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Encyclopedia > Timeline of video games

This is a timeline of computer and video games. See history of computer and video games for a more narrative overview of the subject. See also chronology of console role-playing games.

Contents
1 Before the video game era
2 1950s

2.1 1950
2.2 1951
2.3 1952
2.4 1953
2.5 1954
2.6 1955
2.7 1958
2.8 1959

3 1960s

3.1 1960
3.2 1961
3.3 1962
3.4 1963
3.5 1964
3.6 1965
3.7 1966
3.8 1967
3.9 1968
3.10 1969

4 1970s

4.1 1970

5 1980s
6 1990s
7 2000s
8 External links

Before the video game era

1860

1865

  • Nokia Corporation established in Tampere, Finland

1871

  • Nokia Corporation renamed to Nokia Ab

1889

  • Fusajiro Yamauchi establishes what will become Nintendo in Japan

1891

  • Philips (Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.) established

1910

1911

  • Magnavox established as the "Commercial Wireless & Development Company"

1917

  • Magnavox renamed from the "Commercial Wireless & Development Company"

1918

1922

1923

  • Hasbro established as Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island

1931

1932

  • Coleco Industries, Inc. established as the Connecticut Leather Company
  • Bally Corporation established
  • Lego Group, the future parent of the Lego Interactive division, established in Billund, Denmark

1933

1935

  • TDK Corporation established

1938

1940

  • Standard Games, later to be SEGA, established

1945

1950s

1950

1951

  • Nintendo changes Marufuku Co. Ltd. to Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd.
  • Ralph Baer, future founder of the video game industry, conceives the idea of an interactive television while employed by Loral Electronics in Bronx, New York
  • SEGA Corporation moves from Honolulu to Tokyo

1952

1953

1954

  • Rosen Enterprises, Inc. established

1955

  • Namco established as Nakamura Manufacturing Ltd.

1958

1959

  • Midway Home Entertainment Inc. established
  • Tennis For Two video game exhibited for visitors to the Brookhaven National Laboratories, for its second and last season before its dismantling.

1960s

1960

  • SEGA Corporation is incorporated

1961

  • Spacewar! is created by Steve Russell with assistance from Peter Samson, Dan Edwards, Alan Kotok, & J. Graetz

1962

1963

  • Nintendo Co. Ltd. renamed from Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd.

1964

1965

  • Rosen Enterprises merges with SEGA

1966

  • Sanders Associates funds Ralph Baer to develop an interactive television game; he creates the primitive video game Chase in 2 months

1967

  • Sanders Associates -- Bill Harrison develops the light gun
  • Tecmo, Inc. established

1968

1969

  • Konami Corporation established

1970s

1970

1980s

1990s

2000s

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