***Stone age ( 1950-1969 )***

-Cathode-Ray Tube era
This is where it all began. Someone saw potential in some device that could project light on a screen. A man created a game called “OXO” it was a tic-tac-toe game. The very first game ever created. Shortly after came “Tenis for two”.

-Nerd era
Then came more complex machines  like the PDP-1 and the games “Spacewar” and “Space travel” were created.

***Bronze age ( 1970-1979 )***

-Arcade era
The first coin-operated arcade make first contact with gamers.

-Clone era
From this day on, all new games created will be duplicated for other computers or console sometimes even modified from their original version.

-Minicomputers era
Computers becomes more and more popular and the people take interest in game developement for the first time. Games like “Hunt the Wumpus”, “Maze War”, “Spasim” and “Zork” are created.

-Home computers era
Apple, Commodore and Tandy launch their first home computer for everyone to buy.

-First consoles era
The first console ever created Pong becomes an instant success.

***Iron age ( 1980-1989 )***

-First elite war
With all the games cloned and duplicated it was hard to make a profit in the gaming industry. Many company linked to the gaming world goes bankruopt.

-Second consoles era
The Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision are invented giving birth to many gamers around the world.

-Birth of the handhelds revolution
In 1980 – Nintendo launch the first handheld ever. The Nintendo’s Game & Watch. Little did they knew that they had started the downfall of all non-handheld computing device.

-Beginning of the dark ages
The saddest day in the history of gaming was the 19 august of 1982 when atari decided to make a game based of the movie E.T. Many gamers decided to do something else with their time that day. The events that led to the creation of this game eventually caused the video game crash of 1983.

-Third consoles era
That same year something happened in Japan, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was invented. Two years later the Sega Master System and Atari 7800 made their apparition.

***Golden age ( 1990-1999 )***

-rise of the machines
Starting from 1990 computer game developers started lunching a series on nuke to destroy consoles video games everywhere.
*Wolfenstein 3D – first popular FPS
*Dune II – First popular RTS
*Alone in the Dark – Fist popular survival horror game
*SimCity – first popular Sim game
*Street Fighter – First popular Fighting game
 
-First handhelds rebel movements
Nintendo decided to strike back with the “Nintendo Game Boy” fellowed by Atari with the “Atari Lynx” and “Sega with the “Sega Game Gear”. The computer game industry learn the true meaning of fear and make a cease fire agreement with the console game industry “We wont make anything new if you cease releasing new handhelds.”

-Fourth consoles era
Victorious the consoles continue their fight for suprimacy and create the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis and Super NES/Super Famicom and many others that nobody actually care about.

-Fifth consoles era
The console war start to gets ugly with the creation of the Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64. Sega, having tried too hard to defeat his opponents by creating a bunch of consoles that nobody really wanted, is left exhausted on the battle field and was left for dead. Atari, having put a decent fight finally surrender.

***Mechanical age ( 2000-2009 )***

-Sixth consoles era
Sega makes a comeback with the Sega Dreamcast but the Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Microsoft Xbox wound him so badly that he will never be able to compete ever again… unless maybe a miracle.

-Seventh consoles era
The war rages on and the Xbox 360 gets mauled by PlayStation 3 and the Wii. By the end of 2009 it is obvious that the Xbox has lost.

-Handhelds fight for supremacy 
Mainwhile nintendo and sony break the cease fire agreement with the computer game industry and create the Nintendo DS and the PSP. War was declared.

***Oversaturated dystopian age ( Future )***

Game over.