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The History of Video Games
By Christian Pena
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Sources
• http://www.museumofplay.org/icheg-game-history/timeline/
• Images from Google
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1940
• Edward U. Condon designs a computer that plays the traditional Nim in which players try to avoid picking up the last matchstick.The computer wins 90% of the games.
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1952
• A. S. Douglass creates OXO(a game known as tic-tac-toe in the United States) on Cambridge’s EDSAC computer as part of his research on human-computer interactions.
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1954• Programmers at New Mexico’s Los Alamos
laboratories develop the first blackjack program on an IBM-701 computer.
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1955• The long tradition of military wargaming enters the
computer age when the U.S military designs Hutspiel, in which Red and Blue players(representing NATO and Soviet commanders) wage war.
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1957• Alex Bernstein writes the first complete computer
chess program on an IBM-704 computer, a program advanced enough to evaluate four half-moves ahead.
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1963• Months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S.
Defense Department completes a computer war game known as STAGE (Simulation of Total Atomic Global Exchange) which “shows” that the United States would defeat the Soviet Union in a thermonuclear war.
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1965• A day after Dartmouth defeats Princeton 28-
14 in football to win Ivy League championship, a Dartmouth student programs the first computer football game.
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1972
• Pong, an arcade legend, is born
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1974• two decades before Doom, Maze Wars
introduces the first-person shooter by taking players into a labyrinth of passages made from wire-frame graphics
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1977• Atari releases the Video Computer System,
more commonly known as Atari 2600.Featuring a joystick, interchangeable cartridges, games in color and switches for selecting games and setting difficulty levels.
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1979• Toy-maker Mattel supplements its handheld
electronic games with a new console, the Intellivision.It has better graphics and more sophisticated controls than Atari 2600.
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1980• a missing slice of pizza inspired Namco’s Toru
Iwatani to create Pac-man, which goes on sale in July 1980.
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1981• Video game fans go crazy over Nintendo’s
Donkey Kong, featuring a character that would become world-famous, Jumpman, better known as Mario.
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1984• Russian mathematician Alexey Pajitnov
creates Tetris.
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1985• The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
revives an ailing Unites States video game industry two years after the Nintendo Corporation released it in Japan as Famicom.
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1989• Nintendo’s Game Boy popularizes handheld
gaming.
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1991• Sega needs an iconic hero for its Genesis
system and finds it in Sonic the Hedgehog.
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1994• Blizzard releases Warcraft
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1995• Sony releases PlayStation in the United States.
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2001• Microsoft enters the video game market with
Xbox.
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2003• Valve energizes PC gaming with its release of
Steam.
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2004• Nintendo maintains its dominance of the
handheld market with the Nintendo DS.
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2005• Microsoft’s Xbox 360 brings high-definition
realism to the game market.
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2007• Rock Band is Harmonix’s new hit title
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2009• Social games like Farmville and mobile games
like Angry Birds shake up the games industry.
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2010• Swedish developer Markus Persson creates
the popular game known as Minecraft.
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2011• Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure becomes the
first augmented-reality hit by letting players place plastic figures on a Portal of Power to zap characters into the game.
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2013• Gone Home, and The Last of Us, usher in a new
wave of mature video game stories that confront players with tough emotional choices in ethically complex worlds.
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The End