video game history timeline

  • Bertie the Brain

    Bertie the Brain

    Bertie the Brain is the first video game ever created wit a racade style gameplay. a tic-tac-toe game aganst and ai when u can change the diffacultiy.
  • Tennis for Two, the Brown Box and Early Home Consoles

    Tennis for Two, the Brown Box and Early Home Consoles

    Created with an oscilloscope, tennis for two started up toe pong industry inspiring Ralph Baer to create the first console that could be played at home.
  • P2P1

    P2P1

    the very first computer that uses a screen display
  • Computer Space

    Computer Space

    created in 1971 by Nolan Bushnell, creater of Atari, and Ted Dabney. became the first coin operated arcade video game, derived from a older game call space war that about 2 rockets fighting while trying to avoid gravitational pull.
  • Golden Age of Arcades

    Golden Age of Arcades

    they aint really pop off until later that decade. arcades where known for attracting an not so good customer base. the funder of atari took a chance and tried to change the peoples perspective of arcades by making them go in a more family friendly direction when he opened the first Chuck E Cheese Pizzeria and Games in 1977.
  • Generation 2 Consoles

    Generation 2 Consoles

    secound gen home consols made popular by atari 2600 and Magnavox Odyssey2. went from discrete transistor-based to microprocessor logic. this allowed simple single screen gameplay, and improved gameplay quality
  • Space Invaders

    Space Invaders

    a groundbreaking 1978 arcade game where players control a laser cannon on a horizontal plane to shoot down descending rows of aliens, using protective bunkers as cover.
  • Lunar Lander

    Lunar Lander

    a classic arcade game where the player pilots a spacecraft and attempts to land it safely on a flat surface of the moon.
  • Battlezone

    Battlezone

    a 1980 Atari vector graphics arcade game and a 1998 Activision remake that combined first-person shooting with real-time strategy.
  • Pac Man

    Pac Man

    a classic yellow, spherical video game character known for eating dots in a maze while avoiding ghosts
  • Jumpman ● Moon Patrol

    Jumpman ● Moon Patrol

    which involves piloting a moon buggy to jump over and shoot obstacles, such as craters, mines, and hostile aliens, while traveling across a horizontally scrolling moon surface.
  • Generation 3 Consoles

    Generation 3 Consoles

    The Nintendo Entertainment System really helped the home console industry. improved graphics, audio, d-pad, and multi-directional scrolling gameplay
  • Atari E.T video game

    Atari E.T video game

    Atari high of its success decides to put out a poorly made game in 5 week causing permeant damage to the gaming industry.
  • into gameplay ● Gauntlet

    into gameplay ● Gauntlet

    where players go through dungeons from a top-down, third-person view, fighting monsters and collecting treasure in a dungeon crawl
  • Nintendos Mario

    Nintendos Mario

    after the downfall of gaming when E.T hit the shelves nobody wanted to take a gaming consol, until nintendo gave their consol more features than just games it hit the shelves, with Mario being an absolute hit
  • Period: to

    Generations 4 - 6 Consoles

    SEGA Genesis, Sony Playstation, N64 , the Sony PlayStation 2, and Microsoft Xbox. with improved quality, graphics, acess speeds, more storage and better audio, for more higher quality games.
  • Rise of PC Gaming

    Rise of PC Gaming

    alot of games becoming pc avalible, pc have better graphics, 1 generation ahed of consols.
  • Sony playstation

    Sony playstation

    introduced 3D graphics leading the higher quality graphics and more complex games to be designed and played.
  • the first mobile game

    the first mobile game

    the most famous mobile game is snake created on the Nokia module 6110 in 1997
  • Period: to

    Generation 7 Consoles

    improved on everything from the old gen also adding
    motion detection infrared, and wireless controlers with the invention of Vr allowing u to move freely while using ur body to interact with the enviroment