broad timeline of arcade video games. 1971 At Stanford University, two students release the PDP-11-based machine Galaxy Game. It is a clone of Spacewar...

An arcade video game is an arcade game where the player's inputs from the game's controllers are processed through electronic or computerized components...

the golden age of arcade video games, including Space Invaders and Pac-Man, the home console market also flourished. The 1983 video game crash in the United...

generation of console video gaming in North America. To a lesser extent, the arcade video game market also weakened as the golden age of arcade video games...

In the history of video games, the first generation era refers to the video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available from...

The golden age of arcade video games was the period of rapid growth, technological development, and cultural influence of arcade video games from the...

In the history of video games, the second-generation era refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available...

inventions and developments. Video gaming reached mainstream popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer...

The history of video game consoles, both home and handheld, began in the 1970s. The first console that played games on a television set was the 1972 Magnavox...

In the history of video games, the third generation of video game consoles, commonly referred to as the 8-bit era, began on July 15, 1983, with the Japanese...

Beginning in 2023 and continuing into 2024, the video game industry has experienced mass layoffs. Over 10,000 jobs were lost in 2023, and an additional...

single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the gameplay. Video games in general can feature several game modes...

Simulation video games are a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities. A simulation game attempts...

Japanese video game industry has long been viewed as console-centric within the video game industry itself. Due to the worldwide success of Japanese consoles...

arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released on 29 November 1972. It is one of the...

10, 2015. "The Life and Death of Atari". GamePro. No. 92. IDG. May 1996. p. 20. "Video Game Timeline". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 102. Ziff Davis....

A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source...

below) is the era of computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld gaming devices available at the turn of the 21st century, starting on November...

Timeline is a 2000 adventure/puzzle video game published by Eidos Interactive for the Microsoft Windows. The game was developed by author Michael Crichton's...

In the history of video games, the fourth generation of video game consoles, more commonly referred to as the 16-bit era, began on October 30, 1987, with...

An amusement arcade, also known as a video arcade, amusements, arcade, or penny arcade (an older term), is a venue where people play arcade games, including...

arcade game of the year is F-1. 1977 – The Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) is released as the first widely popular home video game...

The ninth generation of video game consoles began in November 2020 with the releases of Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S console family and Sony's...

hack-and-slash arcade video game developed and released by Atari Games. It is one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games. The core design of Gauntlet...

extensions of electronic games using video-like output from large, room-sized mainframe computers. The first consumer video game was the arcade video game Computer...

vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game developed by Seibu Kaihatsu and published by Tecmo in Japan. The game's story takes place in the year...

mobile gaming in a 2021 investor report, with plans to transition to this approach by their 2023 fiscal year. History of arcade games History of online...

repeat: The history of real-time strategy games". Ars Technica. Retrieved October 20, 2017. "The evolution of gaming: computers, consoles, and arcade". Ars...

generation of home video game consoles began on November 22, 2005, with the release of Microsoft's Xbox 360 home console. This was followed by the release of Sony's...

scrolling shooter video game, Metroid was released by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System in Japan on August 6, 1986. An arcade version of the game was released...