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Gaming History Timeline

1958 - creation of "Ping pong" tennis on an oscilloscope screen by William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

1961 - development of Space war on a PDP-1 at MIT for the Science Open House.

1972 - the first commercially available home videogame for TV was launched, called Odyssey - complex, with many electronic components, and very expensive.

1972 - Nolan Bushnell forms Atari to develop games, and produces Pong, a simple tennis game for arcades.

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

1980 – Pac man is released in Japan

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". Tetris is produced for the Game Boy in Russia.

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 - 128 bit processor - is released in the UK.

2001 - Playstation 2 is released.

2001 - In September, Nintendo releases the Gamecube

2001 - In November, Microsoft enters the console market with the Xbox. Halo is released at launch, boosting sales.

And so the future of gaming unfolds and its still reaching new hights!

This might be a spoiler..for future consoles!

Reference - Google