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The first video game
The First ever video game was created by William Higinbotham, a Physicist which was a tennis sort of game at its very simplest by the name of "Pong" -
First arcade game
In 1971 the first coin operated machine was invented running the original pong game, later inspiring the Atari game system. -
Atari is Published
The first Iconic game company is set out to the world, one of the most recognized game companies and many inspiration to most future games -
The First game console
The Oddesy 300 was released by Magnovox becoming the first successful game console to hit main stream media at the fime. -
Atari 2600 is relased
The Iconic Atari 2600 is released to the public being successful until its demise in later years -
Space Invaders is relased
The Iconic "Space Invaders" is released to the public, establishing itself as one of the best arcade games ever. -
SEGA is established as a video game company
After years of being a company that sold gambling machines, SEGA wanted to become a part of the video game golden era by competing with the likes of Atari, Nintendo, and other big name companies. -
Nintendo is established as a video game company
After being a card game company since 1889, Nintendo has officially established itself as a major video game company an being its expansion into the U.S and the world -
Pac-Man is released
The Iconic Arcade game "Pac-Man" is released to the public -
Donkey Kong is Released
Nintendo released the their first successful coin machine "Donkey Kong" this quickly became the hottest selling coin machine at the time.This would later give birth to the most famous video game character of all time. -
NES Nintendo Entertainment System is released in Japan
Nintendo's first game console is released in Japan becoming its first home game system -
Atari "E.T" is buried
Many unsold Atari games where Massley buried in New Mexico due to its failure to live up to its hype. -
Super Mario Release
The worlds most successful video game character made his day view in his first game for the Super Mario Bros. After making his apperace on Donkey Kong Mario got his own game. -
NES is released in the U.S
The Nintendo Entertainment system is now available to the U.S and the rest of the world. -
SEGA Genesis
The Iconic SEGA Genesis was released competing with the likes of other big name consoles such as the Super Nintendo and others -
Game Boy is relased
The famous game console was released paving the way for future portable games. -
Release of the Super Nintendo
The Super Nintendo is released making it Nintendo first console. -
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The Atari Jaguar, The start of the end.
This is the last game console that Atari would release for the public as they plummeted into a finical debt, this however wouldn't be the end of Atari as they switched to a game only company which is making it come back today. -
The PlayStation 1
The company Sony gave their contribution to the world of gaming with the start of the next gen consoles, The PlayStation was now avilable in the U.S and it was a smashing hit -
Pokemon
"Pocket monsters" was released in Japan becoming one Nintendo's most successful franchises still getting sequels to this day -
PlayStation 2
With the popular and extremely successful PlayStation 1, the squeal to the gaming system became legendary blowing out any other gaming system at the time making its only competition with Xbox. -
XBOX
Microsoft now in the gaming business decided to release it day view console, the Xbox. This is one of the consoles that set another next gen movement as it would set the bench mark for future gamin alike. This would make Sony and Microsoft dominate the gaming industry for many years to come. -
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 was released in the U.S, the new graphics and other high level technology, setting the new bench mark for the next gen of gaming. -
PlayStation 3
The PlayStation 3 was released after the extremely successful PlayStation 2, once again it was dominating the shelf's and making the newest installment of the next gen, having its 2 only competitors being The Xbox 360 and the Wii. -
The Wii
Nintendo made it come back in console gaming by releasing the Nintendo Wii, it was very successful because of its new concept in gaming and even competed with Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation 3 -
Minecraft
One of the worlds most popular games was released to the world, The open world game system is the highest grossing game in the world and recided as one of the most popular games in today's world. -
Wii U
Nintendo released its longingly awaited and newest installment of the Wii, the Wii U, however it was not as good as they thought it would be with the original Wii selling more and having better success #PCmasterrace. -
XBOX one
In the most recent installment of the next gen of gaming, the first edition of the new age is the Xbox one, it was extremely successful when it hit the shelf's and it still sells strong to this day. -
PlayStation 4
The most recent installment of the next gen gaming the play station 4 was released and blew away once again in sales and other gaming categorizes. -
Atari "E.T" is unearthed
After years of being underground, the Atari game "E.T" is unearthed from being underground, it had been there since 1983.
