Beginning...

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1958-tennis for two

1962-spacewar

First generation of home consoles (1972–1978)

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1972-The Magnavox Odyssey, the very first video game console

1972-Pong was the first arcade game to ever receive universal acclaim.

1976 -Colossal Cave Adventure(text adventure game

Second generation consoles (1976–1982)

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Golden age of arcade video games (1978–1982)

1978-space invaders

1979-Intellivision was a home console system

1979-the first handheld system, Microvision.

1980- Nintendo released its Game & Watch

1980-pac man

1981-donkey kong

1982-A Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer

Third generation consoles (1983–1995) (8-bit)

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1983-Nintendo Entertainment System(NES)(Nintendo's Family Computer ("Famicom")) and Sega's SG-1000 Gamepad took over

1985- Super Mario Bros.

1985-high-profile role-playing franchises

1987 -the birth of the stealth genre with Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear on the MSX2 computer

1989- Capcom released Sweet Home, survival horror genre on NES.

1990- Commodore (C64GS )and Amstrad (GX4000) entered the console market

Fourth generation consoles (1987–2004) (16-bit)

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1987-TurboGrafx-16, the first commercial 16-bit game system.

1990- Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES),

1990-CD-ROM drives were introduced in this generation,

1990-3D graphics entered the mainstream

1989- Nintendo's Game Boy

1991- Sonic the Hedgehog, rivaled Nintendo's Mario franchise, starting the so-called "console war."

1991-the Atari Lynx, Sega's Game Gear and NEC's Turbo Express

1992-3D computer graphics using polygons games Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter

1994-rising of violent games(Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, and Doom)

1996-interactive and first person games

1996 -Quake game initiated play over the Internet in first-person shooters.

1996 -Developments in web browser plug-ins like Java and Adobe Flash allowed for simple browser-based games.

Fifth generation consoles (1993–2005) (32- and 64-bit)

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1995- the Sega Saturn, the Sony PlayStation(PS ONE), and the PC-FX

1995- Virtual Boy from Nintendo, console capable of displaying stereoscopic "3D" graphics

1996- Super Mario 64, became a defining title for 3D platformer games.

1997-GoldenEye 007, the first major first-person shooter that was exclusive to a console

1997 -Nokia installed Snake onto its mobile phones (Nokia 6110)

1998 -The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) for the Nintendo 64 is still the highest ranked game across all platforms on video game

1999 -Counter-Strike created as a mod (user-created modifications) for Half-Life

Sixth generation consoles (1998–2013)

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1998 -Sega Dreamcast

2000 -Sony's PlayStation 2 (PS2)

2001 - Microsoft developed their first gaming console(XBOX) and online gaming service called Xbox Live

2001 -Grand Theft Auto III, popularizing open world games

2001 -The Game Boy Advance

2001-the appeal of mobile phone gaming.

2005 -smartphone by Nokia

2007 - the iPhone by Apple

2009 -angry bird

Seventh generation consoles (2004–present)

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2004 - handheld consoles, as Nintendo DS and Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP)

2005 - Xbox 360

2006 - PlayStation 3

2006 -wii and wii remote

2009 - cloud computing services were announced targeted at video games

2010 - Xbox 360 console referred to as the Xbox 360 S

2010 - PlayStation Move controllers

Eighth generation consoles (2012–present)

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2011 - Nintendo 3DS

2011 - the PlayStation Vita

2011 - Wii U is a video game console from Nintendo

2012 - Orgin of Oculus

2013 - PlayStation 4

2013 - Xbox One

2014 -Google Cardboard

2016-pokemon go, popular Augumented Reality game

2016 - PlayStation VR headset

2017 - Nintendo Switch

2019 - Google Stadia (google’s cloud gaming platform)

Upcoming developments...

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• Haptic Gloves
• Haptic Bodysuits
• Eyeball tracking VR headsets

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