the history of gaming

first ever game pong!!!!!!

Feb 19, 1974

Pong was a simple game created by Nolan bushnell and it had 2 paddles and a ball which bounced off the paddle and if you missed the ball you lost the point.

pacman

May 22, 1980

You play as a yellow man called pacman and you travel around a map and collect as many dots as possible while trying to avoid the ghosts but you can pick up cherries where you can eat the ghosts and they run away from you.

donkey kong

Jul 9, 1981

the original name for donkey kong was dinkey king. The game was a platforming game that had a amd gorilla that took a woman when a man originally called jumpman was trying to help the damsel in distress. The name for jumpman now is Mario.

Castle Wolfenstein

Sep 26, 1981

Castle wolfenstein was the first first-person shooter game where you had to escape a german prison.

Mario Bros

Sep 13, 1985

mario bros introduced a new charcter called luigi and his brother mario progressed through levels to find princess peach and when they get to the castle there is a character called toad who tells them its the wrong castle.

street fighter

Aug 30, 1987

street fighter was a game where 2 players picked a character and fought each other until one of you was defeated.

Sonic

Jul 23, 1991

Sonic was made by Nintendo. You play a blue hedgehog and run through levels at high speeds and the more you progress the harder the levels get. Going through the levels had an effect on you and makes you used to the early levels because you do those a lot more than the harder levels because you will die.

mortal kombat

Oct 8, 1992

Mortal Kombat was a game for 2 players where you [picked a character and fought the other until one died and you could do a thing called fatality where you finished them gruesomely.

Doom

Dec 10, 1993

Doom was a first person shooter game where you fought demons and monsters that were swarming you.

The elder scrolls Arena

Mar 26, 1994

Arena was a game where it was set in a world called tamriel and it was an RPG which had freeroam and you had a story with many other side-quest and you always started as a prisoner.

Pokemon Red and Green

Feb 27, 1996

Pokemon was originally called Pocket monsters where you picked a starter monster where you trained him/her up and catch new monsters which could be3 strong/weak.

Quake

Jun 22, 1996

Quake was a game where you went through levels and through the base to try and fing the boss and kill him whilst killing other people along the way and finding new weapons.

Diablo

Dec 31, 1996

Diablo was a game where you ran around and killed demons and leveled up and fought bosses and eventually Diablo himself.

Halo

Nov 15, 2001

Halo was a game where you took on the role as a spartan called mater chief and killed covenant to get control of the halo ring but being crashed on a planet doesn't help.

Call of Duty

Nov 15, 2005

call of duty was a game with a campaign where you had to follow what was said and you could play splitscreen against each other.