List of years in video games
This is a chronological list of years in video games that indexes the years in video games pages. Years are annotated with significant events in the history of video games.
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1970s
- 1970 in video games
- 1971 in video games – Computer Space, the first public arcade game, is released.[1]
- 1972 in video games
- The Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console, is released.[2]
- The first Pong arcade is made available.[1]
- 1973 in video games
- 1974 in video games – Maze War and Spasim are released as the first first-person shooter games.[3]
- 1975 in video games
- 1976 in video games
- 1977 in video games – The Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) is released as the first widely popular home video game console.[4]
- 1978 in video games – Space Invaders is released, popularizing video games among the general public, beginning the golden age of arcade video games.[5]
- 1979 in video games
1980s
- 1980 in video games
- 1981 in video games
- 1982 in video games
- 1983 in video games
- The Famicom, the first console by Nintendo, is released in Japan.[6]
- The video game crash of 1983, the most prominent video game crash, takes place.[7]
- 1984 in video games
- 1985 in video games – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released as an international version of the Famicom.[8]
- 1986 in video games
- 1987 in video games
- 1988 in video games
- 1989 in video games – The TurboGrafx-16 and the Sega Genesis released as the first home video game consoles in the United States with 16-bit graphics.[9]
1990s
- 1990 in video games – Nintendo releases the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan, preceding a worldwide release over the following years.[10]
- 1991 in video games
- 1992 in video games
- 1993 in video games
- 1994 in video games – Sony releases its first video game console, the PlayStation.[11]
- 1995 in video games
- 1996 in video games – Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64.[12]
- 1997 in video games
- 1998 in video games
- 1999 in video games
2000s
- 2000 in video games
- 2001 in video games – Microsoft releases its first video game console, the Xbox.[13]
- 2002 in video games
- 2003 in video games
- 2004 in video games
- 2005 in video games
- 2006 in video games
- 2007 in video games
- 2008 in video games
- 2009 in video games
2010s
References
- Lowood, Henry (2009). "Videogames in Computer Space: The Complex History of Pong". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 31 (3): 5–19. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2009.53. ISSN 1058-6180. S2CID 7653073.
- "Magnavox Odyssey Video Game Unit, 1972". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
- Wolf, Mark J. P. (2012). "BattleZone and the Origins of First-Person Shooting Games". In Voorhees, Gerald A.; Whitlock, Katie; Call, Joshua (eds.). Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9781441146267.
- Wolf, Mark J. P. (2012). Encyclopedia of Video Games: M-Z. Greenwood. pp. 52–53.
- Northfield, R. (2018-08-01). "Gaming's golden age". Engineering & Technology. 13 (7): 30–33. doi:10.1049/et.2018.0702. ISSN 1750-9637. S2CID 117377706.
- Wolf, Mark J. P. (1 May 2015). Video Games Around the World. MIT Press. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-262-52716-3.
- Ernkvist, Mirko (2008). Down Many Times, but Still Playing the Game: Creative Destruction and Industry Crashes in the Early Video Game Industry 1971-1986 (Report). Retrieved 2022-11-23.
- Kohler, Chris. "Oct. 18, 1985: Nintendo Entertainment System Launches". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- Schilling, Melissa A. (2003). "Technological Leapfrogging: Lessons from the U.S. Video Game Console Industry". California Management Review. 45 (3): 6–32. doi:10.2307/41166174. ISSN 0008-1256. JSTOR 41166174. S2CID 114838931.
- Brian Byrne, Brian (2017). History of the Super Nintendo (SNES): Ultimate Guide to the SNES Games & Hardware. Console Gamer Magazine. p. 4. ISBN 978-1549899560.
- "The First Sony PlayStation Changed Everything About Gaming". Time. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- Kohler, Chris. "Nintendo 64 Came Out 20 Years Ago—Here's How I Felt About It Then". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- Ackerman, Dan. "Microsoft Xbox at 20: Looking back at the original 2001 review". CNET. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
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