Video games have become integrated into the everyday lives of people all around the world. It’s almost impossible to find a modern smart phone or computer today that does not ship with some preinstalled video game for users to play. While the study of video games has been active ever since the video game revolution took off in the early 1980’s, most average video gamers today have never been taught how to “study” a video games inner workings. To better understand the complex video games of today, it’s useful to draw on the rich history of video games for perspective.

1. Esports in Education Course
HISTORY OF ESPORTS

2. INTERNATIONAL
STAGE
FROM A TEEN'S
PASTIME TO
THE
ESPORTS
club

3. ESPORTS
club
WHAT IS
ESPORTS?
Esports has come quite a long way since Espen Aarseth
published her first issue of Computer Game Studies. If you
are a “Digital Native” you are already familiar with gaming
culture and Esports.

4. History of Video Games
The Nimatron
Invented in 1939 by Edward Condon
OXO Game developed by A S Douglas in 1952 to simulate Tic-Tac-Toe

5. History of Video Games
Pong Developed by Atari in 1972.
Pong was the first commercially successful video game.
Pacman was developed by Namco in 1980. Developed to appeal to men and women

6. History of Video Games
Sega Genesis was released in 1988. With ROM based
cartridges.
Nintendo released SNES in 1990.

7. History of Video Games
Playstation was released in 1994. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling home
console to date, having reached over 155 million units sold by the end of 2012.
XBox was released in 2001.

8. History of Video Games
League of Legends was published by Riot
Games in 2009.
LoL features a free-to-play game release
format with microtransactions.

9. History of Video Games
Fortnite is published by Epic Games in 2017.
Fortnite features a free-to-play game release
format with microtransactions.