VIDEO GAMES

THE START

• 1889 - Nintendo is founded, and its first ventures aren't PG

1952 THE FIRST COMPUTER GAME

• A.S. Douglas, a British computer science Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge, creates the first documented computer game, Noughts and Crosses -- a tic-tac-toe game that runs on a computer at the university.

THE NEXT THING

• In 1958 Pong was made. it was a big machine built for only two people

1955 - The Cold War hits the computer

• The U.S. military creates a computer-based war simulation game

1962 - Spacewars

• MIT researchers create the first computer-based video game called Spacewars

1964 - Computer programming language arrives

• Hungarian-American mathematician John Kemeny, a former research assistant to Albert Einstein.

1971 - The first commercial arcade game

• Four University of Minnesota students design The Oregon Trail for the teletype in 1973

1972 - Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console

• Magnavox releases Odyssey, the first video game console that plugs into a television, based on Ralph Baer's Brown Box design. The console features 12 games.

1972 - THE RISE OF THE ATARI

• Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn from Atari develop Pong, which was originally assigned to Alcorn as a company training exercise. Instead, the title becomes the first game on Atari.

1978 - SPACE INVADERS ARRIVE

• Space Invaders, released by Taito, becomes an international sensation, first in Japan, and later in the U.S.

1979 - Activision gets into the games

• Four former Atari employees found Activision, the first stand-alone game manufacturer.

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