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Early Video Game History Timeline
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Other
Updated:
28 Oct 2017
Early Video Game History Timeline blue = games orange = other early computing milestones green = other historical / cultural milestones for context
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CRT Amusement Device
Bertie and the Brain
NIMROD Chess Program (Ferranti Mark 1)
OXO Draughts (Ferranti Mark 1) Checkers (IBM 701)
Tennis for Two
Mouse in the Maze
Tic Tac Toe (TX-0)
BBC (baseball simulation)
SPACEWAR!
SKETCHPAD (Sutherland)
BASIC
ELIZA
Sword of Damocles: First VR/AR Demo WTF!
The Sumerian Game (Predecessor to Hamurabi)
First Episode of Star Trek Airs
World War II Ends
Sputnik Launch
Civil Rights Act (US)
JFK Assassination
Moon Landing,
Space Travel
ARPANET
First Year of Commercial Game Industry. Computer Space Galaxy Game Oregon Trail Star Trek Baseball (PDP10)
PONG (arcade) Magnavox Odyssey (first console) Star Trek (script game) Hunt the Wumpus Civilization (not that one) Empire (1972)
UNIX
Lunar Lander
Hamurabi / The Sumer Game Civil War MISSILE Computer Quiz
Turbochamp (never run on a computer) Machiavelli
Turbochamp "tested"
First Televised Presidential Debate (US)
Highnoon
Pool (MIDSAC computer)
The Management Game
The Brown Box
Home Computer Revolution Begins Apple II PET 2001 TRS-80
Altair 8800 (First home computer)
By this time, 89 business simulation games in use
Periods
Academic / AI Experiments
Early Mainframe Games
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