Time line of the vidio game capsules

The two techno-geniuses built the Atari game Breakout in their spare time, and Woz says that the game influenced the design of the Apple II. During the s, Pac Man and Mario Brothers stole the hearts of every adolescent, who went on to buy the first Nintendo Gameboy in , and the Super Nintendo in Today, 43 percent of games are played on a mobile device, 31 percent of gamers use an at-home console, and 23 percent use a PC.

Did you know that video games can improve your health? Toggle navigation. Russian mathematician Alexey Pajitnov creates Tetris , a simple but addictive puzzle game. The game leaks out from behind the Iron Curtain, and five years later, Nintendo bundles it with every new Game Boy. The educational computer business mushrooms with the introduction of CD-ROMs in the s, but crashes with the rise of the Internet.

John Madden Football introduces gridiron realism to computer games, making this game—and its many console sequels—perennial best-sellers.

Game Boy is not the first handheld system with interchangeable cartridges—Milton Bradley introduced Microvision 10 years earlier—but it charms users with its good game play, ease of use, and long battery life. Its original The Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console released by Sega in Japan in and Europe in The console was released in Europe and The hardware featured It was the third commercially available color The Atari Jaguar is a video game console, released by Atari Corporation in In Japan, it was distributed under the name During the developmental stages the N64 was referred to by its code name, Project Reality.

The name Project Reality came from the speculation The Dreamcast is part