A Time Line of Video Game Histroy
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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.
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