Video Games timeline
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Nintendo Founded
Nintendo Company Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by... Read more
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OXO, the First Video Game Using a Graphical Display
OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) is a tic-tac-toe computer game made for the EDSAC computer in 1952. It was written by Alexander S. Douglas... Read more
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Tennis for Two, the "First Video Game"
Tennis for Two was a game developed in 1958 on an analog computer, which simulates a game of tennis or ping pong on an oscilloscope. Created by... Read more
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The First Version of Spacewar! is Released
Steve "Slug" Russell, Martin "Shag" Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen of the fictitious "Hingham Institute" conceived of the game in 1961, with the intent... Read more
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The First Coin-Operated Video Game, Galaxy Game, is Released
The Galaxy Game is the earliest known coin-operated computer or video game. It was installed at the Tresidder Union at Stanford University in... Read more
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Computer Space, First Commercially Sold Coin-Operated Video Game
Computer Space is a video arcade game released in November 1971 by Nutting Associates. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who would both... Read more
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Atari Releases Pong Arcade
Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. The aim... Read more
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The Magnavox Odyssey, First Video Game Console
The Magnavox Odyssey is the world's first home video game console. It was first demonstrated in May, 24th, 1972 and released that fall, predating... Read more
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Empire is Written for the PLATO System
In reviewing how other early game designers describe their firsts, the innovations they initiated, I felt it important to keep my descriptions... Read more
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Moria is Developed for the PLATO system
Moria is a dungeon crawl style computer role-playing game first developed for the PLATO system around 1975, with copyright dates listed as 1978 and... Read more
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Atari Releases Breakout in the Arcade
Breakout is an arcade game developed by Atari, Inc and introduced on May 13, 1976. It was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, and... Read more
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First Version of Colossal Cave Adventure
Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) was the first computer adventure game. It was originally designed by... Read more
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Coleco Releases its Telstar Console
The Telstar is a series of video game consoles produced by Coleco from 1976 to 1978. Starting with Telstar Pong clone based on General Instrument's... Read more
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Atari 2600 Released in North America
The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in October 1977. It is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and... Read more
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Space Invaders is Released
Space Invaders (スペースインベーダー, Supēsu Inbēdā?) is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally... Read more
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Activision is Founded as the First Third Party Video Game Developer
Before the formation of Activision, software for video game consoles were published exclusively by makers of the systems for which the games were... Read more
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Intellivision Video Game Console Released
The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979. Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the... Read more
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Atari Releases Asteroids
Asteroids is a video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade... Read more
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Nintendo Releases 'Silver', the First Game & Watch
Game & Watch (ゲーム＆ウオッチ, Gēmu ando Wocchi, or G&W) is a line of handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from 1980 to 1991. Created by game... Read more
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Rogue is Included in the Berkeley Standard Distribution UNIX Distritbution 4.2
A student at University of Berkeley, called Ken Arnold, had designed a library of C functions which allowed programs to do cursor addressing, which... Read more
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Namco Releases Pac-Man
Pac-Man (パックマン, Pakkuman) is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the U.S. by Midway, first released in Japan on May... Read more
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Zork I Released
Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I, later known as Zork I, is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling,... Read more
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PlayCable, First 'Online' Video Game Content Provider
Talk about innovation! In 1981, Mattel finalized a deal to deliver Intellivision games to homes across the nation via existing cable TV networks.... Read more
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Nintendo Releases Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong (ドンキーコング, Donkī Kongu) is an arcade game developed by Nintendo, released in 1981. It is an early example of the platform genre, as the... Read more
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Midway Releases Ms. Pac-Man as an Unauthorized Sequel
Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game produced by Midway as an unauthorized sequel to Pac-Man. It was released in North America in 1981 and became... Read more