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Videogames History

  • OXO or three in a row

    OXO or three in a row
    OXO is a video game developed by British professor Alexander S. Douglas in 1952. It was the first game ever created.
  • Magnavox Oddysey

    Magnavox Oddysey
    Magnavox Odyssey is the first video game console in history. Developed by Ralph Baer, ​​it was marketed by the Philips subsidiary in the United States and launched in American stores in September 1972, becoming a bestseller in a very short time.
  • Pong

    Pong
    Pong or Tele-Pong is a first-generation console video game published by Atari, created by Nolan Bushnell and released on November 29, 1972.
  • Atari Home Pong

    Atari Home Pong
    Pong is a console created by Atari in 1975, and the second video game console in history. It was the home version of the PONG arcade also released by Atari a few years earlier. It did not carry cartridges, but had only one game, Pong.
  • Color Tv game racing,

    Color Tv game racing,
    Color TV-Game was Nintendo's first home video game console and was marketed exclusively in Japan. This console included a series of video games stored in its internal memory since interchangeable cartridges did not yet exist.
  • Space Invaders

    Space Invaders
    Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Toshihiro Nishikado2 and released in 1978.
  • Intellivision

    Intellivision
    Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979. Development of the machine began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600.
  • Pac-Man

    Pac-Man
    Pac Man is an arcade video game created by video game designer Toru Iwatani of the Namco company,3 and distributed by Midway Games to the American market in the early 1980s.
  • Donkey Kong

    Donkey Kong
    Donkey Kong is a fictional character designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. He is a gorilla and appears in video games belonging to the Donkey Kong and Mario video game franchises. Due to its popularity, it has appeared in many video games. Donkey Kong was Mario's first enemy in the video game of the same name, the 1981 Nintendo arcade game Donkey Kong.
  • ColecoVision

    ColecoVision
    Coleco returned to the video game console market in 1982 with the launch of the ColecoVision. The system was very popular, and Coleco increased its commitment to video games by introducing two lines of cartridges, one for the Atari 2600 and another for the Mattel Intellivision. It also launched the Coleco Gemini, a clone of the Atari 2600.
  • Super Mario Bros

    Super Mario Bros
    Super Mario Bros is a platform video game developed and published in 1985 by Nintendo for the Famicom in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America. It is the successor to the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros.
  • Mario Bros

    Mario Bros
    Mario Bros is an arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo in 1983. It was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo's chief engineer.