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A physicist named William Higinbotham created a basic tennis game, much like pong, and was credited for creating the very first videogame.
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"Computer space" was introduced as the first commercial arcade game by Nutting Associates
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Introduced as the first home videogame system by Magnavox. Didnt even have a microprocessor. Only had a board with about four-dozen transistors and diodes inside of it. It was only able to produce simple graphics.
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Pong was introduced on the Atari arcade system.
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the Atari system and its games were available for home entertainment
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Nintendo introduced the Nintendo Entertainment System
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Tetris is developed by a Russian programmer named Alex Pajitnov
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Sega introduces the Sega Master System to compete with NES
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Nintendo releases the GameBoy for $109
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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.
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The case that started a year before resulted in ratings for video games like E 10+ for everyone 10 and up, T for teen, and M for mature.
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Sony brings play station to America for $299
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The nintendo 64 is released in America
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The GameCube delivers new forms of interactive gaming for players and an easier development environment for game creators.
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Nintendo releases the Nintendo DS, a portable game system
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Nintendo releases the Wii, a gaming system that lets gamers use the controller in different ways,
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Sony comes out with play station move and microsoft (xbox) comes out with connect
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Microsoft gets Mojang and its popular "minecraft" game
