Video Game History Timeline

Gerald Lawson

Dec 1, 1940

Gunpei Yokoi

Sep 10, 1941

Nolan Bushnell

Feb 5, 1943

Shigeru Miyamoto

Nov 16, 1952

November 16, 1952

Will Wright

1960

Gabe Newell

Nov 3, 1962

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Nov 25, 1962

Satoshi Tajiri

Sep 28, 1965

John Romero

Oct 28, 1967

Masahiro Sakurai

Aug 3, 1970

Magnavox Odyssey

1972

Pong

1972

Trinity

1977

Atari 2600

Sep 11, 1977

Tetris

1984

Super Mario Bros

1985

NES

Oct 18, 1985

Game Boy

Apr 21, 1989

Wolfenstein 3D

1992

Doom

1993

PlayStation

Dec 3, 1994

Half-Life

1998

Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow

1998

LOZ: Ocarina of Time

Nov 21, 1998

GTA

2001

Xbox 360

Nov 22, 2005

Wii

Nov 19, 2006

Minecraft

2009

Nintendo Switch

Mar 3, 2017