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1958
Physicist William Hinginbotham created the first video game. It was very simple tennis game
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1961
In 1961 Steve Russell created Spacewar
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1970
In 1970 Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney attempted to create an arcade version of Ralph Baer's Space war.
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Pong/ Magnavox Vs. Atari
Atari's electronic table tennis game "Pong" became a bonafide craze- and Ralph Baer, inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey gaming console, sought legal action against Atari. Baer claimed that Atari, who was co-founder had copied Magnavox's version of electric ping pong.
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1975
The first game created by Atari is pong and was released with production of 150,000 units.
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1983
Nintendo created their first console called the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in 1983 in Japan and 1986 in the U.S.
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1985
Playable on PC, Russian programmer Alex Pajinov creates the popular game Tetris
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1989
Nintendo releases the handheld Game Boy
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1991
released in the U.S. by Nintendo for $249.95 called Super NES
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1995
Sony brings the PLayStation to the U.S. and sells for $299. It becomes the most popular game console in 1997 with 20 million units sold.
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2000
Sony's PlayStation 2 launches and sells out by early morning.
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Grand Theft Auto/ Strickland Vs. Sony
Jack Thompson filed a lawsuit against Sony Corporation of America for the wrongful deaths of police officers. Grand Theft Auto was to blame for the deaths because Moore was trying to recreate scenes from the controversial video game
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Grand Theft Auto Video Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgrMJa-Hedw
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2006
Nintendo releases the Wii, a gaming system that lets gamers use the controller in different ways, such as swinging it like a tennis racket, holding and tilting it, etc.
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2008
Grand Theft Auto 4 breaks sales records its first week after gamers bought more than 6 million copies, and Wii fit is launched
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2010
Sony and Microsoft takes the motion control system idea from Nintendo and apply them to their own consoles
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2013
Both Sony (PlayStation 4) and Microsoft (XBox One) release new gaming platforms this year.
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2016
Players hunt for virtual creatures like Pikachu and Horsea in the real world with Niantic's free-to-play hit Pokemon Go.
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2018
In September August 3, they're coming out with a new Nintendo game called Wario Ware Gold.
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Video Game Ratings
Most of these systems are associated with or sponsored by government or a local motion picture rating system. They use these systems to voluntarily restrict sales of certain video games by stores. Also used as the basis for laws that cover the sales of video games to minors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_content_rating_system
