History of videogames

By MuhammadSaddal

  • Before videogames

    Before video games arcades were filled with pinball machines!
    Pinball machines have been around since the 1930s
    During this time gambling was illegal, manufacturers had to make it clear that playing a pinball machine was not gambling

  • First Videogame

    1952, British professor A.S. Douglas created OXO, also known as tic-tac-toe, as part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Cambridge.
  • Period: to

    History of videogames

  • First videogame in arcade

    In 1970 the first videogame was introduced to an arcade

  • Atari Relese

  • Video game crash

  • Sega releases their first video game console

  • Nintendo releases the 16-bit Super NES

  • Sega Saturn System, the first 32-bit console, played CDs

  • Sony released the Playstation

  • Nintendo 64, the first 64-bit console still played cartridges

  • Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox were released

  • Period: to

    WiiU, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 were released.

  • Nintendo Switch released

  • New generation for Xbox and Sony