"Tennis for Two", William Higanbotham, 1958
Magnavox Odyssey, Ralph Baer, 1971
Pong, Allen Alcorn, 1972
Space Invaders, Tomohiro Nishikado, 1978
-First video game was a primitive version of tennis featuring moving dots, created by William Higanbothom.
-By 1966 Television was in every home, this created a buisness opportunity to attach gadets to the Television and created an early version of pong the first gaming system called odyssey 1971.
-1972 Nolan Bushnel used $500 to start his own company Atari, first game enhanced version of Pong and gave the game it’s name.
-Star wars came out ,Space invaders came out 1 year later, first game to introduce a high score.
-Pac Man created by Namco, first time a character was a star of a video game.
-1889 Nintendo came out, 1980 created a game with a story called “Stubborn Gorilla” or Donkey Kong
-Four of Atari’s top developers created own company Activision.
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