Video Games Add pics. Then And Now SabrinaBoulay

1950’s 1952-First graphical computer game released, tic-tac-toe 1958-Physicist Willy Higinbotham invented table tennis for two

1960’s 1961-Steve Russel, student, invents Spacewar 1967-Ralph Baer and team create 2 games, tennis game and chase game 1967- Baer and team also manipulate a toy gun to see spots on the screen

1970’s 1971-Computer Space, first arcade game 1972-Pong released 1975-Gunflight first computer game released 1978-Football released for Atari, Space Invaders first arcade game to track scores 1979-Aestoroids released, kept track of scores and allowed 3 initial to be entered

1980’s 1980-Battlezone first 3D game, enhanced by military for training 1980-Pacman released 1980-Defender first incorporation of virtual world 1980-Atari’s Asteroids and Lunar Lander first two games to be registered in the copyright office 1985-Alex Pajitnov, Russian programmer, develops Tetris

1990’s 1996- Tamagotchi, virtual pet, released. Instant hit in Japan, selling 30,000 unit supply in 3 days

2000’s 2000-Sims released 2007-Super Mario Galaxy released 2008-GTA breaks ales records in first week, more than 6 million copies sold 2009-Wii Sports becomes best selling video game of all time, over 40 million units sold

Console wars 1972-First commercial home video game console released 1976-Faichild released first programmable unit 1889-1997-Nintendo Gumpei Yokoi created GameBoy, VirtualBoy Famicon, NES, and Metroid series 1990-Sega and Nintendo ruled 1994-Sony Playstation took over 2006-Release of Playstation3 and Xbox 2

Seventh Generation The current generation of video games Top three competitors are: Microsoft Xbox 360 Sony Playstation3 Nintendo Wii

Microsoft Xbox 360 Released in November 2005, one year before Sony’s Included a hard drive and DVD playing capability Processing power and playing capability majorly increased Has a slight market lead over Sony

Sony Playstation3 PS3 said to be a better console than the Xbox Has Blu-Ray, slightly more powerful hardware, the ability to use removable media Early versions also featured a Linux-based system Behind Xbox due to its later release

Nintendo Wii Didn’t even try to compete with Sony and Microsoft, so instead created a wireless remote control Games are simpler and less graphically intense More of a clever upgrade of the previous Nintendo consoles Not a true seventh generation console

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