In 1972, the original arcade-style Pong was released by Atari. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell is often regarded as the Godfather of Modern Gaming with the release of the Atari 2600 in 1977, which outside of Pong, was the first in-home video game console. Atari ruled the market until the video game crash of 1983 - which many attribute to Atari’s very rushed, and horrible game: ET. In fact, it was so bad that they buried the unsold stock of the game in a landfill, which was rediscovered not too long ago. This was the first game made strictly for entertainment purposes and it was a hit at the laboratory’s annual public show with Higinbotham stating that he couldn’t get high schoolers away from the thing – they were obsessed (teens will be teens!). 1889 1960 1972 1981 1958 1962 1975 1980 1983 NINTENDO IS FOUNDED AND PRODUCED PLAYING CARDS SEGA IS FOUNDED SPACE INVADERS IS RELEASED IN JAPAN ODYSSEY IS THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE HOME VIDEO FOR TV THE ORIGINAL ARCADE-STYLE PONG IS RELEASED MARIO’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN DONKEY KONG NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM – NES RELEASED IN JAPAN TENNIS FOR TWO IS RELEASED SPACEWAR! IS RELEASED ATARI UNVEILED A PLAY-AT-HOME VERSION OF PONG CALLED “HOME PONG“ PAC-MAN IS RELEASED THE VIDEO GAME CRASH 1985 SUPER MARIO BROS. IS RELEASED TETRIS IS RELEASED NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM – NES RELEASED IN NORTH AMERICA 1991 1996 1989 1995 2001 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG IS RELEASED THE NINTENDO 64 IS RELEASED THE SEGA GENESIS IS RELEASED IN NORTH AMERICA NINTENDO RELEASES GAME BOY SONY RELEASES THE PLAYSTATION 1 MICROSOFT RELEASES THE XBOX source: listamaze.com Atari 2600 Atari Pong Video Game Timeline The History of Gaming Believe it or not, Pong wasn’t the first video game, and neither was Computer Space, the arcade game that was released in 1970. To find the first video game, we need to go all the way back to 1958. In fact, it actually has ties to the Manhattan Project. Before physicist William Higinbotham worked for the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, he served as the head of the electronics division on the Manhattan Project. But it was at the Brookhaven National Laboratory where Higinbotham developed Tennis for Two. Similar to 1972’s Pong, the game was played with two controllers and two players would twist the knobs back and forth to hit the “ball” - a small point of light - over the line that represented the net.
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