This document provides a history of the development of gaming from the 1960s to present. It describes the earliest computer games in the 1960s, the rise of video arcade games in the 1970s, the beginning of home console and PC gaming in the 1980s and 1990s, and the major consoles and handhelds of each generation including Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox through the 2000s and 2010s. Key events included the first video game in 1961, the first coin-operated arcade game in 1972, and the introduction of best-selling franchises like Mario, Gran Turismo and Halo.

1. History
of
Gaming
James
Batcheler

2. What
are
Computer
Pla:orms?
• Computer
Pla:orms
are
computers
/
consoles
that
weren’t
just
built
for
gaming.
• An
example
of
a
Computer
Pla:orm
would
be
a
PC,
which
is
used
for
other
things
such
as
Gaming.

3. The
1960s
• The
first
game
to
be
released
on
a
computer
was
in
1961
when
a
group
of
students
programmed
a
game
called
‘Spacewar’.At
the
Nme
it
was
released
on
a
new
computer
called
the
DEC
PDP-­‐1.
• In
1967,
Bill
Harrison
created
the
first
Video
Game
to
be
played
on
a
TV
Screen.
• In
1968
the
first
Video
Game
Console
Prototype
was
completed
to
allow
several
games
to
be
played
on
the
same
console
such
as
Table
Tennis
and
Target
ShooNng.
• A
clip
of
Spacewar
in
acNon
can
be
seen
here
hWp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1V7jBACLQE

4. The
1970s
• The
1970s
saw
the
start
of
Video
Arcade
games.
• A
Coin-­‐operated
Arcade
Game
of
‘Spacewar’
was
created,
it
was
called
‘Computer
Space’.
• In
1972
the
game
‘Pong’
was
created
–
it
would
become
on
of
the
most
famous
Video
games
in
the
World.
• Other
Arcade
games
were
created
in
the
1970s,
such
as
the
Atari
Night
Driver,
which
was
created
in
1976.

5. The
1980s
• The
80s
saw
the
beginning
of
the
Personal
Computer
(PC)
which
would
become
one
of
the
first
Computer
Gaming
pla:orms.
• It
also
saw
the
start
of
many
famous
Video
Games,
such
as
Pac-­‐Man.
• A
clip
of
the
Video
Game
Pac-­‐Man
can
be
seen
here
hWp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswzriFIf_k

6. The
1990s
• The
1990s
saw
the
start
of
purpose-­‐built
game
consoles
such
as
the
Nintendo
64
and
PlaystaNon.
• It
also
saw
the
start
of
many
more
famous
video
games
such
as
Mario
Kart
and
Gran
Turismo.
• The
Nintendo
64
was
released
in
1996
and
was
part
of
the
Fourth
GeneraNon
of
Video
Games.

7. Sixth
GeneraNon
of
Game
Consoles
• The
start
of
the
21st
century
saw
the
start
of
development
of
the
sixth
generaNon
console.
• In
2002,
Microsoi
released
their
first
console
–
the
Xbox.
Xbox
Live
was
launched
in
the
same
year,
which
saw
people
playing
games
online.
• Sony
launched
their
second
console
–
the
PlaystaNon
2,
which
was
a
predecessor
of
the
PlaystaNon.
The
PlaystaNon
2
was
released
in
2000.

8. Seventh
generaNon
of
Game
Consoles
• Aier
the
Xbox
came
the
Xbox
360,
which
was
released
by
Microsoi
in
2005
and
it
was
part
of
the
Seventh
generaNon
of
game
consoles.
• Released
in
2006
was
the
Nintendo
Wii,
unlike
the
other
game
consoles,
the
Wii
detects
movements
–
which
means
that
a
controller
was
not
needed,
only
the
movement
of
the
player.

9. Eighth
generaNon
of
game
consoles
• The
eighth
generaNon
of
Game
consoles
began
in
the
2010s.
The
first
console
of
the
eighth
generaNon
to
be
released
was
the
Nintendo
3DS,
which
was
released
in
2011.
• Released
in
2012
was
the
PlaystaNon
Vita.
• Both
the
Nintendo
3DS
and
the
PlaystaNon
Vita
are
handheld
consoles.

10. Handheld
Consoles
• Handheld
games
were
first
introduced
in
the
1970s.
• The
first
handheld
console
was
the
Microvision,
which
was
released
in
1979.
• Nintendo
released
their
first
handheld
console
–
the
Game
Boy,
released
in
1989.
• Since
then,
the
Game
Boy
has
become
a
series
of
different
consoles,
developing
more
in
recent
years.