Video Game History

1958	Physicist Willy Higinbotham invents the first "video game" at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. His game, a table tennis-like game, was played on an oscilloscope.

1961	Steve Russell, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), creates Spacewar, the first interactive computer game. It runs on a Digital PDP-1 mainframe computer, and the graphics are made up of ASCII text characters.

1967	Baer and team are successful in creating two interactive TV games—a chase game and a tennis game. They are also able to manipulate a toy gun so that it detects spots of light on the TV screen.

Top 3 Most Popular Online Games

1. League of Legends
2. World Of Warcraft
3. DOTA 2

Console Games

1. Super Mario Bros.
2. Tetris
3. Pack-Man

Handheld Games

1. Nintendo 3DS
2. Nintendo 2DS
3. Nintendo DSI

Spacewar- first interactive computer game

Super Mario Bros for Wii