Video Game Timeline

Video Game Timeline

1st Generation 

1967: The Brown Box was the first commercial home video game console to be developed  which was made by a small team with a few games built in the console already.

1972: The Brown Box is now known as The Magnavox Odyssey and is finally released and sold 330,000 units in its lifetime. Also the first ever arcade video game was released, Pong is a table tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari.

1974: The first racing arcade video game was Gran Trak 10. Maze Wars was another arcade game and was the first ever first person shooter.

1976: Atari releases Breakout, it was designed by the apple co-founders. BlackBerry has their own variant called Brick Breaker.

1977: Atari releases a video game computer system called Atari 2600, it was the most most successful video game console during its period. Atari also opens the first pizza theatre (later Chuck-e Cheese) a video arcade pizzeria. Nintendo releases Color TV Game 6 which has 6 variants of light tennis (pong)