video games

  • Pong

    Pong was the fist ever video game to come out and it was a hit. Just for being simple pixels everyone loved it. It was something new.
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    development of video games

  • Video gaming was becoming popular

    Video gaming did not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when video arcade games and gaming consoles using joysticks, buttons, and other controllers, along with graphics on computer screens and home computer games were introduced to the general public.
  • Arcade games

    The video game arcade had its roots in 1971, when Computer Space, the first commercially sold, coin-operated video game, was designed by Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Though considered a failure at the time, the game was revolutionary, and formed the foundations of a new industry.
  • Atari

    Atari became the first gaming company to really set the benchmark for a large-scale gaming community
  • brown box

    brown box was the first console. It is amazing back then that are first console was handheld. Other Notable consoles of the first generation include the Odyssey series, the Atari Home Pong, the Coleco Telstar
  • Space Invaders Championship

    The Space Invaders Championship held by Atari in 1980 was the earliest large scale video game competition, attracting more than 10,000 participants across the United States, establishing competitive gaming as a mainstream hobby.
  • PAC-Man

    PAC-Man[a] is a maze arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1980. The original Japanese title of Puck Man was changed to PAC-Man for international releases. I wanted to add this game because it was a popular game and my dad played it
  • Platstation

    PlayStation had released there first console in 1994 and still to today we have PlayStation consoles.
  • Xbox x series

    This is the newest gaming system and this run 4k resultion and 1080p. Which is a huge change from the first game.