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William Higinbotham
In 1958, William Higinbotham worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He created the first "video Game" called Tennis for Two. It was displayed on a oscilloscope -
Interactive TV games
Ralph Baer, the creator of the Brown Box, and his team created two of the first Interactive TV games. A chase game and a tennis game. They are also able to manipulate a toy gun so that it detects spots of light on the TV screen -
The Brown Box
The first video game console Invented by Ralph H. Baer, he developed the brown video game console such that it can be hooked up with any ordinary TV sets. There were only six simple games for the console, namely ping-pong, tennis, handball, volleyball, chase games and a light-gun game. -
Magnavox Odyssey
It was the very first home video game console. -
Pong
Released by Atari, Pong is one of the first arcade games ever made. It was basically the inspiration behind most other games made during that time period -
Mattel Auto Race
Mattel Auto Race was the first handheld video game that was entirely digital. It came at a mere price of $24.99 -
Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 was important because it was the first catridge-based home gaming console. -
Pac Man
Pac Man is one of the most iconic games in history because its popularity. It was release in 1980 -
Super Mario Bros.
Suoper Mario Bros. was a platform game release for the NES console. It was very iconic for it's popularity and many platform games released afterward took elements from this game -
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nes was a console only availible in Japan in 1983 before it was released in North America. It inspired a generation of new consoles with the D-Pad and front loading cartridges. -
Sega Genesis
The Sega Genesis was a 16bit console release in Japan that had extremely popular featured games like Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog serious, and Super Street Fighter. -
The GameBoy
The GameBoy was the first handheld video game console developed by Nintendo. -
Sony Playstation
The Playstation was release in Japan by sony in 1994. It was a game changer because although it wasn't the first console to play games from CD's, it was the only one at the time to be sucessful at selling units -
Dreamcast
Although it was Sega's final home gaming console, the Dreamcast change the game by being the first gaming console to ship out the box with online gaming support -
The Playstation 2
The Playstation 2 was the sucessor of the original Playstation. It's known as the best selling video game console in history. It sold over 155 million units by 2011 as confirmed by Sony.
