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First video game made
The first video game to be made was 2 player tennis. similar to pong two player tennis was a good 10 years before it came out. it was made by Physicist William Higinbotham and it all lead to the era of vidiogames -
Spacewar!
a space combat game made by Steve Russell. This is one of the first action games. it was not that popular. i've never heard of it. -
Oregon Trail
A very old computer game that nearly everyone wanted to play. the thing was that it costed $1000. kids would go to libraries to play the game on the computer -
PONG
The first really publicized video game. it became popular all over. It wasn't what you normally think of. it was an arcade cabinet not a disc on a console, those came out long after. -
PAC-MAN
The Japanese video game by namco but the main developer was Toru Iwatani. it eventually became one of the most known video games on earth. it also has a female counterpart called ms.pac-man -
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Nintendo
They release donkey kong in 81. The NES came out in 1985. The legend of zelda came out in 1987. 1989 the gameboy -
Solitaire
Microsoft included a game called solitaire in windows 3.0. it would commonly be used to laze out at work. millions of users would play just to make the day pass quicker. -
Play station
sony has entered the frey. they released the playstation in america for $100. yeah playstation -
steam
is it gettin hot in here. steam is released by valve where people could buy and publish video games. i even use it now -
WoW becomes a very popular mmo
World of warcraft reaches 10 million subscribers since it came out in 2004. This became the beginning of a new era of mmos (massively multiplayer online) -
Minecraft
Everyone knows minecraft. it came out in 2010 and made a new way to be creative. it was a game made of blocks that you would use to make items that help you survive or build a random sculpture. -
Pokemon go
nintendo released pokemon go where you could go around and catch pokemon in the real world. it used a technology called augmented reality(a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.)