Video game history

Video game history

By jakebenjamins

  • Table Tennis like game

    Physicist Willy Higinbotham invents the first "video game" at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. His game, a table tennis-like game, was played on an oscilloscope.

  • Spacewar

    Steve Russell, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), creates Spacewar, the first interactive computer game. It runs on a Digital PDP-1.

  • Brown box

    Baer and team are successful in creating 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.

  • Magnavox Odyssey

    The demonstration of the "Brown Box" led to the licensing of the technology by Magnavox in 1972, resulting in the release of the first official home video game console – Magnavox Odyssey.

  • Atari

    Atari’s PONG arcade machine was so popular in 1973 that Atari decided to market the game as a home console two years later in 1975.

  • Vectrex

  • Atari 5200

  • Sega SG-1000

  • Nintendo Entertainment System

  • Atari 7800

  • Playstation

  • Nintendo 64

  • Sega genesis 3

  • playstation 2

  • Nintendo gamecube

  • Xbox

  • Xbox 360

  • Playstation 3

  • Wii

  • Xbox one

  • Playstation 4