1958: tennis for two made by willy higinbotham was played on a oscilloscope and was made in new york.
1961 steve russel made spacewar, this was the first interactive computer game, this runs on a digital PDP-1 mainframe computer
1966 ralph baer gets support from a company to help him look into video games interaction
1967 they are then succesfull and make 2 interactive games, one is a chase game and one is a tennis game.
1970 magnavox licences baers game nolan bushnell ted dabney
1971 computer space bacame the first ever arcade video game.
1972, Magnavox’s Odyssey made the first home video game system on the 24th may. atari also make their first game named ‘pong’.
1975 sears roebuck helps to release pong to the public, this was the hotest selling christmas present after selling ove 150,000 units.
1976 coleco releases its first video game name telstar, this is there first home video game.
1977 atari introduces its first cartradge based video game. called video computer system which then becomes known atari 2600
1978 the trackball is introduced into video games as the controler in atari’s game ‘football’, also midway introduces space invaders into the arcade
1979 atari develop a handheld console that displays holograms. this is called "cosmos" but it was never released. asteroids was the first game to allow people with high scores to enter three character initial onto the leaerboards.
1980 activition become the third party video game vendor.
The company is created by Atari programmers who want to receive individual credit for creating Atari's video games. battlezone is the first ever 3D game ever created. 300,000 units of pac-man were sold worldwide.
1981 Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel found the first video-game magazine, Electronic games.
1982 Atari releases the Atari 5200 to compete with Coleco's Colecovision.
1983 The Commodore 64 is introduced. It is the most powerful video-game console to date and the least expensive
1985 The popular game tetris is developed by russian programmer Alex Pajitnov. It is played on a PC.
1986 Atari releases the Atari 7800 to stay competitive in the market
1989 Nintendo releases the handheld Game Boy. Atari tries to enter the handheld market with the Lynx, a color handheld console.
1993 Atari releases the Jaguar, attempting to be the first 64-bit console on the market. The product actually runs two 32-bit processors.
1994 In Japan, the Sega Saturn and the Sony PlayStation make their debut.
1995 Sony brings the PlayStation to the U.S. Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 in Japan.
1996 Arcades focus on bringing in more "ride-and-video" games like skiing, snowboarding, and Jet Skiing, as their popularity has surpassed the popularity of shooting and fighting games.
1997 PlayStation is considered by many in the industry as most popular game console as the 20 millionth unit is sold. Arizona attempts to restrict the distribution of violent video games by making it illegal to display or distribute violent material to minors.
1998 Sega introduces the Dreamcast in Japan.
1999 Billy Mitchell attains a score of 3,333,360 in the game Pac-Man. This is the highest possible score a player can get.
2000 Sony's PlayStation 2 launches in the U.S the sims is released, and quickly becomes a hit. It eventually (in 2002) surpasses Myst as the best-selling PC game ever.
2001 Sega announces that it will no longer manufacture hardware. Nintendo releases the GameBoy Advance, a portable gaming system.
2004 Nintendo releases the Nintendo DS, a portable system with two screens, one of which can be used as a touch screen.
2005 Sony releases the PSP, a portable system with a large, high-resolution display. Microsoft unveils the XBox 360, a console system to be released in November 2005. Sony and Nintendo's competing console systems are planned for release in 2006.
2006
Nintendo releases the Wii, a gaming system that lets gamers use the controller in revolutionary ways, such as swinging it like a tennis racket, holding and tilting it like a steering wheel. Sony also debuts the Playstation 3.
2007 Nintendo releases Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. It continues the adventures of Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach as they face their old foe Bowser.
2008 Grand Theft Auto 4 breaks sales records its first week after gamers bought more than 6 million copies.
2009 With over 40 million units sold, Nintendo's Wii Sports becomes the best-selling video game of all time. The previous record holder was another Nintendo game: Super Mario Bros.
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