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William Higinbotham created what is believed to be the first video game ever. It was a simple table tennis game.
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Steve Russell was a student at MIT and is credited to be the creator of Spacewar in 1962.
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Pong was manufactured by Atari, which was released in 1972. Allen Alcorn created it as a training exercise.
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Atari decided to release a home version that was exclusively through sears.
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Its a Japanese video game released by Taito. It was inspired by events going around in that time such as the war and Starr Wars.
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Turo Iwatani created this iconic game and was later licensed to be distributed in the U.S. It was very popular among gamers and took over arcades .
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Miyamoto created a two person player game including the main protagonist from Donkey Kong (Mario) and a brother Luigi.
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Sony and Nintendo had been working on a console the Super Disc. It was never introduced or used by Nintendo so Sony modified and released it as The Playstation.
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The second Playstation was announced in 1999 and became the best selling gaming console of all time, selling over 155 Million Units.
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The U.S. Army released a video game on Xbox to get younger people interested in joining the army.
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The Xbox 360 was developed by Microsoft and was the successor to the original Xbox
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Minecraft was a huge success on mobile and on console. Originally created by Swedish developer Markus Persson.
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Call of Duty Black Ops 3 is the 3rd installment to a franchise "Black Ops". Created by Treyarch this was released in 2015 to the PS4 and Xbox One.
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Fortnite is a free to play video game developed by Epic games and was released in 2017. It has become the most popular free to play video game.