The video game explosion: a history from PONG to Playstation and beyond

A Brief Timeline of Video Game History

Pt. I. Looking at Video Games

Ch. 1. What Is a Video Game? / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 2. Imaging Technologies / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 3. Modes of Exhibition / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 4. Influences and Precursors / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 5. The Study of Video Games / Mark J. P. Wolf

Pt. II. The Early Days (Before 1985)

Ch. 6. Mainframe Games and Simulations / David H. Ahl

Ch. 7. Arcade Games of the 1970s / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 8. Video Games in Europe: The Early Years / David Winter

Sidebar: System Profile: The Magnavox Odyssey / David Winter

Ch. 9. Early Home Video Game Systems / Leonard Herman

Ch. 10. Company Profile: Atari / Leonard Herman

Ch. 11. System Profile: The Atari Video Computer System (VCS) / Leonard Herman

Ch. 12. Vector Games / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 13. Video Game Stars: Pac-Man /

Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 14. The Rise of the Home Computer / Bob Rehak

Ch. 15. Genre Profile: Adventure Games / Mark J. P. Wolf

Sidebar: Company Profile: Electronic Arts / Alison McMahan

Ch. 16. Arcade Games of the 1980s / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 17. Laserdisc Games / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 18. The Video Game Industry Crash / Mark J. P. Wolf

Pt. III. The Industry Rebounds (1985-1994)

Ch. 19. System Profile: The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Dominic Arsenault

Sidebar: Company Profile: Nintendo / Dominic Arsenault

Ch. 20. A New Generation of Home Video Game Systems / Leonard Herman

Ch. 21. CD-ROM Games / Carl Therrien

Ch. 22. Genre Profile: Interactive Movies / Bernard Perron

Ch. 23. Arcade Games of the 1990s and Beyond / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 24. Handheld Video Game Systems / Leonard Herman

Sidebar: Company Profile: Sega / Alison McMahan

Ch. 25. Shareware Games: Between Hobbyist and Professional / Brett Camper

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Pt. IV. Advancing to the Next Level (1995-Present)

Ch. 26. The Later Generation Home Video Game Systems / Leonard Herman

Ch. 27. Online Role-Playing Games / Kelly Boudreau

Ch. 28. System Profile: Sony PlayStation / Dominic Arsenault

Sidebar: Company Profile: Sony / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 29. Video Game Stars: Lara Croft / Alison McMahan

Ch. 30. Genre Profile: First-Person Shooting Games / Bob Rehak

Sidebar: Retrogames / Bob Rehak

Ch. 31. Independent and Experimental Video Games / Brett Camper

Ch. 32. Video Games in Europe / Lars Konzack

Ch. 33. Video Games in Asia / Benjamin Wai-ming Ng

Ch. 34. Video Games in Australia / Thomas H. Apperley

Pt. V. A CloserLook at Video Games

Ch. 35. The Video Game Development Process / Feichin Ted Tschang

Ch. 36. Graphics in Video Games / Carl Therrien

Ch. 37. Sound in Video Games / Eric Pidkameny

Ch. 38. Video Game Genres / Mark J. P. Wolf

Sidebar: Best-Selling Video Games / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 39. The Video Game as an Object of Controversy / Dominic Arsenault

Sidebar: Video Games Rating Systems / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 40. Morals, Ethics, and Video Games / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 41. Video Games and Their Relationship with Other Media / Martin Picard

Sidebar: How to Get a Job in the Video Game Industry / Mark J. P. Wolf

Ch. 42. The Future of Video Games / Mark J. P. Wolf.