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history of video games

By alonsobohorquez

  • 1958

    1958
    WILLIAM NIGHINBOTTHAM created a game called tennis for two using a laboraty oscillos cope,it consisted on intercepting a ball that orossed the acreen by moving a line that formed a palette he never patented it,in 1972,atari sold it under the name of
    pong

  • 1961

    1961
    STEVE RUSELL wnote the spacewar code ona pop-1 computer at MIT. the code reached numerous computers in other universities constituting the first computer game in history

  • 1966

    1966
    1966 – 1971 RALPH BEAR builf at home the first video game consde that hit the market under the name of magnavox odyssey in 1972

  • 1971

    1971
    1971 – 1977
    NOLAN BUSHNELL created computer space,a pre-arcade that worked with coins and was located in bars and taverns. LAUNCHED IN 1976 of death race,an arcade game inspined by the homonymous film.the game sparked the first controversies in relation to vidence in video games

  • 1972

    1972
    1972
    magnavox odyssey:
    ralph baser I create the first video game console

  • 1975

    1975
    1975
    atari pong
    chip and a console that allowed to play at home

  • 1977

    1977
    1977
    atari 2600
    an 8-bit processor and with the possibility of playing multiple games, which came in the form of a cartridge and could be purchased separately

  • 1978

    1978
    1978
    nintendo color tv
    racing 112
    a console that included a steering wheel and gear lever to play a really simple car racing game

  • 1979

    1979
    1979
    mattel intellivision
    the first 16-bit console, and it was also the first to use the networks.

  • 1980

    1980
    1980
    nintendo game and watch
    first nintendo portable video-console, that could be carried in your pocket to play anywhere

  • 1989

    1989
    1989
    gameboy
    portable console, with microprocessor Z80 to 8 bits, LCD screen of 160x144, 4 shades of gray, sound, 4 batteries that provided more than 20 hours of game, and the tetris included as standard

  • 1990

    1990
    1990
    color screen and far superior to the gameboy had a good game catalog and, using an adapter, could be used to watch television

  • 1996

    1996
    1996
    gameboy pocket
    Gameboy much smaller and lighter, with a larger screen and higher resolution, and with two batteries instead of four

  • 1998

    1998
    1998
    gameboy color
    incorporates the color, nimtendo I hope that the low consumption of the components and the improvement of the electric batteries will lead to a great autonomy for the console

  • 2001

    2001
    2001
    gameboy advance
    much more powerful than the previous ones in graphics, sound and speed of the microprocessor, which runs at 32 bits. It was 17 times faster than the gameboy color. allows to play all the cartridges of the previous gameboy versions, and allows to play in network

  • 2003

    2003
    2003
    nokia N-Gage
    It incorporates functionalities such as the telephone, as a game console and as an mp3 and video player in your N-Gage. allowed to play multiple games

  • 2004

    2004
    It was released in Japan on December 12, 2004. The "slim" PSP revision of the console was released in September 2007. The PSP-3000 is released for sale in August 2008. It is currently available in all the world.

  • 2005

    2005
    2005 - 2006
    Microsoft released the xbox 360

  • 2006

    2006
    2006 - 2007
    revolution in the world of leisure with nintendo wii. released from playstation 3. the best-selling game of the year was wii sports

  • 2007

    2007
    2007 - 2008
    released from halo 3 for the game started Microsoft