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A.S. Douglas creates OXO This is a game known as noughts and crossed in the united kingdom and tic tac toe in the united states.
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Alex Bernstein writes the first complete computer chess game.
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1958 - William Higinbotham created "Ping pong" tennis on an oscilloscope screen by William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Steve Russell, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, creates Space war, the first interactive computer game. It runs on a Digital PDP-1 mainframe computer, and the graphics are made up of ASCII text characters.
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Ralph Baer, an engineer at Sanders Associates, receives support from his company (a military electronics consulting firm in NH) to explore his idea of creating interactive games using a television.
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Computer Space becomes first video arcade game ever released. 1500 games are distributed. Public consensus is that it is too difficult to play.
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Atari introduces its first cartridge-based home video system called the Video Computer System which later becomes known as the Atari 2600. It retails for $249.95.
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Atari introduces its first cartridge-based home video system called the Video Computer System which later becomes known as the Atari 2600. It retails for $249.95.
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Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel found the first video-game magazine, Electronic Games.
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Atari releases the Atari 5200 to compete with Coleco's Colecovision.
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The popular game Tetris is developed by Russian programmer Alex Pajitnov. It is played on a PC.
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Nintendo's NES is released in the U.S. after being test-marketed in NY one year earlier.
To compete with the NES, Sega introduces the Sega Master System.
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Atari releases the Jaguar, attempting to be the first 64-bit console on the market. The product actually runs two 32-bit processors.
Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin launch a Senate investigation into violence in video games, hoping to initiate a ban on violent games. -
Resulting from the Senate investigation, the Entertainment Software Rating Board is created. Rating are now given to video games and are marked on the games' packaging to indicate the suggested age of players and violent content.
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Resulting from the Senate investigation, the Entertainment Software Rating Board is created. Rating are now given to video games and are marked on the games' packaging to indicate the suggested age of players and violent content.
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Sony brings the PlayStation to the U.S. and sells the console for $299.
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Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 in Japan (it's released in the U.S. in 1996).
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Nintendo releases the Nintendo DS, a portable system with two screens, one of which can be used as a touch screen.
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New motion control systems--Sony's PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect--let players interact in a more immersive way, doing away with controllers and letting players use their bodies instead.
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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim showcases the beauty, majesty, and massiveness of video games as players explore a seemingly endless, beautifully rendered fantasy world.
