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Bertie the Brain
Bertie the Brain was the first publicly demonstrated game. It was created in 1950 by Josef Kates for the Canadian National Exhibition. It was a program that could challenge players in a simple game of tic- tac-toe. -
Tennis for Two
A physicist named William Higinbotham made a simple game called Tennis for two, similar to Pong, just years before. It was developed in just a couple months and was very popular at his convention, but it was never released publicly. -
Spacewar!
Spacewar was a game released to the public on the west coast of America in 1962. It was a game where you played against someone as two spaceships battling each other. It was inspired by space fiction stories by E. E. Smith. -
Hamurabi
Hamurabi was a text-based strategy game in which the player is the manager of a city, and tries to keep people in their town alive, while buying more acres, growing more bushels to feed your people, and not getting impeached. It was created by Richard Merril, who invented to FOCAL programming language. -
First VR Headset
The first VR headset was made in 1968, by Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull. It was very uncomfortable and had bad graphics. -
Pong
Pong was a game created by Atari, or Allan Alcorn and Nolan Bushnell. It was game like table tennis, and inspired the world. -
Magnavox Odyssey
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first ever video game home console, and was created by Ralph H. Bear. It wasn't well recieved, was forgotten over the years. -
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Golden Age of Arcade Games
The spark of the arcade games, was Space Invaders, made by Taito, then was followed by Asteroids, Galaxian, Defender, Missile Command, Tempest, Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac-Man, and finally Q*bert. The golden age of arcade games ended with the release of Atari's home console. -
Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 was a very inspirational console, being way more popular than the Magnavox Odyssey, families around the world were playing the Atari at home. -
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, was first sold in Japan as the Famicom, but was renamed the NES when it came to America. -
First Mobile Phone Game
Tetris was released on the Hagenuk MT-2000 in 1994, and was followed two years later by Snake on Nokia -
Playstation
The playstation was created after Nintendo and Sony Entertainment collaborated to create a new console. Together they made a different console, but Sony used the idea of that console to create the Playstation after the two companies had a falling out. -
Playstation 2
The Playstation was created in the year 2000, sparking the new century with the best-selling console ever released. -
Nintendo Wii
The Nintendo Wii was a console that first introduced motion control in the controller, this would spark other consoles to do the same. -
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo released the Nintendo Switch, calling it a "hybrid" console, because you could take a screen out of the main console, and take it anywhere.
