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First video game in history is called "Pong". Physicist Willy Higinbotham invented at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. It is a table tennis sports game
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Steve Russell, creates "Spacewar". It was the first interactive computer game.
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Baer and team created two interactive TV games—a chase game and a tennis game. They are also able to manipulate a toy gun so that it detects spots of light on the TV screen.
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Computer Space - first video arcade game ever released. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering.
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Magnavox Odyssey - the very first home console, and sold over 300,000 units. Designed by Ralph Baer, it had simple graphics with plastic overlays for use on television screens.
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Gunfight - the first "computer" game. It is an arcade shooter game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado
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Atari released their first home console in 1977; the Atari 2600. It sold over 25 million units, and over 120 million game cartridges, including popular titles such as "Space Invaders", "PAC-MAN", and "Asteroids".
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PAC-MAN is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan as Puck Man. It was created by Japanese video game designer Toru Iwatani.
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Nintendo released home console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the Untied States.
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Super Mario - video game developed and published by Nintendo. The successor to the 1983 arcade game, Mario Bros., it was released in Japan in 1985 for the Famicom.
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Sony became the new competitor in the gaming industry, as they released the very first CD-based system; the Play Station.
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Microsoft introduced their release of the XBOX. It was the first console to include a built in hard drive, which allowed games to save into the console itself
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Nintendo entered the console war with their brand new motion controled console; the Nintendo Wii.
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Microsoft acquires Mojang and its immensely popular indie brick-building game, Minecraft, which Swedish creator Markus Persson.
