history of video games from 1958-present By robbie1811waring Oct 25, 1958 willi creates the tennis game Period: Oct 25, 1958 to Dec 31, 2014 video games May 7, 1962 slug makes the spacewar game Mar 12, 1967 the brown box was made Sep 16, 1971 computer space Jan 27, 1972 magnavox odysey Aug 28, 1974 first home edition of pong Oct 6, 1976 the first apple pc comes out Feb 5, 1977 space invaders May 17, 1977 atari 2600 comes out Mar 2, 1980 the intellivision was created May 9, 1980 8 bit colour introduced to games Mar 15, 1982 Trip Hawkins created the group EA Dec 8, 1982 the comodor64 was launched Aug 29, 1984 Alexey pajitnov devolopes tetris Jul 14, 1985 gaming industry takes of again Sep 25, 1985 the first nintendo (nes) was made Apr 19, 1986 sega launched the master system Dec 7, 1988 John Madden football creates a new trend in 1988 Aug 14, 1989 sega mega drive Sep 13, 1989 sega launched sonic the hedgehog in 1989 Aug 23, 1991 super nintendo system May 27, 1992 wolfenstein was launched in the first person perspective Sep 24, 1993 doom was released having the first online option Sep 9, 1995 play station 1 Sep 29, 1996 nintendo 64 Oct 26, 2000 play station 2 Nov 15, 2001 xbox Nov 18, 2001 nintendo created the gamecube Nov 16, 2005 xbox 360 Nov 11, 2006 play station 3 Nov 19, 2006 the nintendo wii was developed Apr 25, 2011 the nintendo wii u was added to the wii Nov 15, 2013 sony releases the ps4 Nov 22, 2013 microsoft releases the xbox one
