Indie Timeline
Category: History
Updated: 28 Mar 2025
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Created byJonah Unger
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CRT Amusement Device"OXO""Tennis for Two""Spacewar!""Galaxy Game""Computer Space"Magnavox OdysseyFairchild Channel F"Night Driver"Atari 2600Nascom 1CBBSSinclair ZX80Sinclair ZX81Sinclair ZX Spectrum"Monster Maze""Psychon""The Incredible Coneman" and "Haunted Maze"GameMakerFirst IGF"Braid""Dear Esther"Commodore 64Nintendo Famicon (NES)USA Games Market Crash"Time Slip"RPGMakerGarry Kitchen's GameMaker"Evolve! Lite"Sony Enters the MarketNet YarozeOHRRPGCE"Pong"BASICMicroprocessors & CartridgesPlayStationCD-ROMsBirth of Mouse"Flower""Journey""Super Meat Boy"Early Digital DistributionUnityUnreal Engine 1Unreal Engine Becomes Free"Super Mario Bros.""The Legend of Zelda"Itch.io LaunchedNewgrounds LaunchedSteam Launched"Fez"Adobe Purchases MacromediaFutureSplash Animator (later Flash)"flOw""Minecraft" Pre-Classic"Minecraft" version 1.0Microsoft Purchase of Mojang"Infiniminer""Dwarf Fortress" Public ReleaseAdventure Construction Set"Kaboom!"Syzygy EngineeringAtari IncorporatedActivision IncorporatedRoger Caillois' Game ArchetypesJesper Juul's Classic Games ModelZimmerman's "Do Independent Games Exist?"UndertalePeriods
Juul's Timeline of Independent StylePre-Commercial-Games EraGolden Ages of Nostalgia and ArcadeClosed-Market PeriodEarly Third-Party PeriodBulletin Board SystemsPost-BBS/Early Internet EraModern Indie/Indie Golden AgeCommodified Indie & Manufactured AuthenticityPre-Indie: No Distinction between Mainstream and IndieIndie as IndependenceIndie as Taste-Culture
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