History Video Games

  • First Video Game

    First Video Game
    In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house.
  • More Games!

    More Games!
    After pong was the first game to be created. more games have been develpoed by more companies over the years like Tank or Space Invaders
  • Companies And Console's

    Companies And Console's
    Microsoft was introduce into the new company that they are making games. but instead of arcade gams they started to make a console called the Xbox. People dint know what it was at the time, but xbox was like a box full with wires and chips for it and it has their own controllors that you play with it.
  • The Violent Game

    The Violent Game
    The kids were playing a new game that parents know about until it got famous, it was called Mortal Kombat, an 1v1 Fighting game that the player must deafeated the enemy to win, but the game had a alot of blood and gore in it even taking body parts off of them. of cousre parents did not like this game to be play with kids. so they wanted to report to developers about shutting the game down.
  • Mobile Games

    Mobile Games
    The first mobile phone game was introduced in 1994. It was a pre-installed form of Tetris, which came on a mobile phone called the Hagenuk MT-2000. Phones were now a new technology for games and contacts, but of course arcade's and console were famous at the time so people wouldn't play on their phones to much
  • Games Now At Home With You

    Games Now At Home With You
    Games can now play games at home. So now kids don't have to go out and go to the arcade and waste thier money on games, but now kids can play at home with new companies that are now building something new that kids can play.
  • Console and Ratings

    Console and Ratings
    The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001, in North America, February 22, 2002, in Japan, and March 14, 2002, in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market.a rating system is important because of failed efforts to ban or restrict children's access to violent video games, often ruled unconstitutional by the courts.
  • More And More Games

    More And More Games
    After games were in new technology and how advance our games are. Games will never die off, bc with our technology growing games will better and better every single year of it.