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Physicist William Hinginbotham created the first video game. It was very simple tennis game
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In 1961 Steve Russell created Spacewar
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In 1970 Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney attempted to create an arcade version of Ralph Baer's Space war.
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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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The first game created by Atari is pong and was released with production of 150,000 units.
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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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Playable on PC, Russian programmer Alex Pajinov creates the popular game Tetris
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Nintendo releases the handheld Game Boy
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released in the U.S. by Nintendo for $249.95 called Super NES
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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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Sony's PlayStation 2 launches and sells out by early morning.
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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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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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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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Sony and Microsoft takes the motion control system idea from Nintendo and apply them to their own consoles
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Both Sony (PlayStation 4) and Microsoft (XBox One) release new gaming platforms this year.
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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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In September August 3, they're coming out with a new Nintendo game called Wario Ware Gold.
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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
