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A video game called "Nim" was made in 1940. It debuted at the Worlds Fair in New York. The game was made by Edward U. Condon who invented the computer to play a game against human competitors. -
Atari launches a game called pong which starts the video game mania. Pong is a video game of table tennis and was a 2D game. -
E.T., a game based on a movie, was considered the worst game ever made after its release. The company ended up burying thousands of game cartridges in a desert in New Mexico. The game made people stop playing video games cause they were all made so badly. -
People started looking for other things they can make video games about which brought them to real-world things such as football. Before this period video games were all about fictional characters and places. -
In the 1990's mobile video games were being made. Only a year before the '90s the game boy was released and allowed people to play anywhere. -
Nintendo and Sony were working on a new upgrade to the SNES so they could use c-d based games instead of cartridges. However when Sony wanted to make its own console Nintendo and Sony split up and went their own pathes. -
Sony released the PlayStation which shifted gaming and it brought gaming into a new technical era. -
Microsoft decided they wanted to join the gaming industry and launched the Xbox. They became part of the console wars against sony, PlayStation, and stalwarts. -
Mobile gaming also started taking hold with the release and popularization of social and phone-based games like Farmville and Angry Birds. Later mobile games would start driving massive revenues, like Clash of Clans, Mobile Strike, and Candy Crush. -
Esports exploded in popularity in the 2010s. Players compete in popular games. Just like big athletes they play against one another and have big salaries.