The History of Video Games

  • Tennis For Two

    Tennis For Two
    Video game made out of old radar equipment
  • Spacewar

    Spacewar was developed on a 1960s computer that was originally intended for military strategy.
  • Magnovox Odyssey

    Magnovox Odyssey
    Worlds first home video game console and it used cartridges.
  • Pong

  • APF TV FUN

    APF TV FUN
  • RCF studio 2

  • Atari 2600

    Atari 2600
  • Space Invaders

    Space Invaders
  • Intellivision

    Intellivision
  • Donkey Kong

    Donkey Kong
  • Tetris

    Tetris
  • Video Game Crash of 1984

    The delay of Atari's 7800 consoles left them with little to captivate consumers hungry for the next big thing.
    A flood of consoles on the US market gave consumers too many choices.
    Many poor game titles and too many games based on the movie ET The Extraterrestrial.
    Introduction of personal computers like the Commodore 64, whose theme “Why buy your child a video game and distract them from school when you can buy them a home computer that will prepare them for college?”
    Millions of consumers shi
  • NES

    NES
  • Zelda

    Zelda
    first game on a console with a save feature
  • Sega Master System

    Sega Master System
  • Final Fantasy

    Final Fantasy
  • Sega Genesis

    Sega Genesis
  • Gameboy

    Gameboy
    First handheld that used cartridges.
  • Super Nintindo

    Super Nintindo
  • Turbo Grafix 16

    Turbo Grafix 16
  • Playstation

    Playstation
  • Sega Saturn

    Sega Saturn
  • Nintindo 64

    Nintindo 64
  • Sega Dreamcast

    Sega Dreamcast
    Last of the sega consoles. Was 128 bits and the first game console that could connect to the internet.
  • Microsoft Xbox

    Microsoft Xbox
    Was 128 bit but the Halo series was exclusive to the xbox. Halo revolutionized videogames specificaly first person shooters and was so popular that it allowed the xbox to continue to compete and thrive.