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In October 1958, physicist William Higinbotham created the first game similar to pong, although this is the first game it wasn't in arcades. At this time arcades didn't exist so only a select few were able to see this game.
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SPACEWAR! assumed to be the first computer game. developed 1962 at MIT. designed and programmed by Steve Russell .
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This is the first boom of video games that was ended by the game ET
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In 1971 the first commercial video game was made.The name of the game, computer space by nutting associates. this was the start of the video game boom
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In 1971 along with the first game the first arcade came out with computer space. and many more arcades came out to support the new game. It was the start of the boom of arcades.
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Pong is considered the first commercially successful video game. This really got video games popular. Pong was an immediate hit and several companies began producing games similar to pong
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This was the cash of video games in the U.S. It started with the ET game Atari released in 1983 being named the worst game ever. people loose interest of video games making a recession loosing around 100 million by 1985.
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in 1985 with the video games was on the verge of imploding. a Japan company called Nintendo released their entertainment system called NES. It came with the game Super Mario Bros that became a household phenomenon which saved the video game industry
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the Japanese company made the system Sega genesis. along with the console the game sonic came out ant that became a hit in 1989. The Nes and genesis saved the video game industry
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Sony made the first playstation in 1995. this is the start of the modern companies that make consoles. later competes with Microsofts xbox
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in 2001 the xbox was launched.This was the first American made console since Atari in the mid 90's. first console to have a built in hard drive as well