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A.S. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe.
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William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958.
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Steve Russell invented Spacewar! It was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game.
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Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set.
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Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney created the first arcade come
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The first commercial video game console that could be played in the home, the Odyssey was released by Magnavox and designed by Ralph Baer.
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Fairchild released the first programmable home game console later renamed Channel F. Channel F was one of the first electronic systems to use the newly invented microchip
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Japanese company, Namco, and America's Midway released Pac-Man. It first the name was Puck-Man. This was the first video game to have an animated character with its own name.
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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto created Donky Kong, which introduced Mario
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NES is released in the U.S. Gets record sales.
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Japanese gamers first encounter Sony Playstation. Sold 100,000 units on the first day
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Nintendo lauches the first official 64-bit gaming system.
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First console with better graphic capability than the PC, and first console to use DVD technology.
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First system to allow gamers to connect wireless phones to it from the internet.
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First system to use optical minidisks to store games.
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First to completely support HDTV, and to contain hard disk space comparable to a PC.
