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Nim
It debuts at the World's Fair in New York. Edward U. Condon invented a computer that plays a game called "Nim" and the computer won around 90 % of the time. -
The First PC
The Nimrod, built in the United Kingdom by Ferranti for the 1951 Festival of Britain, was an early computer custom-built to play Nim, inspired by the earlier Nimatron. -
OXO
It's a Tic-Tac-Toe Simulator and some consider it te first video game. -
Tennis For Two
In October 1958,Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game to some. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. -
The Fist Computer Game
Spacewar is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Games and T.V Meet
Ralph Bear invents the "brown box" which is a prototype of a game console that allows the player to play on the T.V screen. -
Home Sweet Home
Based on the "Brown Box" the Magnavox Odyssey is in stores and allows games to take the console home for the first time. The system was developed by Ralph Baer, a German-American engineer who created the ping-pong style gameplay that the Odyssey offered. -
Atari 2600
Atari releases its Video Computer System, or the Atari 2600. It’s the precursor to modern consoles, and features classic games like “Space Invaders”, “Donkey Kong”, and “Frogger”. -
Pac-Man
The classic and enormously popular Pac-Man video game came out in Japan on May 21, 1980, and by October of that year it was released in the United States. The yellow, pie-shaped Pac-Man character, who travels around a maze trying to eat dots and avoid four hunting ghosts, quickly became an icon of the 1980s. -
The Worst Game Ever
The dam finally breaks when “E.T.”—a game based on the movie—is released for the Atari 2600. Widely considered the worst game ever made, the company ended up burying thousands of the game cartridges in the New Mexico desert. -
PS1
The PlayStation was released on December 3rd, 1994 in Japan and 9 months later in America. It revolutionized the gaming industry and it would never be the same again. -
The First Online Game
The Apple Bandai Pippin, stylized PiP P!N, is a multimedia technology console, designed by Apple Computer. The console is based on the Apple Pippin platform – a derivative of the Apple Macintosh platform. -
Nintendo 064
The Nintendo 64 (N64) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo. The successor to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, it was released on June 23, 1996, in Japan, on September 29, 1996, in North America, and on March 1, 1997, in Europe and Australia. It was the last major home console to use cartridges as its primary storage format until the Nintendo Switch in 2017 -
GTA
Grand Theft Auto, the first game in the series, was released for Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS in October 1997, ported to the PlayStation in 1998 and the Game Boy Color in 1999. -
Cool Math Games
Cool Math Games is an online web portal that hosts HTML and Flash web browser games targeted at children and young adults. Cool Math Games is operated by Coolmath LLC and first went online in 1997 with the slogan "Where logic & thinking meets fun & games." -
PS2
It was the first successor system for the PlayStation systems. The PS2 has one of the longest continuation dates for a console (March 4, 2000 - January 4, 2013), It also had a built-in DVD and CD player. -
Xbox
The Xbox is a home video game console and the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles manufactured by Microsoft. It was released as Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia, Europe and Japan in 2002. -
GameCube
The GameCube is a home video game console developed and released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in PAL territories in 2002. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 (1996), and predecessor of the Wii (2006). -
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. As the successor to the original Xbox, it is the second console in the Xbox series. It competed with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. -
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. It is Nintendo's fifth major home game console, following the GameCube and is a seventh-generation console alongside Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. -
PS3
The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australia. The PlayStation 3 competed primarily against Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game console. It was the first to allow Blu-ray Discs. -
PS4
Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013 in Europe, South America and Australia, and on February 22, 2014 in Japan -
Niintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch is a hybrid video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. The console itself is a tablet that can either be docked for use as a home console or used as a portable device, making it a hybrid console. -
PS5
The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. This gaming console came out recently & is still hard to get your hands on. Restocks go out in minutes.