By: Becky Lerminiaux
The origin of video games lies in early cathode ray tube-based missile defense systems in the late 1940s. They made more with them in the 1950s Video gaming started becoming a part of everyday activity in the 1970s, and several large-brand consoles and games eventually became household names.
in 1949, a young engineer named Ralph Baer, was given an assignment to build a television set. in 1966 with the help of bob tremblay and bob Solomon they are ready to demonstrate a system that allows spots to be moved around on a TV screen.
The first commercially viable video game was Computer Space in 1971 In September 1971, the Galaxy Game was installed at a student union at Stanford University.
The Magnavox Odyssey is the first home video game console, predating the Atari PONG home consoles by three years. The Odyssey was released in May 1972
creation of "Ping pong" tennis on an oscilloscope screen by William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nintendo release their first computer, and Mario is released at the same time. First hand held machine from Nintendo, called "Game Boy". Tetris is produced for the Game Boy in Russia.
Playstation 2 is released. In November, Microsoft releases the Xbox 360 In April, Nintendo releases the Wii In March of 2011, Nintendo releases the Nintendo DSI
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