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The First Videogames
In 1940, Edward U. Condon designs a computer that plays the traditional game Nim, where people tried to avoid picking up the last matchstick. The computer won the 90% of the games. In 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann designed a videogame, made by oscilloscope display which challenged people to fire a gun at a target. -
OXO
A. S. Douglass invented OXO (known as noughts and crosses in the UK and as tic-tac-toe in the USA) on Cambridge's EDSAC computer -
Blackjack
At New Mexico's Los Alamos laboratories, programmers created the first blackjack, this popular casino game, on an IBM-701 computer -
First War Game
The U.S. military designed Hutspiel, a game where Reds and Blues ( representing NATO and Soviets commanders) went into war. -
Checkers
Arthur Samuel designed a program written on a IBM-701 computer which can play checkers. After 6 years, this program defeated a checkers master. -
Complete Chess Program
Alex Bernstein wrote the first complete chess program on an IBM-704 computer, this program could evaluate four half-moves ahead. -
Sports Games
A tennis game was created by Willy Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Unfortunately, this game was forgotten, but it was one of the predecessors of Pong. -
Grand Strategy
This simulator of the Cold War conflict was developed by The Raytheon Company, at first it was too complex to understand for people who were unrelated with computers. Finally, this company developed an easier version. -
Spacewar!
MIT student Steve Russell invented this first computer-based video game. Later it spread around the world -
Warning made Videogame
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. Defense Department, created a simulator which shows that the USA will defeat the Soviet Union in a thermonuclear war. -
Football Game
A Darmouth Student programmed the first computer football game. -
Odyssey
Magnavox released this videogame, based on the ideas of Ralph Baer, the first home interactive videogame. -
Pong
Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn of Atari developed an arcade tennis game. This was the birth of a legendary videogame. -
Doom
Doom, Maze Wars was a first-person shooter into labyrinth made from wire-frame graphics. -
Space Invader
There were 60,000 machines in the USA of this videogame where people tried to stop an alien attack. -
Pacman
Toru Iwatani, inspired by a missing pizza piece, designed the first Pacman ever in the company Namco. This one was for Atari machines. -
The Origins of Mario
On Donkey Kong's game was a character who for that moment was unknown. Later, Shigeru Miyamoto made this character well-known as Mario. -
Tetris
Invented by a mathematician, a simple but addictive videogame. Nintendo company brought it to every version of game boys. -
The Legend of Zelda
One of the bests Roleplay games, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, with lots of maps to give an evolved game to users. -
Gameboy
Probably the most mythical console ever, the first people had. Saled by Nintendo's Company. It still remain till this days. -
Solitaire
This famous Windows videogame, was introduced for Windows 3.0. Due to its simplicity, this game is the most played by people who don't have a console. -
The Well-Known Hedgehog
For Sega, they needed a protagonist for its videogame Genesis, so they introduced a little blue guy who has a blazing speed and cleverness -
Revolusionary Bloody Videogame
Mortal Kombat is an extremely violent videogame, full of blood. Firstly, it was criticated because of that, but till today, there are 11 Mortal Kombats. -
Play Station
The first console to play videogames was the Play Station 1, released by Sony, it was very cheap and every body could afford it. -
The Sims
This simulation of the day-to-day life the people have, it isn't the first, but it is the most saled. Nowadays, it exist the Sims 4 -
X Box
Microsoft entered to the videogame market with X Box, with exclusive games as Halo. It had advanced graphics than Play Station, so people prefered it more. -
Nintendo DS
There were 2 companys that were fighting in the videogame market, but Nintendo didn't last. They introduce the Nintendo DS, a portable console, so people could take it wherever they want. It was the revolucionary console of the moment. -
X Box 360
Microsoft released the X Box 360 with better graphics than the first one and new exclusive games such as Alan Wake. -
Nintendo Wii
With its portable console, Nintendo wanted to make videogames more active to attract people who didn't like videogames, so they made the Wii, in the games it has, it is required to move. Most of its games are about sports. -
Minecraft
Everybody in the world know about Minecraft, this game full of cubes, despite of it haters, is the most popular ever and till this days, people play it and make lots different things. Guaranteed you won't get bored of it. -
The New-Gen Consoles
Play Station 4 and X Box One, both are the consoles that brought us a better experience with their new graphic, Bluetooth conection and more. They are still alive and everybody, who can afford it, has one of them. -
Nintendo Switch
This console is an hybrith, so you can play it comfortable in your house or you can use it while you are waiting for a doctor appointment.
