Using what you have learned so far in this course as well as through online research, list your findings in a table that maps out the course of video game history in chronological order from its beginnings to the current scenario. The first two rows have been filled for you. Chronicle the following types of events: popular video game launches
contributions of important game industry figures
yearly sales of video game devices and titles that established new milestones
important video game conferences
other significant events related to the game industry
Year Event Key Players
1950 Claude Shannon publishes a paper on programming a computer to play chess. This establishes the fact that games can be broken down into definable logical steps. Claude Shannon
1955 Hutspiel was developed by the U. S. military as a war simulation, it is the first simulation created by the military that marks the use of gaming simulations to compute war strategies. U. S. military