Games

History of video games

In this part of the website we are going to talk about the history of videogames, but you have to consider that we will cover only a span of twenty years, which begins from 1971 and ends on 7 August 1991, with the debut of the World Wide Web (WWW).
We divided the history of video games in three periods: 1971-1977, 1978-1986 and 1987-1991. Each of the periods starts with an important event and ends with the conclusion of a particular era.

If you want to learn more about the history of video games, you just have to select in the summary the period in which you are interested.

The underside shows a summary of the events that led to the choice of the periods:

• 1971-1977

  This span of time begins with the creation in 1971 of Galaxy Game (figure at the top right), one of the earliest arcade (coin-operated) video games, and Computer Space, the first mass-manufactured and commercially sold arcade video game. It is also important to mention that in 1972 starts the era of the first generation consoles, which will end in 1977.

• 1978-1986

  In this case the period corresponds to the golden age of arcade video games, which indeed begins in 1978 with the release of Space Invaders (figure at the right) and finishes in 1986. During this age, arcade game reaches the peak of innovation and popularity.
  
  

• 1987-1991

  Our last treated span starts with the introduction of the fourth generation consoles (for example TurboGrafx-16, shown in the figure at the bottom right) in 1987 and ends, as we said previously, with the creation of WWW.
  

Obviously the history of video games does not end in 1991, but it continues until our days.