A JOURNEY THROUGH VIDEO GAMES HISTORY
1960 APRIL
Sega is founded by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart and is initially known as Nihon Goraku Bussan.
1961
A Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1 is installed at MIT. The minicomputer catches the attention of all, including one Steve Russell.
1961 FEBRUARY
William George Daly Jr submits a thesis to MIT of a computer program based on Qubic (3D Tic Tac Toe) for the TX-0.
1962
Sega publishes an electromechanical game called Punching Bag. It promises operators to be ‘time-tested’ for proven top profits.
1962
This year also sees Elwro engineer, Witold Podgórski create the mainframe puzzle game, Marienbad (an adaptation of Nim) for the Odra 1003.
1962 APRIL
Spacewar! is created by Steve Russell at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology. It’s for the institute’s PDP-1.
1964
The PDP-7 is added to Digital Equipment Corporation’s range of computers. A total of 120 systems are sold – big numbers back then!
1964 APRIL
IBM announces the first of its computer family, the IBM System/360. It will go into production next year.
1964 MAY
John G Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz create the programming language BASIC at Dartmouth College.
1965
Namco releases an electromechanical game called Periscope in Japan. It is actually designed by Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Namco.
1965 MARCH
The PDP-8 minicomputer is released by Digital Equipment Corporation. Its chief engineer is Edson De Castro.
1966
Nintendo releases the Ultra Hand. The device itself is created by Gunpei Yokoi,
