Alejandro Video Game Timeline

  • Shigeru Miyamoto

    Shigeru Miyamoto
    Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002.
  • Alexey Pajitnov

    Alexey Pajitnov
    Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian programmer and game designer, is best known for creating Tetris, one of the most recognizable and celebrated video games ever
  • William Ralph Wrigh

    William Ralph Wrigh
    William Ralph Wright is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts. In April 2009, he left EA to run Stupid Fun Club Camp, an entertainment think tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders.
  • Hironobu Sakaguchi

    Hironobu Sakaguchi
    Hironobu Sakaguchi is a Japanese game designer, director, producer, and writer. Originally working for Square from 1983 to 2003, he departed the company and founded independent studio Mistwalker in 2004. He is known as the creator of the Final Fantasy franchise, in addition to other titles during his time at Square.
  • Gabe Logan Newell

    Gabe Logan Newell
    Gabe Logan Newell, also known by his nickname Gaben, is an American businessman who is the president and co-founder of the video game company Valve Corporation. Newell was born in Colorado and grew up in Davis, California. HE OWNS STEAM
  • Hideo Kojima

    Hideo Kojima
    Hideo Kojima is a Japanese video game designer. He is regarded as an auteur of video games. He developed a strong passion for film and literature during his childhood and adolescence. He started making games in 1986.
  • Edward "Ed" Boon

    Edward "Ed" Boon
    Edward "Ed" Boon is an American video game programmer, voice actor, and director. Boon was employed for over 15 years at Midway Games. Since 2011, he has worked for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for one of its Subsidiaries, NetherRealm Studios. His most notable game is the Mortal Kombat series.
  • Yuji Naka,

    Yuji Naka,
    Yuji Naka, credited in some games as YU2, is a former Japanese video game programmer, designer and producer. He is the co-creator of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and was the president of Sonic Team at Sega until his departure in 2006.
  • Alfonso John Romero

    Alfonso John Romero
    Alfonso John Romero is an American director, designer, programmer and developer in the video game industry. He is a co-founder of id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Hexen and Quake.
  • Masahiro Sakurai

    Masahiro Sakurai
    Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012
  • Magnavox Odyssey

    Magnavox Odyssey
    The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console released, all the way back in 1972. This was the start of the video game console industry.
  • Pong

    Pong
    Pong is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released on 29 November 1972.
  • PacMan

    PacMan
    Pac-Man, originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America.
  • Nintendo Entertainment System

    Nintendo Entertainment System
    Nintendo's first console.
    Helped revive the decline in video game interest in the 80s
  • Tetris

    Tetris
    Tetris is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. It has been published by several companies on more than 65 platforms, setting a Guinness world record for the most ported game.
  • Nintendo Game Boy

    Nintendo Game Boy
    The Game Boy was revolutionary for it's ability to be used anywhere and it's better price compared to other at home consoles.
  • Doom

    Doom
    Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software. Released on December 10, 1993, for DOS, it is the first installment in the Doom franchise. The player assumes the role of a space marine, later unofficially referred to as Doomguy, fighting through hordes of undead humans and invading demons
  • Super Mario 64

    Super Mario 64
    Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan and North America in 1996 and PAL regions in 1997
  • Nintendo 64

    Nintendo 64
    Nintendo 64 was the beginning of Nintendo's 3d games. Notably, Super Mario 64.
  • Final Fantasy VII

    Final Fantasy VII
    Final Fantasy VII is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation console and the seventh main installment in the Final Fantasy series.
  • Ocarina of time

    Ocarina of time
    The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a 1998 action-adventure game by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan and North America in November 1998 and in PAL regions the following month. The game is the first in The Legend of Zelda series with 3D graphics.
  • GameCube

    GameCube
    The GameCube was Nintendo's successor to the Nintendo 64 and was the first Nintendo console to switch from game cartages to disk(bad change).
  • Playstation 2

    Playstation 2
    The PlayStation 2 is the most bought console at 160 million sales
  • Nintendo Wii

    Nintendo Wii
    The Nintendo Wii was unique in the way of the long controller and tracking witch lead to fun games like Wii sports
  • Minecraft

    Minecraft
    Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios. Originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java programming language, the first public test build was released on 17 May 2009
  • Dark Souls

    Dark Souls
    Dark Souls is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Namco Bandai Games. A spiritual successor to FromSoftware's Demon's Souls, the game is the first in the Dark Souls series
  • Wii U

    Wii U
    The successor of the Nintendo Wii. This was also unique with the gamepad that had a screen on it.
  • GTA V

    GTA V
    Grand Theft Auto V is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, following 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV, and the fifteenth instalment overall.
  • Nintendo switch

    Nintendo switch
    The Nintendo switch is one of the best selling consoles due to it's availability.
  • Ps5

    Ps5
    The Ps5 is, at the moment, one of the best consoles to buy now for it's large variety of games and high specs