electronic games timeline

  • first game called "nim"

    first game called "nim"
    players try to not pick the last match stick, but the machine wins 90% of the time.
  • OXO

    OXO
    a tick taco to game
  • Hutspiel

    U.S. military designs a red vs blue type wargame to represent NATO vs soviets
  • Mouse in the maze

    players draw a maze with a light pen and the mouse has to navigate through it
  • spacewar!

    first computer game
  • first computer football game

    was created because of Princeton's defeat against Dartmouth
  • minecraft

    very popular brick building indie game
  • animal crossing

    very popular with millions of downloads
  • hades

    a role-playing game with a very good story line and monster hunting and won a hugo award
  • wordle

    five letter guessing game