JR_Videogame Timeline

  • 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.)