Video Games

Arcade, console, PC, handheld, mobile — all one medium, from OXO on the EDSAC to the handheld revival.

9 posts· 1952 – 1981

• Donkey Kong: the game that made Nintendo 1981
• Pac-Man, or the game designed for people who didn't play games 1980
• Space Invaders: the glitch Nishikado kept 1978
• The Atari 2600, or the machine Bushnell sold Atari to build 1977
• Pong, or the game Alcorn built to learn his job 1972
• Computer Space, the world's first coin-operated video game 1971
• Spacewar!, or the game no one thought to sell 1962
• Tennis for Two, or the physicist who didn't notice what he'd done 1958
• OXO, or the video game that Cambridge kept to itself 1952