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Edward U. Condon in 1940 designed a computer game called Nim, in which players avoided picking up the last matchstick. Although the computer won 90% of the time.

Thomas Goldsmith as well as Estle Mann Created the first “FPS” as they attached a cathode ray tube hooked to an oscilloscope display, challenging players to fire a gun at a target.

In 1950 Claude Shannon created a basic program in which players could play a casual game of chess.

In 1955 The U.S Military invented a game in which the Red and Blue team wage war against eachother.

John Burgeson Created a baseball simulation game that ran on a 1620 IBM computer.

After Dartmouth defeated Princeton 28-14, a computer programmer created the first football game.

In 1970 an American Scientist created a game in which overcrowded cells would die while others reproduced. Beautiful patterns would soon to emerge on the screen.

Atari introduced one of the first console games named “Pong”.

A missing slice of pizza inspired Toru Iwatani to create Pac Man, Later to become one of the best selling games of all time.

In 1985 the NES was released, soon reviving the video game industry.

Microsoft 3.0 came with a game Solitare installed into it which allowed users to play a classic card game at home on a computer

Sony released The Play station which was sold for 100$ less than the Sega Saturn.

Was created to be a simple simulation game but later became the best selling computer game of all time and the most popular among female players.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 brings high-definition realism to the game market, as well as even better multiplayer competitions on Xbox Live.