Essay About Nintendo Release And First Videogame

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 Nintendos Mario.
1994 – Sony releases the Playstation in Japan.
1996 – Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64
1999 – Dreamcast comes out.