A Time Line of Video Game Histroy

1958 - "Ping pong" was created, it was tennis on an oscilloscope screen by William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

1961 - Development of Spacewar.

1972 - The first videogame for TV was launched, called Odyssey.

1972 - Nolan Bushnell invents the Atari to and produces the famous Pong, a simple tennis game for arcades.

1974 - Atari produce a home version of Pong.

1978 - Space Invaders is released by Tatio, and two micro computers are released for commercial sale - the Commodore PET and the Atari.

1980 - Pacman is released in Japan, to be played on a micro home

computer.

1983 - Nintendo release their first computer, and Mario is released at the same time.

1985 - Nintendo release the NES.

1989 - First hand held machine from Nintendo, called "Game Boy".

1989 - Sega releases the Sega Genesis.

1991 - Sonic is produced by Sega in response to Nintendo's Mario.

1994 - Sony releases the Playstation in Japan.

1996 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64

1999 - Dreamcast comes out.