Games

The History of Gaming

  • The First Game is Created

    The first game created was Knotts and Crosses this tic tac toe type of game was made by a man named A. S. Dougles at Cambridge University the date that this was actually made is unknown
  • The Second Game is Made

    Scientist William A. Higginbotham made the game Tennis for Two the first american game made the date of creation is unknown
  • Space War !

    Space War !
    MIT's Steven Russell makes the game Space War! out of a PDP-1 computer (date is unknown)
  • Games are Patented

    Raplh H. Baer applies for a U. S patent for televistion gameing and traning apparatus but later sells it to Magnavox who sues other home console makers for money (date is unknown)
  • First Arcade Type Game

    First Arcade Type Game
    Noland Bushell makes Computer Space the fist coin opperated arcade game
  • The Oddessy is Made

    The Oddessy is Made
    Magnavox created the Oddesy with the game ping-pong
  • The Fairchild

    the Fiarchild or channel f was one of the first consols to use micro chips
  • atari 2600

    atari 2600
    The Atari 2600is the first system made by atari
  • intelavision

    intelavision
    back then when Atari was the dominate in the xgame industry Mattel challenged their dominance by making intelavision or inteligent televison
  • Nintendo Entertanment System (NES)

    Nintendo Entertanment System (NES)
    the NES or nintendo enteranment system was an 8 bit system do to its price of $800 dollars at the time this was later voted as the best consol of all time by IGN
  • Gameboy the First Portable Game Divice

    Gameboy the First Portable Game Divice
    as games advanced nintendo decided to take it to the next level with portablety this was the first portable console
  • The Neo-Geo

    The Neo-Geo
    this console used a 24 bit system with extreamly detailed grafics in 2-D
  • the Super NES

    the Super NES
    the Super NES was one of the best 16 bit game consoles of its time with some of the best games
  • playstation

    playstation
    this system was the first to start the 32 bit era with games in 3-D
  • Nintendo 64

    Nintendo 64
    this system used cartriges which made loading much faster then CD roms
  • playstation 2

    playstation 2
    this system was the first to have a 128 bit system with the ability to play older games and play dvds
  • xbox

    xbox
    microsoft made the xbox useing PC tecnology making games run much smother then other 128 bit consoles
  • gameboy advaced

    gameboy advaced
    this portable system just had a small update that used LEDs so it could show over 32,000 colors
  • nintendo ds

    nintendo ds
    its someting with two screens and one is a touch screen
  • the psp (playstation portable)

    the psp (playstation portable)
    its like a PDA but the last two letters are different but it also has good grafics
  • playstation 3

    playstation 3
    its like the psp but a home console but IT GOT HAKED!!!!!
  • The Wii

    The Wii
    motion control to ply and crappy games
  • xbox 360

    xbox 360
    xbox live was added and better graphics and it didnt get haked