. This changed trash talk forever.

  • Minecraft becomes best selling game of all time

    Minecraft becomes best selling game of all time
    Minecraft becomes the best selling game of all time. The game has sold over 176 Million copies world wide. The game also popularizes youtube trolling.

  • GTA 5 releases

    GTA 5 releases
    GTA 5 makes $1B in 3 days after just being released and breaks records. In the first day it sold 11 million copies. On the first day it made $800M.

  • Advanced Warfare introduces another level of greed.

    Advanced Warfare introduces another level of greed.
    Advanced Warfare tried to fix what Cod: Ghosts broke but instead introduces a hate for the Call of Duty franchise. It also introduced another level of greed for Activision. It also introduced exo suits to the series.