*All from "The Ultimate History of Video Games" by Steven L. Kent pages xi -xvi
1889 - Fusajiro Yamauchi establishes the Marufuku company to manufacture and distribute Hanafuda, Japanese playing cards
1951 - Yamauchi changes the name of Marufuku Co. Ltd to Nintendo
1961 - MIT student Steve Russell creates "Space War," the first interactive computer game
1964 - Rosen Enterprises merges with Service Games to form Sega Enterprises
1966 - Sega releases "Periscope," Japan's first amusement game export.
1969 - Gulf & Western purchases Sega.
1970 - Nolan Bushnell begins work on an arcade version of "Spacewar" called "Computer Space"
1971 - Nutting Associates purchases "Computer Space," which becomes the first arcade video game machine.
1972 - Bushnell meets his partner Ted Dabney at a Magnavox demonstration and they create the Atari company. Atari engineer Al Alcorn creates "Pong." Magnavox releases "Odyssey."
1975 - Atari creates prototypical "Home Pong" unit and sells idea to Sears Roebuck. Midway Games imports a Taito game called "Gunfight," the first game to use a microprocessor.
1976 - Bushnell sell Atari for $28 million. Exidy Games releases "Death Race," a game in which players drive over stick figures. Protests about the game are feature on "60 Minutes."
1977 - Nintendo releases the first home video game in Japan.
1979 - Capcom is founded in Japan. Atari releases "Asteroids," the company's all-time best selling game. Atari game designer Warren Robinett introduces concept of "Easter Eggs" to video games. Mattel Electronics introduces the intellivision game console.
1980 - Atari releases "Space Invaders" for the Video Computer System. The Practice of selling home versions of arcade hits has begun. Activision is founded and is the first third-party game publisher. "Pac-Man" is released.
1981 - "Donkey Kong" and "Tempest" are released. "Electronic Games" becomes the first magazine about video games.
1982 - "Ms. Pac-Man" is released by Midway and becomes the biggest arcade game in American history.
1983 - Sega releases their first home console.
1985 - Tetris is designed.
1987 - "Legends of Zelda" is published.
1989 - NEC brings PC Engine to the United States and releases it as "TurboGrafx." Sega Genesis and Nintendo Gameboy are released.
1990 - "Super Mario 3" is released.
1991 - "Sonic the Hedgehog" is released.
1993 - "Myst" is published for Macs while "Doom" is published for PCs. Video game violence gains political attention.
1994 - The Interactive Digital Software Association is created. Sony releases PlayStation in Japan.
1995 - PlayStation is released in the US.
1996 - Atari Corporation is sold to ITS.
1997 - "Golden Eye" is released. "Final Fantasy VII" is released for PlayStation.
1998 - "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" is released.
1999 - Atari is sold to Hasbro Interactive.
2000 - Playstation 2 is released in Japan and the US. Plans for Xbox revealed.
2001 - Xbox is released. Gameboy Advanced and Gamecube released.
Further facts not from "The Ultimate History of Video Games"
1974 - "Dungeons and Dragons" is published as a pen-and-paper RPG.
1985 - Bethesda Game studios is founded.
1995 - BioWare is founded.
1997 - "Fallout" is released for computers.
1998 - "Fallout 2" is released.
2004 - "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" is released.
2005 - Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 launched.
2007 - "Mass Effect" is released.
2008 - "Fallout 3" is released for PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3.
2009 - "Dragon Age: Origins" is released.
2010 - "Mass Effect 2" is released.
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